Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles: The Week of March 13, 2013: Luke Bryan Dominates; Brad Paisley "Summer" Debuts; Kacey Musgraves Golden

This week is another strong week of digital single sales with Luke Bryan scoring 13 tracks out of the Top 100 this week - three of 'em in the Top 30. Blake Shelton continues to lead sales while Darius Rucker moves up on the charts and Kacey Musgraves goes Gold. Read the whole report here!

Blake Shelton #1 Again with “Sure Be Cool If You Did,” but The week’s biggest Story is Luke Bryan with three singles in Top 30 and 15 in SoundScan’s Top 100 Digital Country Songs .

“Sure Be Cool If You Did” continues to sell well for The Voice star Blake Shelton. The lead single from Based On A True Story..., the track has now sold nearly 650,000 downloads in just nine weeks on the chart. Blake’s lovely wife Miranda Lambert is at #2 with “Mama’s Broken Heart” once again and the track is one of the week’s biggest sales-gainers with sales now pushing Gold (500k sold). Darius Rucker’s cover of Old Crow Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” is up to #3 on the Roughstock Top 30 Digital Singles report this week with sales now nearing 300k in just nine weeks. Lady Antebellum is at 266k with “Downtown” in five short weeks while Luke Bryan’s “Buzzkill” one of two tracks from this week’s #1 album Spring Break...Here To Party that was previously unavailable. Luke has even made a video for the track [watch here].

Florida Georgia Line Score Two Tracks in Top 10 with “Get Your Shine On” and “Cruise.”

The Top 10 of Roughstock’s Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report contains Florida Georgia Line’s sophomore radio hit single “Get Your Shine On” at #6 this week with sales now 56k away from giving the Republic Nashville duo their second Gold Single award while their other single - “Cruise” - sits at #9 this week (and was just re-mixed by rapper Nelly)! Sitting at #7 on the chart this week is Hunter Hayes’ nearly Triple-Platinum single “Wanted.” He also has “Somebody’s Heartbreak” sitting at #17 of this very same chart. The Band Perry may have moved onto “Done.” but the family trio’s previous hit, the chart-topper “Better Dig Two” sits at #7 on this week’s Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report. Rounding out the Top 10 is Kenny Chesney with “Pirate Flag,  track which has sold 175k downloads in 5 weeks on the charts.

Kacey Musgraves “Merry Go ‘Round Certified Gold; Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift Risers of the Week with “Highway Don’t Care.”

The story of the singles outside the Roughstock Top 30 Digital Singles Sales Report’s top 10 starts with Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift’s next single at country radio, their collaboration “Highway Don’t Care” from Tim’s Big Machine Records debut Two Lanes Of Freedom. The track gains 39% sales increase over last week while Kacey Musgraves debut single - a radio airplay Top 10 - has now sold 524,000 singles making it a Gold-certified single, the first of her career as an artist. Her debut album Same Trailer Different Park drops next week. Carrie Underwood is less than 22k singles sold away from scoring another multi-platinum single in “Blown Away” while Little Big Town’s less than 15,000k away from their own Double Platinum mark for “Pontoon.” Finally, Luke Bryan’s “Just A Sip” - the other new track from his Chart-topping album and “In Love With The Girl” debut on the chart. “In Love With The Girl” is from an old EP and thus has sold 113,000 singles to date. Brad Paisley debuts with “Beat This Summer,” the sophomore single from “Wheelhouse.” Lead single “Southern Comfort Zone” has sold 431,000 singles to date.

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

  • Little Big Town - “Pontoon”
  • Randy Houser - “How Country Feels”
  • Connie Britton - “Stronger Than Me”
  • Blake Shelton - “Ten Times Crazier”

New singles that may debut next week:

  • Kenny Chesney - “Lindy”
  • Sheryl Crow - “Easy”

Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (3/13/13)*

*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.  

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1
2
7
4
00
3
5
6
9
11
8
10
22
12
13
14
19
16
18
15
17
21
00
00
24
00
23
27
29
26
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
Blake Shelton
Miranda Lambert
Darius Rucker
Lady Antebellum
Luke Bryan
FloridaGeorgiaLine
Hunter Hayes
The Band Perry
FloridaGeorgiaLine
Kenny Chesney
Carrie Underwood
Tim McGraw
T.McGraw/T.Swift
Lee Brice
George Strait
Kacey Musgraves
Hunter Hayes
Little Big Town
Thompson Square
Gary Allan
Taylor Swift
Carrie Underwood
Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Brad Paisley
Jason Aldean
Kip Moore
O.C.M.S.
Rascal Flatts
Track
Sure Be Cool If...
Mama’s Broken Heart
Wagon Wheel
Downtown
Buzzkill
Get Your Shine On
Wanted
Better Dig Two
Cruise
Pirate Flag
Two Black Cadillacs
One Of Those Nights
Highway Don’t Care 
I Drive Your Truck
Give It All We Got...
Merry Go ‘Round
Somebody’s Heart...
Tornado
If I Didn’t Have You
Every Storm...
We Are Never Ever...
Blown Away
Just A Sip
In Love With The...
Like Jesus Does
Beat This Summer
The Only Way I Know
Hey Pretty Girl
Wagon Wheel
Changed
TW
73,000
58,00
56,000
53,000
50,000
50,000
41,000
40,000
36,000
36,000
35,000
33,000
31,000
31,000
29,000
28,000
27,000
26,000
26,000
23,000
21,000
21,000
21,000
21,000
21,000
20,000
18,000
17,000
16,000
15,000
LW
74,000
49,000
42,000
48,000
0
49,000
47,000
45,000
38,000
32,000
39,000
37,000
23,000
31,000
30,000
28,000
24,000
27,000
25,000
28,000
26,000
24,000
0
1
19,000
0
22,000
15,000
15,000
16,000
Total
647,000
408,000
293,000
266,000
50,000
444,000
2,794,000
1,175,000
2,173,000
175,000
538,000
579,000
182,000
375,000
381,000
524,000
616,000
651,000
353,000
1,046,000
3,466,000
1,978,000
21,000
113,000
137,000
20,000
648,000
124,000
1,136,000
273,000

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