Martina McBride managed to do something that no other Country artist has been able to do so far this year that is she surpassed Taylor swift as the biggest selling Country artist on the SoundScan charts this week. Swift, for her part, wasn’t far behind and of particular note are the two other major chart debuts this week: John Rich with his “Son of a Preacher Man” followed quickly by Eric Church and his “Carolina” album. Rounding out the Top 5 albums on the country chart this week is Carrie Underwood and her 1.5 year-old album “Carnival Ride.”
Last | This | Artist | Album | This Week | Total Sales |
NEW | 10 | Martina McBride | Shine | 41,457 | 41,475 |
6 | 12 | Taylor Swift | Fearless | 39532 | 2,935,887 |
NEW | 16 | John Rich | Son of a Preacher Man | 30,878 | 30,879 |
NEW | 17 | Eric Church | Carolina | 30,590 | 30,596 |
15 | 31 | Carrie Underwood | Carnival Ride | 16,775 | 2,719,759 |
The second half of the Top 10 Country albums on the Neilsen SoudScan chart features usual suspects on the recent charts in the form of Zac Brown Band’s debut “The Foundation,” Darius Rucker’s “Learn To Live,” Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut, and Sugarland’s “Love On The Inside.” The surprise entrant in the chart is Dolly Parton’s Cracker Barrel exclusive release “Backwoods Barbie.” That album sold an impressive 12,000 copies last week bringing Dolly’s total sales for her latest album over the 150,000 albums sold threshold, which isn’t bad for an album which hasn’t had a major hit single off of it.
Last | This | Artist | Album | This Week | Total Sales |
24 | 32 | Zac Brown Band | The Foundation | 16,361 | 375,359 |
27 | 34 | Darius Rucker | Lean To Live | 13,878 | 535,600 |
29 | 39 | Taylor Swift | Taylor Swift | 12,599 | 4,035,045 |
RE-Ent | 40 | Dolly Parton | Backwoods Barbie | 12,306 | 150,282 |
42 | 43 | Sugarland | Love On The Inside | 11,221 | 1,477,576 |
As always with our weekly chart run-down, we’ve gathered five of the remaining Country albums on the SoundScan Hot 200 chart that are of interest to us. The first one is Jamey Johnson’s “That Lonesome Song,” which continues to sell well and actually gained 29% more sales than the previous week as he shifted 11,000 more copies of the critically acclaimed disc. Jake Owen’s album “Easy Does It” continues to sell at a remarkably low pace for an artist with a song in the Top 10 at country radio while Lady Antebellum’s album gained 3% more sales than the previous week. Joey +Rory continue to sell thousands of albums every week, despite not having a major chart hit while Toby Keith’s album sales for the 22 week old “That Don’t Make Me A Bad Guy” can’t be described as anything but unexpected given his superstar status. The album is still well below gold status.
Last | This | Artist | Album | This Week | Total Sales |
53 | 45 | Jamey Johnson | That Lonesome Song | 11,114 | 358,074 |
58 | 67 | Lady Antebellum | Lady Antebellum | 8,249 | 485,530 |
93 | 118 | Jake Owen | Easy Does It | 4,653 | 48,843 |
115 | 146 | Joey+Rory | The Life Of A Song | 4,029 | 130,315 |
170 | 184 | Toby Keith | That Dont/Bad Guy | 3,029 | 360,493 |
In other chart news, Darius Rucker’s “It Won’t Be Like This For Long” continues it’s chart-topping presence for one more week on the Billboard/R&R charts while Taylor Swift’s “White Horse” is right behind it (but is #1 on the Country Aircheck chart). The rest of the Top five says the same but at the end of the Top 10 we find Carrie Underwood and Randy Travis at 9th place with “I Told You So” and Sugarland at 10 with their 7 week old single, “It Happens,” the youngest single in the Top 10.
Last | This | Weeks | Artist | Song | Label |
1 | 1 | 24 | Darius Rucker | It Won't Be Like This For Long | Capitol |
2 | 2 | 18 | Taylor Swift | White Horse | Big Machine |
3 | 3 | 21 | George Strait | River Of Love | MCA |
4 | 4 | 33 | Jake Owen | Don't Think I Can't Love You | RCA |
5 | 5 | 20 | Rodney Atkins | It's America | Curb |
8 | 6 | 19 | Jason Aldean | She's Country | Broken Bow |
7 | 7 | 15 | Tim McGraw | Nothin' To Die For | Curb |
9 | 8 | 10 | Rascal Flatts | Here Comes Goodbye | Lyric Street |
11 | 9 | 11 | Carrie Underwood/Randy Travis | I Told You So | 19/Arista |
12 | 10 | 7 | Sugarland | It Happens | Mercury |
Kenny Chesney’s new single “Out Last Night” enters at 25 on the chart while Last week’s top debuting single, “Then” by Brad Paisley us up to 20 on the chart. Stay tuned next week as Keith Urban’s new release “Defying Gravity” and Rodney Atkins “It’s America” enter the charts.
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