Little Big Town’s hit of the Summer remains #1, Colt Ford places a pair of songs inside Top 30 for the first time.
It’s the single that keeps on giving as Little Big Town’s Gold single keeps marching towards Platinum status with another 93k fans clicking the buy button on their computers for “Pontoon.” Right beind them is the fast-rising single from Carrie Underwood. “Blown Away” is close to hitting the Gold mark while #3 single “Wanted” from Hunter Hayes is on pace to become Platinum next week, That’ll be a first for him. Jason Aldean’s “Take A Little Ride” is about 2 weeks from Gold while #5 single “Come Over” is on its way to Gold (3-5 weeks away).
Love and Theft #1 with “Angel Eyes” At Radio, Top 10 Digitally.
Love and theft remain one of the 10 best-selling country albums this week with their first #1 airplay hit “Angel Eyes.” The single has now moved 561k copies. Lee Brice’s “Hard To Love” is at 447k sold, meaning it’s roughly two weeks from becoming his third Gold/Platinum single while Luke Bryan’s juggernaut “Drunk On You” surpassed the 1.8 million sold mark.Tim McGraw remains at #9 for the fourth week in a row with “Truck Yeah” while Gloriana closes out the Top 10 with “(Kissed You) Good Night.” They’ve now sold ¾ of a million singles!
Riser of the Week: Colt Ford with two singles in Top 30.
The Top 30 welcomes Colt Ford and Jason Aldean’s “Drivin’ Around Song” at #12. The song, which is part of Colt Ford’s Chart-topping “Declaration of Independence,” sold 30k copies this week. The stars’ second single to break the Top 30 is the album’s lead single “Back,” which features Jake Owen. They’ve now sold 82,000 copies of that song without it becoming much of a radio hit at all. Speaking of new radio hits, Florida-Georgia Line now has a big hit with “Cruise” as they broke the Top 40 while sales eclipse the 210k sold mark. Jana Kramer’s “Why Ya Wanna is Gold with sales over 503k strong. Finally, Dustin Lynch’s “Cowboys And Angels” is only 51,000 singles sold away from hitting #1. He releases his self-titled new record in less than a week.
Next week we’ll see Taylor Swift’s new single break chart records with sales projected to be 450-500k strong. As always’ we’ll keep you in the loop!
Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (8/15/12)
Last Week This Week Artist Song Title TW LW Total
1 1 Little Big Town Pontoon 93,000 94,000 883,000
3 2 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 72,000 65,000 464,000
4 3 Hunter Hayes Wanted 63,000 63,000 956,000
2 4 Jason Aldean Take A Little Ride 61,000 66,000 413,000
5 5 Kenny Chesney Come Over 47,000 50,000 768,000
6 6 Love and Theft Angel Eyes 40,000 43,000 561,000
11 7 Lee Brice Hard To Love 39,000 35,000 447,000
7 8 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 39,000 42,000 1,811,000
9 9 Tim McGraw Truck Yeah 37,000 39,000 247,000
8 10 Gloriana (Kissed You) Good Night 32,000 42,000 749,000
10 11 Eric Church Springsteen 32,000 37,000 1,616,000
NEW 12 Colt Ford/Jason Aldean Drivin' Around Song 30,000 0 30,000
12 13 Dierks Bentley 5-1-5-0 28,000 33,000 562,000
13 14 Dustin Lynch Cowboys and Angels 27,000 27,000 449,000
16 15 Jana Kramer Why Ya Wanna 25,000 24,000 503,000
17 16 Florida Georgia Line Cruise 24,000 24,000 210,000
22 17 Rascal Flatts Come Wake Me Up 23,000 20,000 151,000
15 18 Blake Shelton Over 22,000 24,000 311,000
14 19 Eli Young Band Even If It Breaks Your Heart 22,000 25,000 838,000
20 20 Miranda Lambert Fastest Girl In Town 21,000 20,000 114,000
19 21 Josh Turner Time Is Love 21,000 20,000 478,000
21 22 Zac Brown Band The Wind 18,000 20,000 199,000
24 23 Jake Owen The One That Got Away 17,000 17,000 140,000
23 24 Chris Young Neon 17,000 18,000 230,000
32 25 Colt Ford/Jake Owen Back 17,000 14,000 82,000
18 26 Kip Moore Somethin' 'Bout A Truck 17,000 23,000 1,219,000
27 27 Keith Urban For You 16,000 15,000 334,000
26 28 Thompson Square Glass 15,000 16,000 267,000
25 29 Carrie Underwood Good Girl 14,000 16,000 1,282,000
28 30 Luke Bryan Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 14,000 15,000 2,094,000
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