On The Charts This Week

Like death and taxes, another week has come to an end with Taylor Swift selling the most country albums this week. The question seems to be, though, are any other country artists going to be able to take over the throne?

Like death and taxes, another week has come to an end with Taylor Swift selling the most country albums this week. The question seems to be, though, are any other country artists going to be able to take over the throne? On the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart for an 88th week, "Taylor Swift" sold an additional 31,827 copies to bring her cume to 3,110,456 albums sold. Here's how the Top 5 country albums stacked up on the chart last week:

Chart Place Artist Album This Week Total Sales
14 Taylor Swift Taylor Swift 31,827 3,110,456
26 Toby Keith 35 Biggest Hits 17,179 292,377
34 Carrie Underwood Carnival Ride 14,117 2,203,703
36 Jewel Perfectly Clear 13,558 101,693
39 Sugarland Enjoy The Ride 13,164 2,314,213

While the stars at the top of the charts continued to dominate country music as expected, there are a couple of up-and-coming artists continue to see their albums ride the lower-reaches of the charts:

Chart Place Artist Album This Week Total Sales
70 Miranda Lambert Gunpowder & Lead 9,292 476,404
81 James Otto Sunset Man 8,554 237,827
86 Julianne Hough Julianne Hough 8,319 141,840
98 Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum 7,698 165,076
117 Reckless Kelly Bulletproof 6,424 6,424

As you can see from the chart above, Reckless Kelly has the distinction of having the best country-related debut on the Hot 200 Albums chart. The Road Hammers saw their album debut at 57 with 1,192 albums sold while the digital only Carter's Chord record sold 797 and has a total amount of 1,867 albums sold in the two weeks on the chart. The album 'bring up the rear' on the Top Country Albums chart? Clay Walker with his "Fall" album selling 724 copies which gives him a total of 247,000 albums sold. Wow, so that's what three hit singles give an album these days?

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