Carrie Underwood’s third single from her fifth studio album is “Church Bells”. She performed the song on Idol last week and it is going for adds this week. Not content to wait, the song entered the Country chart this week at top 40. Carrie is a superstar in the Country genre, so radio is very responsive to her new singles.
Zayn from X Factor has also found radio to be a fertile format. While his former band One Direction had to initially fight for all the spins they got (with sales and other digital fan driven methods leading the way), radio seems to be much more willing to embrace Zayn starting out on his own. Debuting at number 1 on the Hot 100 and the years of credibility building the entire band did no doubt helps. Anyway, his “Pillowtalk” made a big leap into the Top 5 of the Pop chart as it eyes the top position.
Idol winner Ruben Studdard (Season 2) was another performer on the big Idol finale. He didn’t perform his own song, but his single “Can’t Nobody Love You” moved onto the UAC chart this week.
Finally, we have Idol auditioneer Lauren Daigle taking over the top of the CAC chart with “Trust in You”. She’s made quite a name for herself in the Christian format.
Kayne West tops the BB200 this week with his “Life of Pablo”. The album has been out since February, but Kayne’s erratic behaviour and refusal to really offer it for consumption has kept it off the chart. Finally, he hired Scooter Braun who has proven successful in the past in getting run-away trains back on the track. The guy should seriously win whatever awards Managers get because the guy is a magician (he also righted Justin Bieber’s ship). “Pablo” was stream heavy with 94K equivalent albums and just 28K in pure album sales. The album sales came from just two internet sites including from a concert tie in. The album had 99M streams for 66K SEA units. The individual tracks were not available for download. This is Kayne’s 7th number one album.
Meanwhile, Chris Stapleton has the number one sales album for number 2 on the BB200. “Traveler” saw a 138% gain to 73K with the help of multiple awards at the CMAs. Pure album sales were up 149% to 59K. Lukas Graham debuts with 59K (34K in sales) for number 3. Weezer is 4th (49K/45K), Twenty88 is 5th (49K/40K), Rihanna is 6th (48K), Justin Bieber is 8th (41K, -13%), Adele is 9th (36K, -23%) and twenty one pilots is 10th (30K, -28%).
Zayn from X-Factor is 7th in his second week. “Mind of Mine” was 1st last week and he saw 44K in equivalent albums this week down 72%.
Canaan Smith:
“Hole in a Bottle”: ^24 Country (26)
Carrie Underwood:
“Church Bells”: ^40 Country (59)
Cassadee Pope:
& Chris Young “Think of You”: ^6 Country (7)
Danny Gokey:
“Tell Your Heart to Beat”: ^6 CAC (7)
Daughtry:
“Torches”: 38 HAC (37)
Fantasia:
“No Time for It”: 8 UAC (6)
Fifth Harmony:
“Work From Home”: ^11 Pop (12); ^11 RHY (14); ^35 HAC (36)
Haley Reinhart:
“Can’t Help Falling in Love”: 39 HAC (38); ^18 AC (20)
Jordan Rager:
“Southern Boy” w Jason Aldean: ^42 Country (40)
Jordan Smith;
“Stand in the Light”: 32 AC (24)
Kelly Clarkson:
“Piece by Piece”: ^12 HAC (13); ^11 AC (12)
Lauren Alaina:
“Next Boyfriend”: 48 Country (46)
Lauren Daigle:
“Trust in You”: ^1 CAC (3)
Melanie Martinez:
“Pity Party”: ^44 Pop (46)
One Direction:
“Drag Me Down”: 36 AC (30)
Ruben Studdard:
“Can’t Nobody Love You”: ^47 UAC (63)
Tessanne Chin:
“Love Suicide”: ^30 UAC (28)
Zayn:
“Pillowtalk”: ^3 Pop (7); ^21 HAC (26); ^14 RHY (15)
Note: Numbers indicate position on the chart while numbers in brackets indicate the position on the chart the previous week. The “^” (aka “a bullet”) indicates that a song gained spins since last week.
Adds listed on AllAccess:
April 11: AAA: Sawyer Fredericks: “Take it All”
April 11: Country: Carrie Underwood: “Church Bells”
April 12: HAC: Nick Fradiani: “Get You Home”
April 12: Pop: Nick Fradiani: “Get You Home”
This is the daily numbers thread for Monday. Stats collected on Monday morning.
