Newly-crowned champion of NBC’s The Voice Chloe Kohanski logs a second week atop Billboard‘s Emerging Artists chart (dated Dec. 30). Plus, Nashville-based country artist Walker Hayes jumps 7-2, reaching a new peak.
The Emerging Artists chart uses the same formula as the all-encompassing Billboard Artist 100, which measures activity across multiple Billboard charts, including the Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 and the Social 50. However, the Emerging Artists chart excludes acts that have notched a top 25 entry on either the Hot 100 or Billboard 200, as well as artists that have achieved two or more top 10s on Billboard‘s “Hot” song genre charts and/or consumption-based “Top” album genre rankings.
Kohanski, who earned the champion’s crown on the show’s 13th-season on Tuesday night (Dec. 19), returns to No. 1 on the Emerging Artists chart for a second total week, thanks to two covers that she performed on the Dec. 11 episode of the show.
Her version of Foreigner’s 1985 Hot 100 No. 1 “I Want to Know What Love Is” debuts at No. 6 the Digital Song Sales chart with 27,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen Music. (It also helped spark a 102 percent increase in Foreigner’s original version, to 2,000 sold.) Plus, her take on Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game” with fellow Voice contestant Noah Mac enters Digital Song Sales at No. 10 with 21,000 sold. (Isaak’s original, which reached No. 6 on the Hot 100 in 1991, saw a 253 percent increase to 3,000 sold.)
Hayes’ rise is powered by his sophomore album, Boom, which arrives at No. 6 on the Top Country Albums chart and No. 37 on the Billboard 200 with 16,000 equivalent album units.
Hayes’ breakthrough single “You Broke Up With Me” holds at its No. 14 high on the Hot Country Songs chart and reaches at new peak on the Hot 100 (No. 83). The track gains in all metrics, re-entering Digital Song Sales at No. 38 (up 16 percent to 10,000 downloads sold) and rising 2 percent to 18 million radio audience impressions and 1 percent to 3.8 million U.S. streams. Album sales account for the greatest share of Hayes’ Artist 100 points (48 percent), followed by digital song sales (24 percent).
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Rounding out the Emerging Artists top five, four-week leader LANCO drops 1-3, Voice finalist Addison Agen leaps 9-4, and 18-year-old rapper Trippie Redd matches his No. 5 peak, rising 8-5.
Check out this week’s full Emerging Artists chart here.