No concerts to report on this week, but let us look at some other numbers. Way back in Season 5, Idol noticed that people were swapping MP3s and video clips of Idol Performances. They don’t like it when they can’t wring every last dollar out of something, so they offered the same things for money […]
Billboard Update – Chart Date 04/20/19
Scotty McCreery tops the Country Recurrent Airplay chart this week with “This is It”. The song is having a soft landing. Sometimes, Country songs plunge like Icarus only having a chance to top the recurrence chart the week they go recurrent, but this one is drifting slowly down. Ally Brooke: “Low Key” featuring Tyga: Pop […]
Daily Numbers Thread 04/16/2019
Lil Nas is making a little history with “Old Town Road”. This ode to a video game repeats at the top of the Hot 100 for a second week while crushing the streaming record. The single received a whopping 143M streams last week passing the previous champ (Drake’s “In My Feelings” – 116.2M) like a […]
Monday Morning Mediabase 04/15/2019
Four radio milestones to reflect on this week. Kelly Clarkson makes a big move on HAC with “Broken and Beautiful”. This song is from the “Ugly Dolls” soundtrack. It debuted on HAC last week and moves into the top 30 this week. The songs went for adds a week ago. Pop radio features two milestones. […]
Sales – Week Ending 04/11/2019
With HDD’s Building chart at 61%, Khalid’s “Free Spirit” is rising to number one with no challengers nearby. LW TW ARTIST | TITLE | LABEL TOTAL ALBUMS TEA SEA — 1 KHALID | FREE SPIRIT RIGHT HAND MUSIC/RCA 131,500 60,780 3,431 67,289 1 2 BILLIE EILISH | WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE […]
Numbers Thread- 04/10/2019
No new concerts to report on this week, so we’ll look at the after-affects of the ACM Awards on Sunday. Carrie Underwood’s “Southbound” sold 3,000 copies in the 48 hours following her performance on the ACM Awards (up 13,878%). The Voice coach Blake Shelton also performed which resulted in 15K (+174%) in sales for “God’s […]
Billboard Update – Chart Date 04/13/19
Ally Brooke: “Low Key” featuring Tyga: Pop 24 (25) Camila Cabello: “Camila”: BB200 113 (106) Artist 77 (72) Carrie Underwood: “Cry Pretty” [Album]: BB200 171 (105); Album 64 (19); Internet 19 (2); Country 20 (10) “Greatest Hits: Decade #1”: Country 46 (44) “Love Wins”: Country Airplay 11 (14), Country Songs 21 (20) Artist: 70 (54) […]
Daily Numbers Thread 04/09/2019
Today’s thread is brought to you by the numbers 2 and 313K. Billie Eilish scores the number one album of the week with “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”. The album has 313K in equivalent album sales and 170K in traditional sales (second largest of the year). Over on the Hot 100, […]
Monday Morning Mediabase 04/08/2019
Two milestones for the second week of April. The OG Idol Kelly Clarkson is back on the charts this week with “Beautiful and Broken”. The song was written by P!nk and appears on the “Ugly Dolls” soundtrack. The song debuts in the top 50 of HAC. Normani from X-Factor US racks up another milestone with […]
Sales – Week Ending 04/05/2019
With 74% of reports in to HDD, Billie Eilish is set to top the album charts (already at 200K+). Georgia Strait is in a distant second while Nipsey Hussle is posthumously 3rd. “The Greatest Showman” soundtrack featuring Loren Allred from The Voice is at 26th. American Idol auditioneer Lauren Allred is at 39th. LW TW […]
