My Kinda Party Retains #1 position on Albums Chart

Colt Ford leads off the #6-10 rundown of this week’s Top Country Albums chart with Every Chance I Get. The album has now sold nearly 30,000 copies in just two short weeks.  Rascal Flatts’ Nothing Like This won’t “let go” from its chart position as the album has now sold nearly 820,000 copies while The Band Perry is inching closer to 600k scanned with this week’s #8 album, The Band Perry.  Sara Evans remains Stronger with the #9 slot this week while Country Strong’s official soundtrack rounds out the Top 10 with nearly 270,000 copies sold.

Randy Travis leaps to the Top 15 this week with his Cracker Barrel-exclusive Randy Travis best-of compilation now having sold nearly 14,000 copies in just two weeks. Sugarland sits at #12 this week with The Incredible Machine now only 17,000 copies away from scanning Platinum.  Miranda Lambert’s Revolution sits next with over 1.3 million copies now in the hands of fans everywhere while Aaron Lewis’ Town Line (now on R&J Records, not Stroudavarious) has now sold over 140,000 copies.  Miranda’s new husband, Blake Shelton, is next with Loaded…The Best of Blake Shelton rounding out the Top 15 with nearly 260,000 copies sold as he works on the follow-up album which features “Honey Bee.”

Zac Brown Band’s The Foundation is the leader of the last quarter of our rundown this week as the band’s debut has now surpassed the 2.61 million scanned mark while Donny & Marie Osmond’s self-titled country album has now scanned 22,000 copies in two weeks. Kenny Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey has now scanned 811,000 copies while Emmylou Harris’ mostly self-written Hard Bargain has moved 32,000 copies in three weeks on the charts.  Thompson Square’s self-titled album looks like it will spring another hit with “I Got You” sitting at #41 on the charts this week after only a couple of weeks on the charts. 

The interesting album section doesn’t feature any new releases or any female artists (It would’ve had Carrie Underwood’s Play On made an appearance).  Anyway, currently in litigation with Curb Records, Tim McGraw’s Number One Hits now has sold over 350,000 copies while Billy Currington’s Enjoy Yourself  has scanned over 315,000 and landed the #122 slot on SoundScan’s Hot 200 (current) Albums chart.  Darius Rucker has the #125 album on the chart this week with Charleston, SC 1966. Get Closer by Keith Urban is getting closer to 600,000 scanned as he works “Without You” up to the Top of the charts while Brad Paisley’s two disc Hits Alive collection has now scanned over 250,000 copies making it an official Gold recording for the headliner, just before This Is Country Music comes out next week (which should be a high debut).

Next week’s chart rundown should feature the new John Rich SixPaks and may feature Matraca Berg and Carter’s Chord as well. As always be sure to check with us to find out where the chips fall.