Reflecting the benefit of high-profile airplay (and an extra day of availability), Billboard’s audience-driven Country Airplay chart has been kinder to recent blockbuster releases than Mediabase’s spin-based chart.<\/p>\n
The case was no different for Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water,” which arrived at #25 on Mediabase’s country chart but #17 on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart.<\/p>\n
The #17 bow easily ranks as the launch position\u00a0for a country song this week.\u00a0 The Band Perry’s “Gentle on My Mind,” which is the week’s next most notable Country Airplay debut, starts distantly below at #54.<\/p>\n
Other debuts on this week’s Billboard Country Airplay chart include The Railers’ “Kinda Dig the Feeling” (#58), Dierks Bentley’s “Say You Do” (#59) and Kelsea Ballerini’s “Love Me Like You Mean It” (#60).<\/p>\n
Other top 40 debuts on the aforementioned Mediabase chart include Eric Church’s “Talladega” (#34) and Kenny Chesney’s “Til It’s Gone” (#40).<\/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":[42,1672,2935,2980,313,3003],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n