Darius Rucker scores his first ever Rougstock/SoundScan Top 30 Digital Singles Chart #1 with “Wagon Wheel.” Miranda and FGL Sell Gold with latest singles!
With 75,000 singles sold, Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” has become the best-selling country music single in all of America. If Darius keeps sales in the same 75,000 range, he’ll have his first Gold single in a couple of years with “Wagon Wheel.” Blake Shelton - who spent weeks at #1 with “Sure Be Cool If You Did” just released Based On A True Story... to market and we fully expect quite a few of those tracks to make their way up this chart next week. This tune seems to be on its way to an eventual Platinum sales certification (it’s 217k away which would mean 5-6 weeks at 50,000-40,000 singles sold per week). #3 is Blake’s wife Miranda Lambert with her latest Gold-selling single “Mama’s Broken Heart.” She had a string of six Gold or Platinum-selling singles in a row before last single “Fastest Girl In Town” failed to cross that threshold (yet) but “Mama’s Broken Heart” has sold remarkably well, especially for a fourth single from a nearly two year old album. Lady Antebellum’s “Downtown” -- the lead single from Golden -- has now sold 371,000 copies in seven weeks on the charts while Florida Georgia Line’s “Get Your Shine On” was certified last week by the RIAA for 500,000 singles sold, just as it passed the sales mark.
Top 10 Welcomes George Strait and Kacey Musgraves. “Highway Don’t Care” Leads second Half of Top 10.
Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift’s “Highway Don’t Care” (which features Keith Urban on guitar) is already making waves at both radio and on this Top 30 Digital Singles Chart with sales now at 271k and rising with the track officially announced as McGraw and Swift’s latest single (after both of their recent hits hit #1). Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” has now sold nearly 2.25 Million just as the track gets remixed by rapper Nelly (due to be released next week). Kenny Chesney’s “Pirate Flag” is at #8 this week with nearly 250,000 copies downloaded while George Strait’s latest single “Give It All We Got Tonight” is up 8% in sales this week and will certainly surpass the Gold sales mark in the next couple of weeks as it currently sits at nearly 440k sold while sitting at #11 on the radio airplay charts. The track would be his first Gold-selling single since 2008’s “Troubadour” (hits between then and now include “River Of Love,” “I Gotta Get To You” and “Here For A Good Time”). Sitting at #10 is Kacey Musgraves with her first Top 10 Country Airplay hit “Merry Go ‘Round.” The single has sold 580,000 tracks to date and helped push Same Trailer Different Park to a #1 country chart debut, remarkable for any new artist, let alone a female artist.
Justin Moore Debuts On Chart With “Point At You,” Risers of Week include Jason Aldean, Jake Owen and Eric Church. Tyler Farr and Brett Eldredge Fast Rising Outside Top 30.
Thompson Square are among the top rising singles of the week as “If I Didn’t Have You” has surpassed the Gold-sales mark with 405,000 now sold. The husband and wife duo’s sophomore album Just Feels Good hit stores this week. The only new debut single of this week’s chart is Justin Moore’s “Point At You.” The single sold 23,000 copies in its first week at digital retail. Right behind Justin Moore in our rundown is Eric Curch with his latest hit “Like Jesus Does,” up 11 percent over last week while Jason Aldean’s “1994” is up over the 100k sold mark with a 25% sales incerase. His video with it’s cavalcade of guest stars should help the single’s sales while Hunter Hayes’ “Somebody’s Heartbreak” has moved over 660,000 copies. Kip Moore’s “Hey Pretty Girl” is up 17% this week while Jake Owen’s “Anywhere With You gained sales at a 31% increase! Carrie Underwood also surpassed Double Platinum sales certification levels for "Blown Away." It's her first Multi-Platinum single since 2006's "Before He Cheats" (though all the singles are Gold or Platinum and #1 or #2 Airplay hits).
Outside the Top 30 Brett Eldredge’s “Don’t Ya” (which hit the radio airplay Top 30 this week, making it his second song to do so after 2010’s “Raymond”). He’s now sold 69,000 copies of the single and as it continues to perform in the Top 30, sales are bound to continue to rival this week’s 32% sales increase. Dustin Lynch’s “She Cranks My Tractor” continues to move copies while Tyler Farr’s “Redneck Crazy” sells remarkably well for a single not even Top 40 on radio airplay yet.
Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:
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Jason Aldean - “The Only Way I Know”
New singles that may debut next week:
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Tracks from Blake Shelton’s “Based On A True Story...”
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Tracks From Thompson Square’s “Just Feels Good”
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“Hush Hush” from Pistol Annies
Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (3/27/13)*
*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.
LW 2 1 2 4 3 6 9 7 14 18 13 9 12 15 19 15 11 00 21 23 17 24 29 20 16 22 25 26 28 30 |
TW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 |
Artist Darius Rucker Blake Shelton Miranda Lambert Lady Antebellum FloridaGeorgiaLine T.McGraw/T.Swift FloridaGeorgiaLine Kenny Chesney George Strait Kacey Musgraves Lee Brice Hunter Hayes Carrie Underwood The Band Perry Thompson Square Tim McGraw The Band Perry Justin Moore Eric Church Jason Aldean Hunter Hayes Kip Moore Jake Owen Little Big Town Luke Bryan Gary Allan Carrie Underwood Taylor Swift O.C.M.S. Rascal Flatts |
Track Wagon Wheel Sure Be Cool If... Mama’s Broken Heart Downtown Get Your Shine On Highway Don’t Care Cruise Pirate Flag Give It All We Got... Mary Go ‘Round I Drive Your Truck Wanted Two Black Cadillacs Better Dig Two If I Didn’t Have You One Of Those Nights Done Point At You Like Jesus Does 1994 Somebody’s Heart... Hey Pretty Girl Anywhere With You Tornado Buzzkill Every Storm (Runs... Blown Away We Are Never Ever... Wagon Wheel Changed |
TW 75,000 68,000 58,000 53,000 51,000 48,000 38,000 36,000 30,000 30,000 30000 30,000 29,000 27,000 27,000 25,000 24,000 23,000 23,000 23,000 22,000 21,000 20,000 19,000 17,000 17,000 16,000 16,000 16,000 14,000 |
LW 61,000 69,000 57,000 52,000 50,000 41,000 35,000 37,000 28,000 25,000 30,000 34,000 31,000 32,000 25,000 26,000 31,000 00000 21,000 18,000 25,000 18,000 15,000 23,000 25,000 19,000 18,000 18,000 15,000 14,000 |
Total 429,000 783,000 522,000 371,000 545,000 271,000 2,246,000 248,000 439,000 580,000 435,000 2,858,000 599,000 1,234,000 405,000 630,000 56,000 23,000 181,000 104,000 660,000 164,000 181,000 693,000 93,000 1,081,000 2,012,000 3,500,000 1,167,000 301,000 |
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