![]() Watch and see if/how Facebook’s newly introduced Graph Search functionality plays out for the music industry. 3 honorable mention is FGL with “Cruise” adding another 72k units for an RTD of 1.81 million!!! Taylor Swift also debuts a new track, “The Moment I Knew” that took the No. Blake Shelton’s “Sure Be Cool If You Did” debuts at No. If you are looking for something new from Nashville, you can find it on the Digital Genre Country tracks list. ![]() 2 53k) that topped the all genre list and kept overall album sales in positive Y/Y territory (+4.1%). Still, there were non-country debuts from Chris Tomlin (No. The start of the year is traditionally slow for music sales since fans are are facing the reality of paying down holiday credit card bills. A quick glance at the Weekly Grid shows the slowdown in graphic terms-YTD country album sales were up 4.8% last week but one week later are mostly flat (+.8%). The holiday sales bandwagon has subsided as country album sales fell 21% W/W and Top 75 sales barely reached the low water mark of 260k. Capitol/UMG filled the remaining Top 5 spots with Luke Bryan (No. 4 position with 16k in sales giving BMLG three out of the week’s Top 4 country albums. ![]() 2 adding 18k scans and TV soundtrack Music of Nashville took the No. Labelmates Florida Georgia Line (FGL) stepped up to No. Red (49k) continued to dominate and was the only title to reach over the 20k bar. Week two of the new year offered few surprises for Music City sales and no debuts on Nielsen SoundScan’s Top Current Country list. ![]()
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