With nothing really new coming out last week, this week’s SoundScan chart numbers find the best-selling album of 2010 returning to the pole position on the Hot Country Albums part of the SoundScan numbers. The only change in this week’s Top five versus last week’s Top 5 albums is that Miranda Lambert’s Revolution replaces Randy Rogers Band’s Burning The Day. The other three best-sellers in the Top 5 are Zac Brown Band and The Foundation, last week’s #1 album The Reason Why from Little Big Town and Trace Adkins’ Show Dog-Universal debut Cowboy’s Back In Town. Many of the stars of the TV broadcast of 2010 CMA Fest – Country’s Night To Rock telecast enjoyed strong sales increases.
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
12 | 12 | Lady Antebellum | Need You Now | 22,836 | 2,592,963 |
26 | 22 | Zac Brown Band | The Foundation | 16,580 | 2,239,363 |
5 | 25 | Little Big Town | The Reason Why | 15,962 | 57,906 |
11 | 28 | Trace Adkins | Cowboy's Back In Town | 15,113 | 88,770 |
29 | 29 | Miranda Lambert | Revolution | 14,541 | 827,207 |
Carrie Underwood enjoyed a sales increase thanks to the telecast as Play On jumps back to 6 on the chart while her ‘arch-nemisis’ Taylor Swift is next with Fearless. Blake Shelton’s All About Tonight is eight on this week’s chart with more than 7,000 more fans taking the SixPak album home. Next single “Who Are You When I’m Not Looking” is also on the mini album. Randy Rogers Band slides to the ninth place slot and 59th overall on the SoundScan Hot 200 chart numbers while Jerrod Niemann’s Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury rounds out the Top 10 albums this week while “What Do You Want” gets ready to be released as the album’s second single.
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
62 | 42 | Carrie Underwood | Play On | 8,735 | 1,721,702 |
56 | 48 | Taylor Swift | Fearless | 8,155 | 5,992,623 |
38 | 55 | Blake Shelton | All About Tonight | 7,335 | 67,486 |
8 | 59 | Randy Rogers Band | Burning The Day | 7,048 | 35,656 |
48 | 60 | Jerrod Niemann | Judge Jerrod/Hung Jury | 6,901 | 114,485 |
Brad Paisley’s American Saturday Night is the eleventh best-seller this week and thanks to both the high profile TV show and his new single “Anything Like Me,” Brad’s album climbed back onto our chart run-down this week. Lady A’s second album on this rundown (their venerable self-titled debut) is next with nearly 5,000 more fans taking a liking to the album while Jason Aldean and Darius Rucker experienced CMA Fest telecast love and saw their records climb back up the charts, sandwiching Easton Corbin’s fantastic debut in between them to round out this week’s Top 15.
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
95 | 73 | Brad Paisley | American Saturdyay Night | 6,168 | 632,609 |
94 | 91 | Lady Antebellum | Lady Antebellum | 4,882 | 1,740,771 |
123 | 103 | Jason Aldean | Wide Open | 4,740 | 1,278,552 |
101 | 104 | Easton Corbin | Easton Corbin | 4,230 | 232,627 |
130 | 105 | Darius Rucker | Learn To Live | 4,490 | 1,471,469 |
Our ‘interesting albums’ section of this week’s chart rundown features Luke Bryan nearing the Gold mark for his sophomore set Doin’ My Thing while CMA Award nominee Dierks Bentley’s Up On The Ridge continues to find love. Johnny Cash’s classic album At Folsom Prison returns to the charts with another re-issue bringing that set’s total sales to 1.1 million copies while Justin Moore and Craig Morgan both wer buoyed by the CMA Fest special as their albums both sold over 3,000 more copies.
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
117 | 107 | Luke Bryan | Doin' My Thing | 4,482 | 426,840 |
110 | 112 | Dierks Bentley | Up On The Ridge | 3,388 | 142,369 |
Re-Enter | 130 | Johnny Cash | At Folsom Prison | 3,751 | 1,103,841 |
Re-Enter | 174 | Justin Moore | Justin Moore | 3,061 | 281,631 |
174 | 176 | Craig Morgan | That's Why | 3,038 | 60,868 |
Next week’s rundown will likely be the final ‘quiet’ chart news of the year as September 14-November 23 features at least two high-profile releases each week. It will be an interesting fourth quarter of releases. Until then, adios.
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