Taylor Swift Contines Country Album Chart Reign

For what seems like the billionth time, Taylor Swift continues her dominance of the Nielsen SoundScan Hot Country Albums charts with her Fearless album continuing to sell thousands of copies per week. How did the rest of country music's Top 10 shake out this week?

For what seems like the billionth time, Taylor Swift continues her dominance of the Nielsen SoundScan Hot Country Albums charts with her Fearless album continuing to sell thousands of copies per week. following-up Ms. Swift on the charts this week are the Zac Brown Band and their major-label debut The Foundation, the resilient Hannah Montana Movie soundtrack, #1's...And Then Some album best-of album from retiring duo Brooks & Dunn and Jason Aldean's country-rock opus Wide Open. 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
8 13 Taylor Swift Fearless 34,341 3,902,314
13 18 Zac Brown Band Foundation 27,466 1,007,908
20 22 Hannah Montana  Movie Soundtrack 18,895 1,537,579
15 23 Brooks & Dunn #1's & Then Some 18,178 98,711
23 26 Jason Aldean Wide Open 16,747 634,335

The second half of the Nielsen SoundScan Hot Country Albums chart Top 10 is filled by the legendary "king" George Strait's latest album Twang, Lady Antebellum's platinum self-titled debut at 7th and Reba McEntire's latest Keep On Loving You at 8th.  That album, her first record for her own Starstruck Records, in partnership with the Valory Record Company label, has now sold over 200,000 copies.  Rounding out the Top 10 this week is the second edition of Now That's What I Call Country Music! compilation and Darius Rucker's Learn To Live, a record that has scanned over a million copies as of this week, thanks in large part to the three #1 singles on the record. 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
26 32 George Strait Twang 13,797 339,793
42 33 Lady Antebellum Lady Antebellum 13,729 841,681
29 38 Reba McEntire Keep On Loving You 12,554 214,638
32 41 Various Artist Now Country 2 11,751 100,445
44 42 Darius Rucker Learn To Live 11,439 9,550,283

As always, we now present to you some of the more interesting albums on the Nielsen SoundScan charts this week.  With Man I Want To Be RCA Records is getting rewarded with sticking with Chris Young as the former Nashville Star winner has scored his first Top 5 hit with "Getting You Home (The Black Dress Song)."  His album has now moved over 60,000 copies in a month's time on the charts. Justin Moore, who just scored a #1 hit with "Small Town USA," continues to march towards the 100,000 albums sold mark with his self-titled debut album for The Valory Music Co.  Country legend George Jones has now sold over 18,000 copies of his compilation album Old Country Store, which is sold exclusively at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's nationwide.  Eric Church's sophomore release Carolina has marched over the 135,000 albums sold mark thanks in large part to his first Top 10 hit, "I Love Your Love The Most."  Rounding out this week's albums round-up is Country indie sensation Colt Ford, who will release a Wal-Mart exclusive CD/DVD set soon.  Colt's debut album Ride Through The Country is now poised to cross the 80,000 copies sold mark next week, a remarkable feat for someone with a DYI album. 

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
49 52 Chris Young Man I Want To Be 9,497 60,385
65 65 Justin Moore Justin Moore 7,226 99,576
103 133 George Jones  Old Country Store 3,505 18,300
160 154 Eric Church  Carolina 3,082 138,018
179 184 Colt Ford Ride Through The Country 2,688 79,641

Next week we'll see a cavalcade of new releases with Miranda Lambert's third album Revolution and Patty Loveless' Mountain Soul II likely leading the way with Kris Kristofferson's latest and Big & Rich's Greatest Hits following suit.

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