Tim McGraw - "Better Than I Used To Be" (Read 302 times)

[Jhomes87]

New Single by Tim McGraw - "Better Than I Used To Be"

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Source: Taste Of Country

Impact Date: January 3 (Curb Records)

Songwriters: Ashley Gorley and Bryan Simpson

Chart Run: 51-39-33-36-31-28-27-26-22-23-20-18-18-15-13-12-13-11-10-10-11-11-9-7-7-7-6-6-5-9-recurrent

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Recent singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart:

1) "Felt Good On My Lips" charted for 20 weeks, peaking at #1 for 3 weeks (1/8/11, 1/15/11, & 1/22/11).
2) "Me And Tennessee" (Duet with Gwyneth Paltrow) charted for 10 weeks, peaking at #34 on 4/9/11.

Billboard chart statistics for "Better Than I Used To Be":

- "Better Than I Used To Be" charted for 30 weeks, peaking at #5 on 6/30/12.

[Jhomes87]

This one narrowly missed out on the top 5 last week, as the EYB jumped 8-5, leapfrogging Tim in the process. BTIUTB spent a 2nd week at #6 but lost its bullet.

Still, with a HUGE gap back to the next climbing songs (Toby and Dierks at #9 and #10), Tim should be able to move up to #5 on Monday's 6/30 Billboard chart, even though he's showing another small audience drop on Mediabase so far this week.

Eric, Luke, Brantley, and the Eli Young Band will occupy the top 4 spots quite easily. But Carrie was #4 last week and she's down more than 3.2 million over the last 2 days, while Tim is down only 250k. Carrie will easily fall below Tim, probably down into the 24-25 million range. It's possible that BTIUTB will start to fall a bit faster in the coming days, but who's gonna pass Tim this week? Let's see, Tim was #6...ZBB's "No Hurry" was #7. That will likely go recurrent, as its down almost 3 million already. Kip Moore was #8, he's down 2.5 million and will probably go recurrent as well. At #9 was Toby Keith's "Beers Ago", but he was 7.5 million behind Tim. No way Toby makes that up this week, or Dierks or Kenny for that matter, either.

So I look for this one to rise one notch, in an un-bulleted move, up to #5, before it starts to fall hard next week and will easily get passed by Toby and Dierks.