Aaron Lewis hits Town Line with #1 Album

Zac Brown Band leads the #6-#10 list on this week’s SoundScan Hot Country Albums tally with You Get What You Give finding nearly 17,000 more owners while Luke Bryan’s digital-only EP Spring Break 3…It’s a Shore Thing! sold over 14,000 copies to land at #7. That is his highest-charting debut of the Spring Break EP series so far. Rascal Flatts have the 8th best-selling country album this week with Nothing Like This now nearing 675,000 copies scanned since being released late last year.  Thompson Square’s self-titled debut has now sold nearly 80,000 copies in a month on the charts while their fellow country newcomers The Band Perry’s self-titled debut rounds out the Top 10 has now scanned 437,000 copies.

Kenny Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey leads off the 11-15 section of the chart with total sales now approaching ¾ of a million copies sold.  Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine is next and has now sold nearly 890,000 copies while Zac Brown Band’s The Foundation sits at #13 with 8,750 more fans picking up a copy of the band’s multi-platinum debut album.  Miranda Lambert’s Revolution is next and is followed by the 15th best-seller of the week, Tim McGraw’s Number One Hits.

Blake Shelton’s Loaded...The Best of Blake Shelton starts off the final quarter of albums in our SoundScan Top 20 Country albums rundown this week with the album now nearing 200,000 copies scanned.  Billy Currington’s Enjoy Yourself – with current hit “Let Me Down Easy” leading the way, is next and has now sold over a quarter of a million albums since being released last fall.  Darius Rucker’s Charleston, SC 1966 is less than 100,000 albums away from scanning Gold while the Various Artist soundtrack to Country Strong is nearing 180,000 copies sold.  Jerrod Niemann’s Sea Gayle/Arista debut Judge Jerrd and the Hung Jury rounds out the Top 20 with sales now past the 260,000 mark as “What Do You Want” heads into the Top 10 on the radio charts.

In our interesting albums section this week, we find Eric Church’s Carolina inching ever so close to Gold status (it’ll eventually get there, despite the star working on album #3 now).  The JaneDear girls’ self-titled debut slides back up the charts and now has sold over 30,000 copies since being released in early February.  Keith Urban’s Get Closer has returned to normal sales levels after a couple of weeks scoring strong sales thanks to the digital release of the deluxe edition of the album. It has sold nearly 550,000 copies.  Steel Magnolia’s self-titled album has now sold nearly 86,000 copies while Luke Bryan’s sophomore full-length album Doin’ My Thing rounds out our rundown this week with over 528,000 copies of the album now in the hands of country music listeners.

Next week will see the launch of Sara Evans’ first album in nearly 5 years.  Check out here to see how that album and Charley Pride’s debut fare on the charts.