Billboard Year-End Charts-2017

[onebuffalo]

www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8062864/the-year-in-country-charts-sam-hunt-chris-stapleton

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-country-artists

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/hot-country-songs

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/hot-country-songs-artists

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-airplay-songs

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-airplay-artists

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-digital-songs

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-digital-songs-artists

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-streaming-songs

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/country-streaming-songs-artists

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-country-albums

www.billboard.com/charts/year-end/2017/top-country-albums-artists

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Pleasantly surprised how well Lady Antebellum did year end wise with "You Look Good".

[recordyear]

There are only 60 songs in year-end country airplay chart? (With repeats from 2016 as well) Wonder what songs will be added to the rankdown.
Also didn't remember You Look Good had so much accumulative audience impression...?

[Mr. Thonk Eyes]

Dec 11, 2017 21:22:21 GMT -5 recordyear said:

There are only 60 songs in year-end country airplay chart? (With repeats from 2016 as well) Wonder what songs will be added to the rankdown.
Also didn't remember You Look Good had so much accumulative audience impression...?

I think either this week or next week's Country article will have the entire top 100 for the year-end country airplay chart.

Side note: I'm really liking how this year's top 10 is more representative of the songs that were actually big hits and connected with the the public, rather than a hodgepodge of songs with marathon chart runs as it had been in past years, particularly 2012-2015.

[Marv]

Although I didn't care for the song at all, congrats are nevertheless in order to Sam Hunt on having the year's #1 airplay single as was also the case at Mediabase.

This marked the first time that one song had topped both year-end charts since James Otto's 'Just Got Started Lovin' You' accomplished that noteworthy milestone in 2008.

[Ten Pound Hammer]

Okay, how was BLaBR #1 on Airplay as well if it had such a brief chart run overall?

How did You Look Good place #3 for the year if it only peaked at freaking #4?!

[jhomes87]

Dec 19, 2017 0:37:25 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

Okay, how was BLaBR #1 on Airplay as well if it had such a brief chart run overall?

How did You Look Good place #3 for the year if it only peaked at freaking #4?!

What? BLABR had a pretty long chart run. It got to the top quickly and spent 3 weeks at #1, but then it set a record for most weeks in the top 5 and top 10. It took forever to go recurrent. Do you not remember this? It racked up a TON of audience from all those weeks in the top 10.

"You Look Good" had a really long chart run with a lot of weeks in the top 20 and top 10.

[Cody Wants Out...]

Doesn't the amount of recurrent play also factor into how well these songs do on the YE charts?

[Ten Pound Hammer]

That got me wondering what the lowest chart rankings were for bigger hits of the year.

The first year I've found where one of the Top 10 biggest hits of the year wasn't a #1 or #2 is 2005, where Montgomery Gentry's #3 hit "Gone" was the 10th biggest hit of the year. After that, Tim McGraw's #3 "If You're Reading This" was the 8th biggest of 2007.

These are the songs with the lowest weekly chart rankings that have managed to place top 10 for the year:

* 2010: "She Won't Be Lonely Long" only got to #4 but placed #10 for the year
* 2011: "Just Boring Fishin'" only got to #6 but placed #9 for the year
* 2013: "Parking Lot Party" only got to #6 but placed #5 for the year
* 2014: "Ready Set Roll" only got to #5 but placed #5 for the year

And of course, we have 2010, 2012, and 2015, where the biggest hit was something that didn't hit #1 ("Love Like Crazy", "Time Is Love", and "Drinking Class").

I still have to wonder how "My Front Porch Looking In" was the biggest hit of 2003 despite spending only one week at #1. Did it have a hideously long Top 10 run or something? That just doesn't seem possible in a year that had an 8-week #1, a 7-week #1, and two 6-week #1's.

[onebuffalo]

Dec 19, 2017 13:33:52 GMT -5 Ten Pound Hammer said:

That got me wondering what the lowest chart rankings were for bigger hits of the year.

The first year I've found where one of the Top 10 biggest hits of the year wasn't a #1 or #2 is 2005, where Montgomery Gentry's #3 hit "Gone" was the 10th biggest hit of the year. After that, Tim McGraw's #3 "If You're Reading This" was the 8th biggest of 2007.

These are the songs with the lowest weekly chart rankings that have managed to place top 10 for the year:

* 2010: "She Won't Be Lonely Long" only got to #4 but placed #10 for the year
* 2011: "Just Boring Fishin'" only got to #6 but placed #9 for the year
* 2013: "Parking Lot Party" only got to #6 but placed #5 for the year
* 2014: "Ready Set Roll" only got to #5 but placed #5 for the year

And of course, we have 2010, 2012, and 2015, where the biggest hit was something that didn't hit #1 ("Love Like Crazy", "Time Is Love", and "Drinking Class").

I still have to wonder how "My Front Porch Looking In" was the biggest hit of 2003 despite spending only one week at #1. Did it have a hideously long Top 10 run or something? That just doesn't seem possible in a year that had an 8-week #1, a 7-week #1, and two 6-week #1's.

I believe My Front Porch Looking In held the #2 position for several weeks while Toby Keith and Willie Nelson were tops with Beer For My Horses. After the duet spent six weeks at the top, Lonestar was finally able to claim #1. I do agree it was strange seeing Billboard proclaim the Lonestar hit the biggest of the year. Of course, two weeks after My Front Porch Looking In was #1, It's Five O'clock Somewhere had its eight week run at the top. The American Country Countdown named the Alan Jackson/Jimmy Buffett duet the biggest of the year. I believe the same thing happened in 2000 when The Best Day was at #2 for a few weeks while How Do You Like Me Now as tops. After the five week reign Keith had, George Strait was able to supplant Keith.

[jhomes87]

Dec 19, 2017 9:50:42 GMT -5 Cody Wants Out... said:

Doesn't the amount of recurrent play also factor into how well these songs do on the YE charts?

Recurrent airplay counts on Mediabase, which means that songs that charted early in the chart year have a much better chance of being #1 than a song that hit #1 in the summer or later. For example, a song that debuted right at the beginning of the Mediabase chart year and then had a steady rise to #1, plus a lot of recurrent airplay over the summer and fall...well, that's a winning recipe on the Mediabase YE chart.

Billboard only counts the weeks that a song was actually on the chart. Recurrent weeks do not count.

[onebuffalo]

More on Body Like A Back Road:

www.billboard.com/articles/events/year-in-music-2017/8071125/sam-hunt-body-like-a-back-road-interview-no-1s-2017