Gloriana Scores Top 5 placement thanks to Performance on “The Bachelor;” Many other country singles pass Gold/Platinum marks
Thanks to sales of 81,000 this week, Luke Bryan’s “Drunk On You” becomes the third straight Platinum single to come off of the tailgates & tanlines album. Eric Church’s “Springsteen” is about 27,000 copies away from becoming a Platinum single, which would be the first Platinum certification of Eric Church’s career. Gloriana’s single gains 39,000 thanks to both being a hit on radio AND getting a primetime performance on ABC TV’s The Bachelor program. The trio’s sophomore album will hit stores in July. Rounding out the Top 5 is Kip Moore’s two-week #1 radio hit, the 800,000 seller “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck” and Carrie Underwood’s nearly platinum Top 5 hit “Good Girl.”
Hunter Hayes “Wanted” #6 this week, leads 2nd half of Top 10.
Hunter’s “Wanted” continues to sell strongly while the single slowly moves into the Top 30 of the Radio charts. “Wanted” has now sold 319,000 copies and will be Hunter’s first Gold single in about 4-5 weeks. Jason Aldean’s Gold “Fly Over States” (and a #1 hit) is slowly moving down the chart while Taylor Swift’s “Eyes Open” is about a month away from Platinum sales itself. Kenny Chesney’s current hit “Come Over has sold nearly 100,000 copies while Eli Young Band’s “Even If It Breaks Your Heart” is 56,000 copies away from becoming gold which should be about two weeks at current sales paces, a strong number for a single that has the looks of a #1 hit.
Little Big Town “Pontoon,” lead Notables
Little Big Town’s “Pontoon” has a strong #11 debut this week with 32,000 fans getting a copy of the song in the first week it’s available to buy. Dierks Bentley’s fast-rising single on the radio charts (“5-1-5-0”) continues to find fans and has now moved 123,000 copies while Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” jumps back up the charts. Jana Kramer’s self-titled debut album comes out next week and the singer’s debut single “Why Ya Wanna” continues to move up the radio charts while also having now sold over 215,000 copies. Dustin Lynch has broken into the Top 20 digitally with “Cowboys and Angels” while the single has nearly done the same thing at radio. Zac Brown Band’s “No Hurry” has sold 200,000 singles while Josh Turner’s “Time Is Love” now has sold a quarter of a million copies in advance of Punching Bag’s June 19 release.
Riser of the Week: Scotty McCreery’s “Please Remember Me”
Scotty McCreery can thank his American Idol family for this song rising back up the charts. Whereas it sold 4,000 copies last week (to not even place on the top 100 country singles) to move 16,000 this week. Cowboy Troy’s “I Play Chicken With The Train” garnered a performance slot during Dancing With The Stars and appears on this chart for perhaps the first time as the 2006 single has sold 11,000 copies (it sold less than 200 the week before). Totals are now 190,000 for the lone big hit from Cowboy Troy’s catalog. Keith Urban’s “For You” rises up the charts to #45 from #54 with roughly to have a 31% sales increase this week with sales now over 106,000.
Little Big Town’s “Pontoon” moved 32,000 copies as we chronicled above and was clearly the best-selling new single of the week last week, Cowboy Troy’s song is the second highest “debut,” followed by Big & Rich’s “That’s Why I Pray” which moved 8,000 copies (it debuted at #33 on the singles chart this week); Jana Kramer’s “Good Time Comin’ On” with nearly 6,000 copies at #77 is the final new single this week.
Signles which are notable this week for their Gold/Platinum certifications include the Luke Bryan “Drunk On You” single becoming Platinum, Lee Brice’s “A Woman Like You” also became a Platinum single this week, his first ever Platinum single. Brantley Gilbert’s “You Don’t Know Her Like I Do” became his second consecutive Gold single while Tim McGraw’s “Better Than I Used To Be” became the latest Gold-selling in his career.
Notable singles selling for 69 cents on iTunes this week, “Home Sweet Home” from The Farm, “So You Don’t Have To Love Me Anymore” from Alan Jackson, Josh Thompson’s “Comin’ Around”, Kix Brooks’ “New To This Town” and Tyler Farr’s “Hot Mess.”
TOP 30 Digital Country Singles Of The Week (The Week of May 30, 2012). Numbers rounded to nearest 1,000)
LW_TW-Artist---------Song Title-------TW------LW--------Total--
2---1 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 81,000 75,000 1,015,000
1 2 Eric Church Springsteen 79,000 78,000 973,000
14 3 Gloriana (Kissed You) Good Night 63,000 24,000 328,000
5 4 Kip Moore Somethin' Bout A Truck 55,000 50,000 824,000
4 5 Carrie Underwood Good Girl 53,000 54,000 932,000
8 6 Hunter Hayes Wanted 40,000 39,000 319,000
7 7 Jason Aldean Fly Over States 40,000 41,000 630,000
6 8 Taylor Swift Eyes Open 40,000 48,000 866,000
3 9 Kenny Chesney Come Over 39,000 60,000 98,000
9 10 Eli Young Band Even If It Breaks Your Heart 38,000 36,000 444,000
NEW 11 Little Big Town Pontoon 32,000 0 32,000
13 12 Dierks Bentley 5-1-5-0 29,000 25,000 123,000
19 13 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 27,000 21,000 155,000
17 14 Jana Kramer Why Ya Wanna 25,000 22,000 215,000
15 15 Toby Keith Beers Ago 25,000 22,000 146,000
10 16 Miranda Lambert Over You 24,000 31,000 789,000
12 17 Kenny Chesney/Tim McGraw Feel Like A Rock Star 24,000 26,000 322,000
11 18 Lee Brice A Woman Like You 23,000 28,000 1,009,000
21 19 Brantley Gilbert You Don't Know Her Like I Do 22,000 20,000 521,000
22 20 Dustin Lynch Cowboys & Angels 21,000 20,000 158,000
18 21 Luke Bryan I Don't Want This Night To End 21,000 21,000 1,662,000
23 22 Toby Keith Red Solo Cup 20,000 18,000 1,859,000
24 23 Josh Turner Time Is Love 20,000 18,000 227,000
20 24 Tim McGraw Better Than I Used To Be 20,000 20,000 509,000
25 25 Love and Theft Angel Eyes 19,000 16,000 165,000
29 26 Jason Aldean Dirt Road Anthem 17,000 16,000 3,058,000
16 27 Taylor Swift Mean 16,000 22,000 1,686,000
30 28 Zac Brown Band No Hurry 16,000 15,000 202,000
RE-Enter 29 Scotty McCreery Please Remember Me 16,000 4,000 58,000
36 30 Lee Brice Hard To Love 15,000 13,000 119,000
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