Country Chart News - The Top 30 Digital Singles - November 13, 2013: CMA Awards Drive Sales; Eric Church "The Outsiders" #1; Taylor Swift "Red" #3

Eric Church’s “The Outsiders” gained 146% over last week to bring his three week sales totals to 192k, just outpacing UMG labelmate Keith Urban whose duet with Miranda Lambert jumps to #2 with a nice 180% sales gain. The single has now sold 286k and should eventually roll past the Gold barometer by the end of 2013 or early 2014 (the post-Christmas iTunes sales boost). Taylor Swift’s “Red” is this week’s Riser of the Week and jumps from #39 to #3 with a whopping 638% sales increase. The single has sold nearly 1.15 million singles to date. Last week’s #1 single, “That’s My Kind Of Night” sits at #4 with sales at 24% over last week. The song has moved 1.17 million downloads to date. Finally, Blake Shelton’s “Mine Would Be You” garnered an impressive 102% sales increase to jump back into the Top 5. The song is the Airplay #1 hit for a second week in a row.

Florida Georgia Line Place Two Songs In Top 10; Luke Bryan’s “Drink A Beer” and Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow” Debut in Top 10.

“Stay” was looking good to hit #1 on the sales chart but Florida Georgia Line’s latest hit from Here’s To The Good Times sits at #6 with sales up 26% over last week. The single has moved 321k to date. Luke Bryan’s strong new single “Drink A Beer” sits at #7 this week and debuts there with 44k sold. The single has moved 25k other tracks since releasing with Crash My Party album but only sold just over 1k last week, giving him a 999% sales boost. Florida Georgia Line’s mega-hit “Cruise” won the duo the coveted CMA “Single of the Year” award and the song has now sold nearly 6.1 million tracks since being released the summer of 2012. Cassadee Pope’s a holdover from last week’s Top 10 with “Wasting All These Tears” now marching its way towards Platinum after surpassing Gold a couple of weeks ago. Sitting at #10 is Kacey Musgraves with her buzzworthy “Follow Your Arrow.” While it remains to be seen if the single can become a massive major radio hit, it had sold over 100k with mostly SiriusXM “The Highway” airplay alone. So it’d seem to us that the singer SHOULD easily score a hit and probably a Gold selling single with the spirited track about independence.

Little Big Town “Sober”, Lady Antebellum “Compass,” Lee Brice “I Drive Your Truck” Score CMA Bumps. Jessie James Decker debuts Top 30 with “I Do.”

This week’s entire Top 30 could really be discussed but that’d take you away from the visual aspect of the Top 30 Country Digital Singles Sales Chart so we’ll leave most of that to y’all and instead touch upon the new tracks on this week’s chart. “Sober” from Little Big Town enter the Top 30 for the first time at #14 while Lady Antebellum’s “Compass” yo-yo’s back inside the chart. Lee Brice’s CMA “Song of the Year” winner, “I Drive Your Truck” returns with a 944% sales boost and has now sold 775k copies to date. Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift’s “Highway Don’t Care” makes an apperance while Former Show Dog-Universal and Universal Records artist Jessie James Decker debuts at #30 with her “I Do,” the first single released by the singer since marrying NFL Wide Reciever Eric Decker of the Broncos.

Outside The Top 30 Notes:

• At #31 Miranda Lambert’s “All Kinds of Kinds” (160k tracks sold to date).

• Miranda’s “Mama’s Broken Heart” is at #33 (1.521 million to date).

• Blake Shelton’s “Sure Be Cool If You Did” at 37 (1.519 million to date).

• Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” at #38 with 2.413 million tracks sold to date.

• At #45, Scotty McCreery’s “See You Tonight” (10k this week, 285k to date)

• Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler” at #50 with sales totalling 796k to date (digital downloads only). “Islands In The Stream” with Dolly Parto” has sold 569k to date (digital singles only) and lands at #52.

• Zac Brown Band “Day For The Dead” debuts at #56 with 8k sold in just 2 days (Sat and Sun).

• George Jones “He Stopped Loving Her Today” at #58 with sales increase of 611%. 521k sold to date.

• Danielle Bradbery trak “I Will Never Forget You” debuts at #62 with over 7,400 tracks sold (her “The Heart Of Dixie” sits right behind it with sales now at 177k total).

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

• Jon Pardi - “Up All Night” (212k sold to date)

• Eric Paslay - “Friday Night” (196k to date)

• Tyler Farr - “Redneck Crazy” (967k to date)

• Chase Rice - “Ready, Set Roll” (106k to date)

• Jake Owen - “Days Of Gold” (152k to date)

• Thomas Rhett - “Get ME Some Of That” (40k to date)

• Billy Currington - “Hey Girl” (744k to date)

• Thomas Rhett - “Take You Home” (18k to date)

New singles that may debut next week:

• Jake Owen “Beachin’.”

• Tracks from Lady Antebellum “Golden Deluxe”.

• Tracks from Kellie Pickler “The Woman I Am”.

The Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (11/06/13)*

*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.  k=1,000