Top 30 Country Feb 11, 2014 (singles) torrent

Big 5 spot gains for Scotty McCreery and Eric Church, plus new singles from Keith Urban, Tyler Farr, Sara Evans and Tim McGraw. Here are the 30 biggest country tracks as ranked by MediaBase for the week of Feb 11, 2014. Enjoy!

01 Luke Bryan - Drink A Beer (3:18)
02 Cole Swindell - Chillin' It (3:13)
03 Jason Aldean - When She Says Baby (2:48)
04 David Nail - Whatever She's Got (3:48)
05 Eric Paslay - Friday Night (2:46)
06 Lady Antebellum - Compass (2:58)
07 Frankie Ballard - Helluva Life (3:48)
08 Thompson Square - Everything I Shouldn't Be Thinking About (2:54)
09 Blake Shelton - Doin' What She Likes (3:38)
10 Dierks Bentley - I Hold On (4:32)
11 Scotty McCreery - See You Tonight (3:41)
12 Randy Houser - Goodnight Kiss (3:23)
13 Danielle Bradbery - The Heart of Dixie (3:26)
14 Jerrod Niemann - Drink To That All Night (3:39)
15 Eric Church - Give Me Back My Hometown (4:03)
16 Dan + Shay - 19 You + Me (3:33)
17 Rascal Flatts - Rewind (3:17)
18 Brett Eldredge - Beat Of The Music (2:55)
19 Brad Paisley - The Mona Lisa (3:40)
20 Jon Pardi - Up All Night (3:23)
21 Thomas Rhett - Get Me Some Of That (3:03)
22 Justin Moore - Lettin' The Night Roll (3:18)
23 Brantley Gilbert - Bottoms Up (3:34)
24 Kip Moore - Young Love (3:46)
25 Craig Morgan - Wake Up Lovin' You (3:16)
26 Keith Urban - Cop Car (4:08)
27 Josh Thompson - Cold Beer With Your Name On It (3:12)
28 Tyler Farr - Whiskey In My Water (2:59)
29 Sara Evans - Slow Me Down (2:55)
30 Tim McGraw - Lookin' For That Girl (4:04)

RECURRENT Band Perry - Don't Let Me Be Lonely (4:01)
RECURRENT Cassadee Pope - Wasting All These Tears (3:29)
RECURRENT Darius Rucker - Radio (3:07)
RECURRENT Zac Brown Band - Sweet Annie (4:23)

I had to wonder, how can a song at #13 last week completely fall of the charts this week? (Zac Brown Band’s Sweet Annie is nowhere to be found). Apparently in its efforts to keep the charts current MediaBase will remove a song from the chart once it has dropped position 3 times in a row. This is often called a “Recurrent” single for radio airplay purposes.

On Jan 21 of this year it was the #1 song, slipping to #5 the week after. On Feb 4 it dropped to #13, and this week was removed from the chart, even though technically it received more airplay than most of the songs from #20-30.

To the best of my knowledge all of the national countdown shows use Mediabase instead of Billboard data, possibly a sign of agreement that Mediabase’s formula is better, or perhaps the costs associated with using the name Billboard in conjunction with a countdown program are quite high.

Cheers,

Baz-Master