Little Big Town Scores #1 Slot with “Pontoon,” Edging out Luke Bryan’s mult-week #1 hit “Drunk On You” for Top Dog status this week.
The top five singles this week remained the same as last week with little changes except chart position. With “Pontoon” the clear hit of the summer, Little Big Town’s “Motor Boatin’” to #1 this week and it looks like they’re liable to stay here for a while with “Pontoon” moving 86,000 copies and well on its way to selling it’s 500,000 paid-download next week, a remarkably swift sales achievement for a talented yet undervalued band (until now). the multi-week #1 hit “Drunk On You” is now at #2 and sales have now topped the 1.55 million mark and I have little doubt that the song will soon be a double platinum single (right about the same time LBT’s single hits Platinum. Kenny Chesney’s “Come Over” remains #3 this week and like Little Big Town, he’s assured of a Gold-selling single next week with “Come Over” (“Feel Like A Rock Star” will hit Gold in roughly a month too). Eric Church’s “Springsteen” has now sold 1.4 million copies while #5 single from up and comer Hunter Hayes has surpassed the 600,000 sales mark with 630,000 sold and he, too, will likely score a Platinum single for “Wanted” if everything goes as planned.
Tim McGraw Scores #6 Slot and Highest Debut with “Truck Yeah”
With 54,000 copies sold, Tim McGraw’s debut single for Big Machine Records, “Truck Yeah” scored one of his best solo digital single sales debuts ever on the SoundScan Top Country Singles Chart. The single also scored a remarkable #21 debut on the Billboard Radio charts this week as well, his best debut ever. Last week’s #6 single, Dierks Bentley’s infectious “5-1-5-0” sits at #7 this week with a gain of 2,000 singles sold over last week to bring total sales to 382,000. He’s got an outside and likely shot at Gold with the single as well with only 118,000 copies needing to be sold. Gloriana’s Gold single “(Kissed You) Good Night” is next with 39,000 more copies being sold of the band’s biggest ever radio hit. Right behind them is the recent #1 hit from newcomer Kip Moore. “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck” now has moved 1.1 million singles. The song finishes off our Top 10 this week.
Notable singles include “Angel Eyes” from Love and Theft
Love and Theft’s “Angel Eyes” sits at #11 on the digital singles sales chart and has now sold 352,000 copies. Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup” gains a remarkable 8,000 copies as the song is sure to become a double platinum selling single next week (only 10k singles away). Lee Brice’s “Hard 2 Love” is next with 279,000 singles sold while newcomer Dustin Lynch’s “Cowboy’s And Angels” has surpassed the 310,000 sales mark, the same which can be said for Toby’s current radio hit “Beers Ago.” Jana Kramer’s “Why Ya Wanna.” The single has now sold 381,000 copies. Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” is up to #24 on this week’s chart with 20,000 fans picking up a copy of the independent duo’s hot single and bringing sales totals to nearly 100,000 before the song ever sniffs the Top 60 of the Billboard radio chart. Rounding out the notables this week is Luke Bryan’s “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” as it surpassed the double platinum sales mark with sales now at 2.01 million.
Risers of the Week: Zac Brown Band & Lee Greenwood
The Zac Brown Band’s “The Wind” is up 21 spaces this week to return to the Top 30 for the first time since debuting about a month ago. The single (which is Top 20 at country radio and is the first track to hit radio from just-released Uncaged) gained 20,000 in sales this week to bring the band’s sales to nearly 100,000 sold. With the new album out and the single moving up the charts and guaranteed more airplay, look for it to be a swift mover to Gold sales stats. It wouldn’t be a Fourth of July week report without the mentioning of “God Bless The USA” as the single also gained 20,000 in sales this week to bring total sales nearly to ¾ a million copies sold. Zac Brown Band’s 3.3 million-seller, “Chicken Fried” also experienced a nice Holiday sales bump to land at #27 this week. Outside of the Top 30, we find that Jake Owen’s current radio single “The One That Got Away” is up to 39 (it was at 95 two weeks ago) and it’s highly likely the single will hit Top 30 in the next week or two. Toby Keith re-enters the chart at #46 with “Courtesy of the Red White And Blue,” a single that’s a couople weeks away from Platinum sales itself (21,000 away).
Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (7/11/12)
Last Week This Week Artist Song Title TW LW Total
2 1 Little Big Town Pontoon 86,000 72,000 437,000
1 2 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 72,000 77,000 1,559,000
3 3 Kenny Chesney Come Over 71,000 66,000 494,000
4 4 Eric Church Springsteen 64,000 64,000 1,404,000
5 5 Hunter Hayes Wanted 56,000 54,000 630,000
NEW 6 Tim McGraw Truck Yeah 54,000 0 54,000
6 7 Dierks Bentley 5-1-5-0 45,000 43,000 382,000
7 8 Eli Young Band Even If It Breaks Your Heart 42,000 41,000 695,000
9 9 Gloriana (Kissed You) Good Night 39,000 37,000 558,000
8 10 Kip Moore Somethin' 'Bout A Truck 36,000 38,000 1,104,000
11 11 Love and Theft Angel Eyes 36,000 30,000 352,000
33 12 Zac Brown Band The Wind 34,000 14,000 98,000
19 13 Toby Keith Red Solo Cup 30,000 22,000 1,990,000
12 14 Lee Brice Hard 2 Love 30,000 30,000 279,000
10 15 Carrie Underwood Good Girl 29,000 35,000 1,186,000
13 16 Blake Shelton Over 28,000 28,000 182,000
15 17 Keith Urban For You 27,000 26,000 236,000
14 18 Dustin Lynch Cowboys & Angels 27,000 26,000 312,000
17 19 Toby Keith Beers Ago 26,000 25,000 310,000
16 20 Jana Kramer Why Ya Wanna 26,000 25,000 381,000
85 21 Lee Greenwood God Bless The USA 25,000 5,000 738,000
18 22 Josh Turner Time Is Love 22,000 22,000 375,000
21 23 Luke Bryan I Don't Want This Nigh To End 20,000 21,000 1,803,000
29 24 Florida Georgia Line Cruise 20,000 16,000 97,000
23 25 Brantley Gilbert You Don't Know Her Like I Do 19,000 19,000 647,000
20 26 Jason Aldean Fly Over States 19,000 21,000 795,000
22 27 The Band Perry Postcards From Paris 18,000 20,000 252,000
36 28 Zac Brown Band Chicken Fried 18,000 12,000 3,385,000
25 29 Luke Bryan Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 18,000 17,000 2,011,000
27 30 Chris Young Neon 17,000 16,000 140,000
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