A battle between two country heavy hitters fell in favor of the most successful “American Idol” winner.<\/p>\n
Carrie Underwood, that immensely successful former “Idol” contestant, scores weekly most-added honors for her new song “Something in the Water.”<\/p>\n
First made available Monday but not due to formally impact the country format until 10\/6, “Water” commanded a healthy 57 monitored Mediabase adds this week. That gave it the slight edge over Kenny Chesney’s “Til It’s Gone,” which launched at 52 stations this week.<\/p>\n
In addition to scoring a strong reception from radio programmers, Underwood’s “Something in the Water” also resonated with music buyers. It is currently #4 on the all-genre iTunes sales chart. Only One Direction’s “Steal My Girl,” Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” and Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” are selling more rapidly.<\/p>\n
Underwood and Chesney were not, however, in isolation at the top of the country radio add board. Eric Church’s “Talladega,” which ranked as last week’s most-added track, impressed this week with 49 adds.<\/p>\n
With respective add counts of 16 and 12, Sara Evans’ “Put My Heart Down” and Tim McGraw’s “Shotgun Rider” follow as the week’s fourth- and fifth-most-added country songs.<\/p>\n
Other songs on the radar this week include Kristian Bush’s “Trailer Hitch” (6th-most-added, 11 adds), Josh Turner’s “Lay Low” (7th, 10 adds), Dierks Bentley’s “Say You Do” (8th, 9 adds), Easton Corbin’s “Baby Be My Love Song” (8th, 9 adds) and Jon Pardi’s “When I’ve Been Drinkin'” (8th, 9 adds).<\/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":[42,1022,2458,2982,2980,2934,2981,652],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n