TTData for week of 08.04.2018 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data^67
Jake’s
Jumping
‘Jack’
“I Was Jack (You Were
Diane)” by Jake Owen
(above) ascends 2-1 on
Country Airplay with
40.1 million audience
impressions in the week
ending July 29, according
to Nielsen Music. The nod
to John Mellencamp’s
four-week 1982 Billboard
Hot 100 No. 1, “Jack &
Diane” (Mellencamp claims
a writing credit on Owen’s
hit), is Owen’s seventh
Country Airplay No. 1
among nine top 10s. He first
ruled with “Barefoot Blue
Jean Night” for two weeks
in September 2011 and last
led with “American Country
Love Song” in September
2016.
Luke Bryan achieves his
26th Country Airplay top 10
and his 25th consecutive
top 10 promoted single as
“Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset”
darts 13-10 (26.3 million,
up 13 percent). Starting
with Bryan’s second
Country Airplay top 10
(“Country Man,” in 2008),
he has rattled o 25
straight top 10s (excluding
holiday fare and tracks
not promoted to radio),
marking the second-longest
active streak after Carrie
Underwood’s 27.
Singer-songwriter Lori
McKenna logs a new best
on Americana/Folk Album
Sales as The Tree debuts
at No. 3 (4,000 sold). She
previously reached No. 4
with The Bird & the Rifle in- McKenna co-wrote
Underwood’s latest Country
Airplay (and Hot Country
Songs) top 10, “Cry Pretty.”
McKenna recently said
on Billboard’s Chart Beat
podcast of the song’s
writing session: “It was
just like another girl in the
room ... except she can sing
like Carrie Underwood.”
—Jim Asker