"DAMN STRAIT"

[+sinycalone]

Did the surveys.

[Eleyn60]

Always keeping up through this forum with Scotty.  Never post though.  

 

I just don't get why they would pick those 3 songs for radio.  #smh  They don't seem very strong to follow DS. 

 

Thanks for all the hard work

[maryhayden274]

I did them too - I hope It Matters To Her is the next one

[ptebwwong]

I'm hoping for It Matters To Her.

 

I saw a conversation recently by some country fans with radio industry people specifically about Chris Janson's "Bye Mom." The song peaked at #38. Fans were asking radio people why it didn't do well & industry people said radio won't play too sad of a song. I wish that wasn't the case because some of the best country songs are sad songs. Unfortunately, if that's how many feel about sad songs on country radio I'm not sure "The Waiter" should be a choice for a single. As I said before, that is a risky single choice. It will likely get a lot of buzz because of the song, but the risk is I think this could be a hit or miss with radio.

[tfortexas]

With everyone trying to be upbeat after all the shut-downs, maybe sad isn't good right now.  The selection just needs to stand out.  Be a little different than what's on the air at that time. All three sounded very good.  For my ears the quality of the sound was better than the CD or streams.  They blew me away.   The waiter is sweet but I think it takes patience to follow the story. 

 

 

[tfortexas]

3 hours ago, buttons66 said:

PLEASE DO YOUR RADIO TRAKS THIS WEEK ..

 

DS is #1 of the 30 to wade thru ...

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ALSO there are 3 songs to RATE that Radio Traks sends out  seperate ....... I RATED THEM ALL HIGH ....1. HOME   2. IT MATTERS TO HER ..3 . THE WAITER 

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This accompanies the 3 song poll ..sorry I cannot post a link ..It wont let me 'cos I have completed it!! 

 

 

Rate New Country 

Thanks for participating in RadioTraks surveys through your favorite Radio Station. Your opinion matters and has helped shape the music you hear on the radio.
 

This week we have THREE Songs from a major Country star. Your thoughts today will help pick their next single. Everyone that completes our survey is registered to win a $100 Visa Gift Card. One winner will be selected from all that participate.

Hurry!  This survey ends Tuesday, May 17, 2022, 9:01 AM EDT.

Take your time and have fun!
Listen to this music as many times as you like, and be honest!  Your opinion really does matter!

DS was way down the list for me.  27 I think.  I tend to be a little brutal on this survey. 

[+sinycalone]

7 minutes ago, tfortexas said:

DS was way down the list for me.  27 I think.  I tend to be a little brutal on this survey. 

Same here.

 

Just think of the songs that never would have made it to radio if the current mindset prevailed about sad songs:  He Stopped Loving Her Today, When I Call Your Name, How Can I Help You Say Goodbye, etc.

[tfortexas]

1 minute ago, sinycalone said:

Same here.

 

Just think of the songs that never would have made it to radio if the current mindset prevailed about sad songs:  He Stopped Loving Her Today, Whenever I Call Your Name, How Can I Help You Say Goodbye, etc.

They'll come back.  5 more minutes was provably in that category.

[+sinycalone]

5MM was sort of a miracle, when you think about it.

[drdeb]

DAMN STRAIT / 5.11.22

 

MEDIABASE

*Pinned:  Scotty begins the new chart week at #14 with zero recurrencies (Church and Shelton have already dropped below him) and zero 'early drop' candidates! That said, Jake Owen just might become a jump opportunity for Scotty toward the end of the week.

 

2    1    CARLY PEARCE & ASHLEY MCBRYDE    Never Wanted To Be That Girl    7238    7338    -100    30.861
3    2    Up this week LUKE COMBS    Doin' This    7176    6890    286    30.292 ... poised to jump CP&AM tomorrow or Friday!
1    3    COLE SWINDELL & LAINEY WILSON    Never Say Never    6841    7797    -956    31.04 ... dropping toward recurrency on 5/22
4    4    Up this week THOMAS RHETT    Slow Down Summer    6131    5983    148    25.923
6    5    Up this week JASON ALDEAN    Trouble With A Heartbreak    6183    5496    687    24.845
5    6    Up this week KEITH URBAN    Wild Hearts    6022    5890    132    24.406
11   7    Up this week PARMALEE    Take My Name    5468    4671    797    23.09
8    8    Up this week WALKER HAYES    AA    5341    5089    252    23.184
10  9    Up this week MORGAN WALLEN    Wasted On You    5319    4961    358    22.57
7   10    HARDY   Give Heaven Some Hell   4943   5599   -656   19.28 ... -385 spins / -1.334 AI -- at this pace, Hardy could drop below Scotty by the weekend
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12    11    Up this week TIM MCGRAW    7500 OBO    4808    4608    200    19.708
13    12    Up this week MAREN MORRIS    Circles Around This Town    4352    4236    116    16.789
15    13    Up this week JAKE OWEN    Best Thing Since Backroads    4161    4056    105    17.425 ... +13 spins / +.049 AI
16     14      Up this week SCOTTY MCCREERY    Damn Strait    4211    4045    166    16.143 ... +48 spins / +.316 AI -- 4200+ spins and 16.000+ AI babeee! 
14    15    MIRANDA LAMBERT    If I Was A Cowboy    3978    4026    -48    13.275 ... +10 spins / +.036 AI
17    16    Up this week DYLAN SCOTT    New Truck    3630    3256    374    13.812 ... +68 spins / +.065 AI
18    17    Up this week CHRIS YOUNG    At The End Of A Bar w/Tenpenny    3135    2923    212    11.653
20    18    Up this week ERNEST    Flower Shops f/Morgan Wallen    2994    2867    127    11.249
22    19    Up this week JON PARDI    Last Night Lonely    2847    2636    211    10.937
23    20    Up this week JUSTIN MOORE    With A Woman You Love    2843    2645    198    10.433

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24    21    Up this week KENNY CHESNEY    Everyone She Knows    2478    2346    132    10.13
27    22    Up this week JACKSON DEAN    Don't Come Lookin'    2284    1984    300    7.893
26    23    Up this week DUSTIN LYNCH    Party Mode    2146    1862    284    7.594
25    24    Up this week FRANK RAY    Country'd Look Good On You    2295    2225    70    7.905
29    25    Up this week CARRIE UNDERWOOD    Ghost Story    1987    1627    360    7.398
28    26    Up this week LEE BRICE    Soul    1993    1910    83    6.323
30    27    Up this week OLD DOMINION    No Hard Feelings    1966    1725    241    7.237
0      28    Up this week KANE BROWN    Like I Love Country Music    1754    0    1754    7.506
31    29    Up this week MORGAN WADE    Wilder Days    1546    1425    121    3.197
33    30    Up this week JELLY ROLL    Son Of A Sinner    1550    1394    156    4.913

SPINCREASE CHART

SCOTTY MCCREERY  Damn Strait  249 move (-25)  303 stations (--) 

-- Scotty moved down from #23 to #26 this morning .... Note:  Jake Owen dropped to #32; Dylan Scott moved up to #4;  and Kane Brown remained at #1.

 

*Pinned:  Mediabase Reporter Panel/Weights

The current Mediabase panel originally featured 160 stations. Over the past year, the panel lost 3 of these stations and (recently) added 2 more:

160 stations - 3 stations (KPLX Dallas/9.2, WCKT Ft Myers/2.6, WNSH New York/9.3) + 2 stations (WHEL Ft. Myers/1.5 and WOLF Syracuse/2.0) = 159 current stations

Note:  As of 4/25/22, 158 of the 159 current MB panelists were spinning Damn Strait. It appears that WXBQ Johnson City is the only station still dragging its feet!

 

Recurrencies

May 15       Eric Church and Blake Shelton (neither of whom hit #1 and both of whom have already dropped below Scotty!)

May 22      Cole Swindell & Lainey Wilson

 

IMPACT DATES -- a comparative! [updated late on 5.8.22]

[NOTE:  Sans those that impacted with him, the artists listed below impacted anywhere from ONE to EIGHT months before Scotty!]

Scotty:                   10.18.21 ...current rank: #14

Lauren Alaina:          02.22.21...current rank: peaked at #27 and went recurrent on 2.13.22

Tenille Arts:            05.24.21...current rank: peaked in the low 30s and went recurrent on 4.24.22

Cody Johnson:      10.18.21... current rank:  peaked at #1 on 3.20.22 and went recurrent on 4.17.22

Caroline Jones:      05.10.21 at Billboard (doesn’t appear to have formally impacted at Mediabase???) ... current rank: #40

Toby Keith:             Released to digitals on 6.25.21 and appears to have impacted Mediabase on 7.6.21... current rank: peaked in the 30s and then dropped off the chart on 4.17.22

Chris Lane:             hit #53 on the MB chart on 5.10.21 (doesn’t appear to have formally impacted?!)... current rank: peaked at #42 and went recurrent on 1.30.22

Justin Moore:         10.18.21...current rank:  #20

Bros Osborne:        04.26.21...current rank:  peaked at #32 before dropping off the T50 chart on 3/13/22 

Jake Owen:            08.09.21...current rank: #13

Drew Parker:          05.24.21...current rank:  dropped off the T50 chart on 2.13.22

Parmalee:               10.04.21...current rank:  #10

Frank Ray:              08.23.21...current rank: #23

Chase Rice:            10.18.21... current rank:  dropped out of the T50 on 4.3.22

Darius Rucker:        03.22.21...current rank: peaked at #37 and went recurrent on 12.5.21

Dylan Scott:            08.09.21...current rank: #16

Caitlyn Smithw/OD   02.22.21 ...current rank: peaked at #38 before dropping off the chart on 11.28.21

Chris Young:           09.13.21 ...current rank: #17

 

*Pinned:

Wowzers, "Damn Strait" has hit Top 40 faster than all of Scotty's previous singles with Triple Tigers -- all 4 of which hit #1! 

• Damn Strait:  Impacted on Oct 18, 2021 and hit 'Top 40' 48 days later on Dec 5, 2021
• You Time:       Impacted on Oct 12, 2020 and hit 'Top 40' 98 days later on Jan 18, 2021 
• In Between:    Impacted on April 1, 2019 and hit 'Top 40'  88 days later on Aug 19, 2019 
• This Is It:         Impacted on May 7, 2018 and hit 'Top 40'  112 days later on Aug 27, 2018
• Five More Minutes:  Self-released on May 5, 2017 and hit 'Top 40' 135 days later on Sept 18, 2017        

 

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Spotify (updated daily)

9,398,984 streams (+120,882)... 9.3M streams  ... Damn Strait has rotated down from #3 to #44 this week on the Hot Country playlist--a move that will cost Scotty thousands of streams/day.

*Pinned: It finally happened!  Spotify added "Damn Strait" to its HOT COUNTRY playlist on 4/14/22 -- 6,761,833 listeners babeee! ... Let's goooo!

*Pinned:  It's all about streaming and Spotify is the largest streamer in music with a consistent 32% share of the market.  Unfortunately, the other 68% (Apple, Amazon et al) don't publicly post their artist-specific numbers. 

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iTunes (updated daily)

Top 200 All Genre Songs:

    Damn Strait:  #72

Top 200 Country Songs:

    Damn Strait:  #18 ...   

Today's Country Songs:

    Damn Strait:  #10 ... 

Top  200 Country Albums

   Same Truck:   #70

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YouTube (updated daily)

Combined views: 4,317,983 views ... 4.3M  

Lyric video (9.17.21):   2,323,905 views (+11,730) ... 2.3M 

Music video (2.8.22):  1,994,078 views (+29,490) ... 1.9M  

 

 

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Just in case you missed it  . . . 

 

There's no doubt that Scotty is the Canes good luck charm -- the siren and the victory!

 

 

... another performance during CMA Fest!

 

Edited May 12, 2022 by drdeb

[istersay]

15 hours ago, Eleyn60 said:

Always keeping up through this forum with Scotty.  Never post though.  

 

I just don't get why they would pick those 3 songs for radio.  #smh  They don't seem very strong to follow DS. 

 

Thanks for all the hard work

welcome to the board 

[tfortexas]

16 hours ago, Eleyn60 said:

Always keeping up through this forum with Scotty.  Never post though.  

 

I just don't get why they would pick those 3 songs for radio.  #smh  They don't seem very strong to follow DS. 

 

Thanks for all the hard work

Which ones would you suggest?   I'm sure Triple Tigers is weighing the options.  Personally I think most of the songs on the CD are worthy of being a single.  Scotty seems to favor It Matters To Her.   It's got that 90s vibe.   If the third one does well, would they consider a 4th?

[+sinycalone]

14 minutes ago, tfortexas said:

Which ones would you suggest?   I'm sure Triple Tigers is weighing the options.  Personally I think most of the songs on the CD are worthy of being a single.  Scotty seems to favor It Matters To Her.   It's got that 90s vibe.   If the third one does well, would they consider a 4th?

Two of my favorites on the CD are a couple of songs I know will never be sent to radio:  How Ya Doing Up There and It'll Grow on You.

[Eleyn60]

3 hours ago, istersay said:

welcome to the board 

Thank you 

[tfortexas]

2 hours ago, sinycalone said:

Two of my favorites on the CD are a couple of songs I know will never be sent to radio:  How Ya Doing Up There and It'll Grow on You.

Yes, I concur. 

[Eleyn60]

2 hours ago, tfortexas said:

Which ones would you suggest?   I'm sure Triple Tigers is weighing the options.  Personally I think most of the songs on the CD are worthy of being a single.  Scotty seems to favor It Matters To Her.   It's got that 90s vibe.   If the third one does well, would they consider a 4th?

I don't pretend to know what radio will or will not play.  Depends on the artist I think.  But i thought Small Town Girl would be a contender.  Maybe they want a song that won't move up that chart so fast.  He would need to put up another album right? Does anyone get 4 #1 on an album nowadays?  I am sure they know what they're doing. But did have me bewildered.  It Matters To Her is good I think.

[drdeb]

2 hours ago, sinycalone said:

Two of my favorites on the CD are a couple of songs I know will never be sent to radio:  How Ya Doing Up There and It'll Grow on You.

 

Those are 2 of my fave songs as well!  That said, I'd love to see Scotty/Triple Tigers release "It Matters To Her" -- a 'message' song with a great 90s vibe.  It also has higher streaming numbers than the other non-released options and has already been endorsed by several DJs/PDs ... At any rate, I guess we'll know soon enough.

[mary_beaton]

48 minutes ago, drdeb said:

 

Those are 2 of my fave songs as well!  That said, I'd love to see Scotty/Triple Tigers release "It Matters To Her" -- a 'message' song with a great 90s vibe.  It also has higher streaming numbers than the other non-released options and has already been endorsed by several DJs/PDs ... At any rate, I guess we'll know soon enough.

I favor It Matters To Her as well.

 

I must have received a different RadioTraks email because there here wasn't a chance to review the three Scotty songs IMTH, Home, The Waiter. Was it in a separate email than the regular survey?

[drdeb]

2 minutes ago, mary_beaton said:

I favor It Matters To Her as well.

 

I must have received a different RadioTraks email because there here wasn't a chance to review the three Scotty songs IMTH, Home, The Waiter. Was it in a separate email than the regular survey?

 

Yes, it was a separate email and did NOT identify Scotty as the artist until the very end... Did you check your junk mail?  That's where I find most of my RadioTraks emails. 

[ptebwwong]

4 hours ago, tfortexas said:

Which ones would you suggest?   I'm sure Triple Tigers is weighing the options.  Personally I think most of the songs on the CD are worthy of being a single.  Scotty seems to favor It Matters To Her.   It's got that 90s vibe.   If the third one does well, would they consider a 4th?

I think a 4th single release depends on a few factors. Definitely how well the 3rd single does, but also how long does it take on the charts. If it's a long chart run (Ex. a year), I could see the label moving onto a new album. 

 

Since the album release, there have been about 5 new registered songs on BMI. The reason I'm mentioning this is because if the 3rd single does well (fingers crossed ) they could always release a deluxe album with a couple new songs (the new co-writes or even the songs that didn't make the album). One of those new songs could be the 4th single. Many artists do this if the album has several successful singles.

Edited May 11, 2022 by ptebwwong

[Sharon Jiles]

I have wanted "It Matters To Her" for the 3rd single ever since the album came out.

I just love it!

[mary_beaton]

1 hour ago, drdeb said:

 

Yes, it was a separate email and did NOT identify Scotty as the artist until the very end... Did you check your junk mail?  That's where I find most of my RadioTraks emails. 

Thanks! The only thing I found in my spam file was a three song survey from a "new country artist" which ended yesterday morning. All other surveys I've either completed or they've expired. Still, would have given It Matters to Her my vote as a new single. 

Edited May 11, 2022 by mary_beaton

[tfortexas]

1 hour ago, ptebwwong said:

I think a 4th single release depends on a few factors. Definitely how well the 3rd single does, but also how long does it take on the charts. If it's a long chart run (Ex. a year), I could see the label moving onto a new album. 

 

Since the album release, there have been about 5 new registered songs on BMI. The reason I'm mentioning this is because if the 3rd single does well (fingers crossed ) they could always release a deluxe album with a couple new songs (the new co-writes or even the songs that didn't make the album). One of those new songs could be the 4th single. Many artists do this if the album has several successful singles.

Sounds like a possible plan. Time will tell.

[Jonathan]

"It Matters to Her" sounds so radio! It'll be huge! I was hoping for that or "Small Town Girl."  I hope they go with "It Matters to Her" out of the 3 sent.

 

It says everything about the state of Country radio that they won't play a sad song though. Sad songs are what built Country music.  

 

[tfortexas]

10 minutes ago, Jonathan said:

"It Matters to Her" sounds so radio! It'll be huge! I was hoping for that or "Small Town Girl."  I hope they go with "It Matters to Her" out of the 3 sent.

 

It says everything about the state of Country radio that they won't play a sad song though. Sad songs are what built Country music.  

 

I'd take the quote about radio not playing sad songs with a grain of salt.   A killer sad song would go.