Country Chart News: The Top 30 Digital Singles For May 28, 2014

“The Voice” Runner-Up Jake Worthington gets 3 tracks inside the Top 11 but Miranda and Carrie Underwood’s “Somethin’ Bad” dominates with nearly 20k sales lead on #2 “Play It Again” from Luke Bryan.

Miranda Lambert’s “Somethin' Bad" debuts this week after last week AFTER a performance on the Billboard Music Awards and sold 107k in its opening frame, by far the best-selling Country song of the week. Luke Bryan’s “Play It Again” once-again holds down a top slot as the #2 song this week while Florida Georgia Line’s “This Is How We Roll (which features Luke) is at #3. #4 is Jake Owen’s “Beachin’,” a song which also scanned past the Gold certification mark and should be well on its way to Platinum before the summer is over. Lady Antebellum’s “Bartender” debuts at #5 with 51k singles sold in its first week.

Jake Worthington sells tracks, could be potential hit-making star if he releases the right material.

The Voice’s Jake Worthington dominates the second half of the Top 10 with two of the five tracks belonging to him, the first of which is at #6 with “A Country Boy Can Survive,” A duet with Blake Shelton. Lee Brice’s “I Don’t ance” is at #7 but gained 7% over last week while last week’s #7, the fast rising “Drunk On A Plane” gained another 10k in week over week sales numbers to remain in the top 10 at #8. At #9 is Shelton’s “My Eyes,” a tune featuring Gwen Sebastian while Worthington’s “Right Here Waiting” cover rounds out the Top 10. His “Don’t Close Your Eyes” hit #11 this week as well

Notable Tracks include Chris Young’s “Who I Am With You,” Joe Nichols “Yeah,” Tyler Farr “Whiskey In My Water” and Carrie Underwood’s “Keep Us Safe” from the ACM Honors program.

Jerrod Niemann’s “Drink To That All Night” jumps up the chart seven slots this week to #14 thanks to a Pitbull remix (they’re selling ‘em both as the same track here). Sales are now at 759k for the divisive track. Chris Young’s “Who I Am With You” is right behind Niemann’s track and it continues to sell and has moved 271k to date. Joe Nichols “Yeah” has sold nearly 237k while Dustin Lynch’s “Where It’s At” continues to find audiences and has sold 152k in just 6 weeks. Carrie Underwood’s “Keep Us Safe” scanned 24k while Justin Moore’s “Lettin’ The Night Roll” jumped 66% over last week to #22 from #30 and is our Riser of the Week. Tyler Farr has now moved 367k copies of “Whiskey In My Water” while Brantley Gilbert’s “Bottoms Up has moved nearly 1.2 million tracks and gained 69% over last week (thanks to the album hitting stores, no doubt).

Outside The Top 30 Notes:

• Luke Bryan “Drink A Beer” up 31% with sales now at 1.1 million to date.

• Florida Georgia Line’s “People Back Home” track moves 15k to jump in chart at 36. 90k tracks sold to date.

• Craig Campbell “Keep Them Kisses Comin’” at #39 with 143k RTD.

• Tim McGraw “City Lights” debuts at 40 with 12k sold.

• Keith Whitley “Don’t Close Your Eyes” moves up 854% this week sales at 300k for iconic country song. Sales increased to 9k from 950.

• Brothers Osborne with “Rum” at #74 with sales of 26k RTD.

• Miranda Lambert at #87 with “Gunpowder & Lead.” The song has now scanned over 2 million downloads.

• Scotty McCreery at 95 with “Feelin’ It.” He’s now sold 28k tracks for the second single off of “See You Tonight.”

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

• Chase Rice “Ready Set Roll” (despite gaining 19% over last week). Total sales at 382k.

• Jake Worthington “Heaven” (From The Voice). Drops 3-32. Total sales of 65k.

• George Strait “I Got A Car” (drops to 33 with sales gain of 8%). Total sales at 214k.

• Luke Bryan “That’s My Kind Of Night” (gains 12% despite drop) and has sold 1.95 million tracks.

• Eric Paslay “Song About A Girl” down 11%. 97k sold to date.

• Clare Bowen/Sam Palladio “It Ain’t Yours To Throw Away” (Track from Nashville finale). 46k scanned to date.

• Jake Worthington “Good Ol Boys” (The Voice). 28k sold to date.

New singles that may debut next week:

The Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (05/28/2014)*

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