Music Charts

Blake Shelton’s ‘Sure Be Cool if You Did’ Hits #1 in Canada

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Blake Shelton takes over the top of the Mediabase Canadian Country Chart this week with ‘Sure Be Cool if You Did.’ Carrie Underwood‘s ‘Two Black Cadillacs’ moves into the top 5 at #4, and Lady Antebellum jumps from #11 to #7 with ‘Downtown.’ Dallas Smith‘s ‘What Kinda Love‘ moves up to #8, and Hunter Hayes Read More

Second week at #1 for Josh Grider’s ‘Lone Star Highway’ on Texas Regional Radio Report

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Josh Grider stays at the top of the Texas Regional Radio Report with ‘Lone Star Highway’ for a second week. In fact, the entire Top 5 remains the same as last week. JB and the Moonshine Band‘s ‘Kiss Me that Way’ is the week’s biggest climber at #6, Granger Smith moves up to #8 with Read More

Tim McGraw Holds #1, Lady A and Kacey Musgraves Join Top 10 of Billboard Country Airplay Chart

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Tim McGraw‘s ‘One of those Nights’ stays at #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay Chart for a second week, holding off (a) ‘Tornado,’ by Little Big Town which moves to #2. Carrie Underwood‘s ‘Two Black Cadillacs’ climbs into the Top 3 after a jump from #6. Lady Antebellum‘s new single, ‘Downtown,’ enters the chart after Read More

Tim McGraw’s ‘One of those Nights’ Hits #1 on Mediabase Country Singles Chart

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After some rather interesting chart activity in the last few weeks, Tim McGraw‘s ‘One of those Nights’ has finally reached #1 on the Mediabase Country Singles Chart, where it really should have been last week. If you wanted to see the effects radio promotion can have, you needed to look no further than the path Read More

Swift, McGraw Earn One and Two On Top Country Albums

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Number one and number two remain the same on this week’s country albums chart as Taylor Swift hangs on to the number one spot, after being bumped from that position two weeks ago by Tim McGraw, who this week comes in at number two. Florida Georgia Line makes a jump up the charts to land Read More

Hunter Hayes Double Take on Top Country Singles

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Hunter Hayes claims two spots on this week’s top Country Singles Chart coming in at number two with ‘Wanted’ and number ten with (one of my personal favorites) ‘Somebody’s Heartbreak’. Blake Shelton takes this week’s top spot with his latest ‘Sure Be Cool If You Did’, a song I wasn’t sure I’d like at first Read More

Taylor Swift’s ‘Begin Again’ Reaches #1 on Mediabase Country Singles Chart

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It has followed an interesting, and somewhat contrived, path on the radio chart but this week, Taylor Swift‘s ‘Begin Again’ takes over at #1 on the Mediabase Country Singles Chart. Dierks Bentley‘s ‘Tip in on Back,’ a song of which the path also shows the effects of good radio promotion, finally enters the Top 5. Read More

Taylor Swift’s ‘Begin Again’ Takes over MusicRow Chart #1

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It’s been a slower climb to the top than she has got used to, but Taylor Swift‘s ‘Begin Again’ tops the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart this week. Kacey Musgraves moves to the #2 spot with ‘Merry Go Round,’ and Lee Brice‘s ‘I Drive Your Truck’ enters the top 5 at #4.   MusicRow Country Breakout Chart Read More

The Age of the Internet Meme: Billboard Includes YouTube Data in Charts

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For the second time in a few months, Billboard has made a major change to its chart methodology. In October 2012, the leading music chart authority announced it was adding several new streams to the way the charts were compiled. What met with the most resistance was the inclusion of airplay on all-genre stations, a Read More