With country music’s best weekly sales figure in a year and the best debut in almost two, Florida Georgia Line’s “Dirt” got off to an irrefutably hot start.<\/p>\n
According to Billboard, the country duo’s new track scored 182,000 paid downloads during its first week of availability.<\/p>\n
Second only to MAGIC!’s “Rude” (185,000) on this week’s Digital Songs chart, the sales total represents the best for a country song since FGL’s own “Cruise” scored 193,000 paid downloads during the week of July 7, 2013.<\/p>\n
It is, meanwhile, the best weekly debut total for a country song since Taylor Swift’s “Red” moved 312,000 in October 2012.<\/p>\n
Sam Smith’s “Stay with Me,” which was number one on last week’s Digital Songs chart, trailed the MAGIC! and FGL songs with a third place finish this week. Its download count clocked in at 162,000.<\/p>\n
Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy (featuring Charli XCX)” was fourth with 154,000, while Ariana Grande’s “Problem (featuring Iggy Azalea)” claimed fifth on the strength of 124,000.<\/p>\n
Other top ten sellers: Nico and Vinz’s “Am I Wrong” (111,000, #6), Maroon 5’s “Maps” (105,000, #7), Charli XCX’s “Boom Clap” (100,000, #8), Jason DeRulo’s “Wiggle (featuring Snoop Dogg)” (90,000, #9) and Ariana Grande’s “Break Free (featuring Zedd)” (86,000, #10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1047,206],"tags":[1485,2529,432,2098,672,2190,145],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n