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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