In scoring 79 first-week adds from monitored Mediabase country stations last week, Mickey Guyton’s “Better Than You Left Me” did not simply impact as the format’s most-added song. Per label Capitol Nashville, it also scored the “highest one-week add total on a debut act’s first single in Country Aircheck [which launched in 2006 and draws from Mediabase data] history.”
On the heels of the song’s successful radio impact, attention turns to its journey up the country radio airplay chart. That journey has already brought Guyton’s single into the top 50.
“Better Than You Left Me” ranks at #49 on the latest edition of Mediabase’s official country radio airplay chart. Up eleven places from last week’s position, the track commanded 536 spins and 2.36 million audience impressions during the January 11-17 tracking week.
The song’s play count bests that of last week by a whopping 391. No song beneath the chart’s Top 40 commanded that many new spins during the aforementioned seven day tracking period.
Some songs in that group are, however, making admirable moves. Frankie Ballard’s “Young and Crazy” rises twelve places to #46 this week (465 spins, +319), while Reba’s “Going Out Like That” advances seven spots to #48 (528 spins, +279).**
**While the Frankie Ballard and Reba songs commanded fewer weekly spins than Guyton’s “Better Than You Left Me,” both received more Mediabase points. Unlike its spin-based charts for other genres, Mediabase relies on a scoring system that allots point totals to spins from each radio market to define its country hierarchy.