Kane Brown strolling along at No. 1. Photo: Joseph Llanes
Kane Brown keeps his hold on the No. 1 Country Streaming song spot this week with “Heaven” getting 9 million streams (335 million YTD), according to Nielsen Soundscan. Following up on that chart are Dan + Shay‘s “Tequila” with 7.6 million, Brett Young‘s “Mercy” with 7 million, Chris Stapleton‘s “Tennessee Whiskey” with 6.5 million, and Florida Georgia Line‘s “Simple” with 5.8 million.
FGL comes in at the top of the Digital Core Genre Country sales list with “Sittin’ Pretty” at No. 1 (No. 11 overall) in its debut week, scoring 15K downloads. The duo’s single “Simple” floats along at No. 2 with 12K, Jason Aldean ft. Miranda Lambert are drinking at No. 3 with “Drowns The Whiskey” (10K), Brett Young sings “Mercy” at No. 4 with 9.9K and Dan + Shay are shooting straight at No. 5 with “Tequila” (8.9K).
On the overall chart, BTS, a Korean-pop boy band, debuts at No. 1 with the album, Love Yourself: Answer. The project yielded activity of 185K (141K album only and 39 million streams), driven by single “Idol,” featuring Nicki Minaj which also debuts at No. 1 with 43K.
Top 5 Country albums TW (total consumption/album only/total song streams)
Luke Combs, This One’s For You 24K/4.4K/23 million
Jason Aldean, Rearview Town 16K/7K/9.8 million
Cole Swindell, All of It 13K/7K/6.6 million
Dan + Shay, Dan + Shay 13K/1.8K/13 million
Kane Brown, Kane Brown 13K/2.6K/12 million
Additionally, FGL’s self titled EP debuts at No. 10 Country and No. 73 overall with 9.1K (1.3K album only/6.6 million song streams).
Florida Georgia Line. Photo: Delaney Royer
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