It’s the single that keeps on giving as Little Big Town’s Gold single surpassed the ¾-million mark this week with “Pontoon” moving another 94,000 copies. Never has the band struck a chord with audiences, even with early Digital single favorite “Boondocks” (maybe all their hits should be one word with “oo” in there somewhere?). The last two week’s #1 Digital Country Single, Jason Aldean’s “Take A Little Ride” sits at #2 and has sold 352,000 copies in just three weeks on the charts. Carrie Underwood’s fast rising single is our Riser of the week yet again (at least in the Top 30) as she jumps 8 slots to #3 from #11 last week. It’s the first time since “Blown Away” was released as a digital single that the song has returned to this position. Look for it to be in the Top 5 for the remainder of the song’s run on the radio charts. Sitting at #4 is last week’s #3, Hunter Hayes’s signature hit “Wanted.” The song is only 107,000 singles away from selling Platinum (which means roughly 2 weeks). Kenny Chesney’s latest #1 hit “Come Over” rounds out the Top 5 and it has sold nearly 750,000 copies.
Love and Theft Score First Gold Single With Angel Eyes
With 43,000 fans taking the single home, Love and Theft become the latest new artist of 2012 to score a Gold single (not yet certified) with sales now 21,000 past the 500,000 Gold mark. The song is currently aiming to become their first #1 hit as well on the airplay charts (next week is a strong possibility). Right behind Love and Theft is fellow young country star Luke Bryan with “Drunk On You.” The single has moved nearly one and three quarter of a million downloads and should finish out 2012 as the artist’s second Double Platinum single (joining “Country Girl (Shake It For Me).” Gloriana looks like they’ll eventually score Platinum with “(Kissed You) Good Night” while their album debuts at #2 on the country albums chart [click here to read]. Tim McGraw’s Big Machine Records debut “Truck Yeah” sits at #9 again this week and has now moved over 200,000 singles in about 5 weeks while “Springsteen” rounds out the chart with Eric Church’s latest #1 radio hit having sold nearly 1.6 million copies.
Riser of the Week: “Fastest Girl In Town” Miranda Lambert
Lee Brice’s “Hard To Love” inches closer to Gold sales status as the Curb artist has moved 408,000 copies of the single (meaning it’ll be roughly 3 weeks before he’s officially Gold). Speaking of Gold, Dierks Bentley’s “5-1-5-0” recently attained the feat while also being his 10th #1 hit at Country Radio. Up and comer Dustin Lynch is close to scoring a Gold record himself for break-out hit “Cowboys And Angels” while Jana Kramer’s “Why Ya Wanna” and Josh Turner’s “Time Is Love” are only two to three weeks away themselves. Miranda jumps 16 slots and into the chart rundown this week with “Fastest Girl In Town.” The reigning CMA Female Vocalist of the Year gained 7,000 singles sold over last week to achieve the feat.
Next week we’ll likely see Colt Ford & Jake Owen’s “Back” jump into the chart while we’d be remiss without mentioning it and Hunter Hayes debut single “Storm Warning” as our Risers of the Week outside of the Top 30 for both (Ford is up 9 slots to #32 and Hayes re-enters the chart at 50 and is less than 50k away from another Gold single).
The Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (8/08/12)
LW TW Artist Song Title TW LW Total
2 1 Little Big Town Pontoon 94,000 95,000 789,000
1 2 Jason Aldean Take A Little Ride 66,000 96,000 352,000
11 3 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 65,000 36,000 364,000
3 4 Hunter Hayes Wanted 63,000 69,000 893,000
4 5 Kenny Chesney Come Over 50,000 53,000 722,000
6 6 Love and Theft Angel Eyes 43,000 44,000 521,000
5 7 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 42,000 49,000 1,772,000
8 8 Gloriana (Kissed You) Good Night 42,000 40,000 717,000
9 9 Tim McGraw Truck Yeah 39,000 39,000 210,000
7 10 Eric Church Springsteen 37,000 42,000 1,584,000
12 11 Lee Brice Hard To Love 35,000 32,000 408,000
10 12 Dierks Bentley 5-1-5-0 33,000 39,000 534,000
14 13 Dustin Lynch Cowboys and Angels 27,000 28,000 422,000
13 14 Eli Young Band Even If It Breaks Your Heart 25,000 26,000 816,000
15 15 Blake Shelton Over 25,000 24,000 289,000
16 16 Jana Kramer Why Ya Wanna 24,000 24,000 479,000
17 17 Florida Georgia Line Cruise 24,000 24,000 186,000
18 18 Kip Moore Somethin' 'Bout A Truck 23,000 24,000 1,202,000
20 19 Josh Turner Time Is Love 20,000 20,000 457,000
36 20 Miranda Lambert Fastest Girl In Town 20,000 13,000 93,000
21 21 Zac Brown Band The Wind 20,000 20,000 181,000
26 22 Rascal Flatts Come Wake Me Up 20,000 17,000 128,000
22 23 Chris Young Neon 18,000 19,000 213,000
28 24 Jake Owen The One That Got Away 17,000 17,000 127,000
24 25 Carrie Underwood Good Girl 16,000 18,000 1,267,000
29 26 Thompson Square Glass 16,000 16,000 253,000
25 27 Keith Urban For You 15,000 18,000 318,000
27 28 Luke Bryan Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 15,000 17,000 2,080,000
30 29 Luke Bryan I Don't Want This Night To End 14,000 16,000 1,871,000
31 30 Jason Aldean Dirt Road Anthem 14,000 15,000 3,219,000
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