This week on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, Dierks Bentley's latest single, "I Wanna Make You Close Your Eyes" took an unexpected leap over Taylor Swift's "Fifteen" to land at #7, inching ever-so-closer to the Top 5! It beat out "Fifteen" by a mere 16,000 audience impressions!
On Billboard's Indicator Chart (which, you'll remember, is the smaller-market's chart) it's already up to #5 ... I wonder if that chart will continue to be a sign of things to come?
Next week, I expect IWMYCYE to stay at #7. It's growing at roughly the same pace as the songs in front of it, and it's going to be at least 2-3 weeks before "Cowboy Casanova" and "Need You Now" fall enough in audience for it to surpass them. That, coupled with the Holiday weekend and a propensity for radio to start playing Holiday music, will likely be enough to hold things as they are currently for probably the next week.
I'm sorry I don't have more information to share with you this week, but I hope each and every one of you who is celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday has a wonderful and safe holiday. Please know that I am thankful to be part of such an amazing and awesome community -- I'm blessed to know each of you and thankful that our Prez brought us all together!
~ Carrie S. (DBC Rep/Chart Reporter ~ NC)
Thanks for this good news and happy Thanksgiving Carrie and everybody.
ReplyDeleteThank you Carrie! Wow! Surpassing Taylor--that's incredible! Totally understand about CC and NYN and the holiday music and that it may cause "eyes" to stall a while. I figure it will be a great xmas present to give dierks a third consecutive #1 by Dec. 25th!
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I'm with you Ronna, passing Taylor is quite impressive!! I love this song and hopefully we can help make it #1 soon! Heard it just this morning and the DJ was talking about missing Dierks at the CMA'a and how he should have been nominated... I called him right up and said I couldn't agree more!! Then I requested he play the song again!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome news. Thank you Carrie for such a wonderful job. Happy Thanksgiving!
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