Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles: The Week of October 3, 2012: Taylor Swift Begins Again

With "Begin Again," Taylor Swift continues her dominance of the Top 30 Digital Single chart. She has three tracks on this rundown with sales totaling over 500,000. Read on to see how the rest of the Top 30 did, including the debut of a new Jake Owen/Florida Georgia Line Collaboration.

Taylor Swift Remains #1 but gets there with new country single “Begin Again,” with the divisive “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” now #2.

Fans who aren’t Taylor Swift fans better get used to seeing her name peppered on these reports for the next two months or so as she will release singles from the album Red up until it’s released later this month when the rest of those songs will be peppering this list. She owns the first two slots on the chart and sold over 50,000 when you add #13 single “Ronan” to the rundown mix. Last week’s #2 single (and a recent airply #1 hit), Hunter Hayes’ “Wanted” slides to #3 and has nearly sold 1.5 million singles. A newly minted Gold single sits at #4 as “Cruise” from Florida Georgia Line continues its forward momentum and we have no doubts it’ll soon be a Platinum (or more) single. We’ve always felt that way. Carrie Underwood has the #5 best-selling country single with the soon to be Platinum “Blown Away.” 

Jake Owen Debuts In Top 10 with "Summer Jam" Collabo w/FGL

Little Big Town’s hit of the summer, “Pontoon” sits at #6 this week while This week’s airplay chart-topper, Jason Aldean’s “Take A Little Ride” sits at #7. Lee Brice is at #8 with “Hard To Love.” Jake Owen’s “Summer Jam,” a song written by Florida Georgia Line and featuring the duo, debuts at #9 and it’s from the Endless Summer EP. Luke Bryan rounds out the Top 10 with "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye."

Riser Of The Week: Randy Houser “How Country Feels”

Randy Houser continues to see his career on the upswing again with “How Country Feels” continuing to reel in fans as it moves past the 100,000 copies sold mark while also rising seven slots on the Digital chart (to #23) this week. Justin Moore is also seeing positive sales response to his latest hit “Til My Last Day” while Kip Moore debuts in the Top 30 with his sophomore radio hit “Beer Money.” Outside of the two brand new singles, “Beer Money” is the only new single to this week’s rundown. 

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

Dierks Bentley’s “5150”, Randy Houser’s “Anything Goes” and Lady Antebellum’s “Wanted You More.” 

New singles likely to debut next week:

Gary Allan - “Every Storm Runs Out Of Rain”
Taylor Swift - “Red”
Brad Paisley - “Southern Comfort Zone”
Faith Hill - “American Heart”
Craig Campbell - “Outta My Head.”

 

Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (10/3/12)*

*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.

 

LW TW Artist Song Title TW LW Total

NEW 1 Taylor Swift Begin Again 299,000 0 299,000

1 2 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting Back... 169,000 196,000 2,058,000

2 3 Hunter Hayes Wanted 75,000 91,000 1,454,000

5 4 Florida Georgia Line Cruise 63,000 60,000 527,000

3 5 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 62,000 76,000 942,000

4 6 Little Big Town Pontoon 44,000 63,000 1,368,000

6 7 Jason Aldean Take A Little Ride 41,000 47,000 766,000

7 8 Lee Brice Hard To Love 35,000 39,000 719,000

NEW 9 Jake Owen/Florida Georgia Line Summer Jam 35,000 0 35,000

9 10 Luke Bryan Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 32,000 37,000 263,000

10 11 Dustin Lynch Cowboys and Angels 28,000 30,000 666,000

11 12 Taylor Swift Ronan 26,000 30,000 383,000

8 13 Rascal Flatts Come Wake Me Up 26,000 37,000 346,000

13 14 Tim McGraw Truck Yeah 24,000 27,000 458,000

15 15 Eric Church Creepin' 23,000 24,000 232,000

16 16 Jake Owen The One That Got Away 21,000 21,000 275,000

12 17 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 19,000 27,000 1,986,000

14 18 Eric Church Springsteen 18,000 24,000 1,778,000

21 19 Jana Kramer Why You Wanna 16,000 18,000 646,000

17 20 Kenny Chesney Come Over 15,000 19,000 962,000

18 21 Miranda Lambert Fastest Girl In Town 15,000 19,000 245,000

27 22 Justin Moore Til My Last Day 15,000 14,000 127,000

30 23 Randy Houser How Country Feels 15,000 12,000 102,000

24 24 Brantley Gilbert Kick It In the Sticks 14,000 16,000 411,000

22 25 Easton Corbin Lovin' You Is Fun 14,000 16,000 327,000

34 26 Kip Moore Beer Money 14,000 11,000 81,000

20 27 Luke Bryan Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 13,000 19,000 2,187,000

23 28 Josh Turner Time Is Love 12,000 16,000 599,000

29 29 Blake Shelton Over 11,000 19,000 435,000

26 30 Love and Theft Angel Eyes 11,000 154,000 730,000

 

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