Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles - September 4, 2013: Cassadee Pope, Florida Georgia Line & Luke Bryan Lead Charts

Luke Bryan remains #1 with “That’s My Kind Of Night” for a third week. The star is joined by Blake Shelton and Florida Georgia Line with a pair of songs -- each -- in the Top 10, Florida Georgia Line contain two of the Top 5 tracks.

Luke Bryan has a third consecutive week of sales eclipsing 100,000 tracks with “That’s My Kind Of Night” (now a Top 10 radio airplay hit) quickly approaching Gold certification with digital track sales now over 402,000 copies. Chances are next week we’ll see the superstar break the Gold certification mark next week and it’ll have taken only 4 weeks to get there. Florida Georgia Line’s “Cruise” and “Round Here” sit #2 and #4, respectively, on this week’s chart with Thomas Rhett’s Gold-certified break-out “It Goes Like This” in between them at #3. “Cruse” has sold nearly 5.8 million tracks while “Round Here” has moved 662k and “It Goes Like This” has moved 586k to date. Rounding out the Top 5 is Jason Aldean’s latest hit, “Night Train.” The single has now sold 431k and will also be a certified Gold single in short order.

Blake Shelton Controls two of the Top 2’s slots with “Mine Would Be You” and “Boys Round Here.” Darius Rucker “Wagon Wheel” returns to Top 10.

“Mine Would Be You” is one of two singles in the Country Top 10 that scored any sort of sales incerase with a gain of 4% (“Round Here” from FGL was the other sales gainer). The single has now sold 251k and with the song still rising up the radio airplay charts, it seems likely to attain at least Gold, if not Platinum, for Blake Shelton. Luke Bryan’s “Crash My Party” single continues to be Top 10 and surpassed the 1.3 million sold mark this week. Meanwhile, Tyler Farr’s breakout hit “Redneck Crazy” sits at #8, Blake Shelton’s nearly Double Platinum “Boys Round Here” is at #9 and Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” -- which has sold nearly 2.2 million tracks -- sits at #10.

Cole Swindell “Chillin’ It” Breaks Into Top 30, This week’s Riser of the Week. Cassadee Pope, Justin Moore, Dierks Bentley and Florida Georgia Line debut in Top 30 with new singles.

There aren’t any new Gold or Platinum sales reports this week but there are a slew of new singles debuting on the chart this week. First up -- at #18 --  is Cassadee Pope with the personal “11.” The track showcases the singer’s natural vulnerability and why she’s a Country singer instead of a Pop singer (those songs simply don’t play as well on the Pop charts). She sold over 21k tracks last week. Right behind her is Dierks Bentley at #21 with “I Hold On,” the new ‘lead’ single from Riser. The single has moved 22k to date but in the first official week on this chart, it moved 19k downloads. Justin Moore sits at #25 with “Off The Beaten Path.” The track sold 16k downloads this past week at iTunes alone, giving the singer’s fans an early listen via Pre-Order to the title track to his September 17th release. Elsewhere, Cole Swindell sits at #29 for the first time with rising hit “Chillin’ It.” The single has now sold 207k with it also barely inside Country’s Top 40 of the Airplay charts. Finally, the buzzworthy cover of Alabama’s “I’m In A Hurry (And Don’t Know Why)” Debuts from Florida Georgia line at #30 with 13,000 fans taking home the single from the #8 album -- Alabama And Friends -- in the Top 200 Albums chart.

Outside The Top 30 Notes:

• Parmalee sits at #35 with “Carolina.” The track has sold over 215k to date (and is rising in the Top 25 of radio airplay).

• Keith Urban - “Even The Stars Fall 4 U” Preorder track at #36 with another 11k sold, bring sales to 23k (all pre-orders for Fuse).

• David Nail “Whatever She’s Got” is at #44 (up 15) with sales over 102k

• Jake Owen up 19 spots to #46 with “Days Of Gold. Sales over 44k total.

• Jason Aldean debuts at #67 with “Tennessee River.”

• Luke Bryan Debuts at #73 with “Love In The First Degree”

• Florida Georgia Line “Stay” enters at #75.

• Rascal Flatts “Bless The Broken Road” Triple Platinum with sales of 3.027 million to date.

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

• Taylor Swift “Red” [977k to date]

• Florida Georgia Line “Get Your Shine On” [1.46m to date]

• Kip Moore “Hey Pretty Girl” [795k to date]

• Toby Keith “Drinks After Work” [140k to date]

• Jennifer Nettles “That Girl” [24k to date]

New singles that may debut next week:

• Sara Evans - “Slow Me Down”

• Ash Bowers - “Shake It Off”

The Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (9/4/13)*

*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.