This Is Country Music And We Dominate The Charts This Week

Brad Paisley leads the way this week - as expected - with This Is Country Music but an unexpected Digital-only release from Scotty McCreery broke all kinds of country chart records this week.  Find out how well they both did on this week's Exclusive SoundS

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
New 2 Brad Paisley This Is Country Music 152,598 152,953
4 9 Jason Aldean My Kinda Party 32,695 1,237,081
New 10 Scotty McCreery American Idol 10 23,196 23,196
34 23 Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give 15,920 935,254
46 24 Rascal Flatts Nothing Like This 15,892 843,040

Taylor Swift leads off the #6-#10 section of our rundown with Speak Now selling 18% more than the previous week and now has a sales tally of 3.435 as “Mean” moves its way up the singles chart (and giving Taylor hope for her first #1 single from this album).  The Band Perry’s The Band Perry album is next with another 11,000 fans taking their record home, the very same week as “If I Die Young” scores its double platinum certification for 2m of digital single sales.  Lady Antebellum is next with their 3.5 million seller Need You Now while Scotty McCreery’s Top 2 Idol finalist competitor and friend Lauren Alaina sits at #9 this week with American Idol 10: Lauren Alaina, a collection of her 10 best country performances from the year and it includes her 124,000 seller “Like My Mother Does.” That single debuts at #49 this week on the Billboard singles chart. Both Lauren and Scotty bring Interscope Records back onto the country billboard charts (in partnership with Universal Music Group Nashville), a position the label has rarely ever landed. With “My Heart Can’t Tell You No” (a cover of an 80s pop song), Sara Evans looks to keep her comeback going while Stronger continues to sell and has now sold nearly 200,000 copies since being released earlier this year.

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
29 25 Taylor Swift Speak Now 15,763 3,435,587
43 37 The Band Perry The Band Perry 11,764 569,385
47 40 Lady Anthebellum Need You Now 10,734 3,511,445
New 41 Lauren Alaina American Idol 10 10,651 10,651
57 44 Sara Evans Stronger 10,089 198,250

Alison Krauss/Union Station’s Paper Airplane leads off the 11-15 section of this charts with the album now over 206,000 copies sold.  Blake Shelton has been gaining great press on NBC’s The Voice and that must’ve certainly been the big reason behind the 59% sales increase of Loaded…The Best of Blake Shelton.  The lead single to Red River Blue, Due in July, is “Honey Bee” and the tune is the fastest-rising single of Blake’s career, is already a Top 5 single and it is the quickest-selling digital single from a male country artist with Gold sales achieved in just seven short weeks (a feat that Scotty McCreery may just pass).  Colt Ford’s getting ready to send his laid-back “She Likes To Ride In Trucks” to country radio (the song features the melodious Craig Morgan with Colt) as he’s now sold nearly 50,000 copies of Every Chance I Get, the album from which that song and “Country Thang” are a part of.  The press concerning Tim McGraw’s lawsuits with Curb Records (who sued him first) certainly helped his two-disc Number One Hits run up 39 slots on the Billboard charts this week while the Zac Brown Band’s The Foundation slides in at #15 with a 20 slot jump of its own and a 17% sales increase. 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
42 48 Alison Krauss/Union Station Paper Airplane 9,598 206,313
82 49 Blake Shelton Loaded…Best of Blake… 9,216 273,153
53 62 Colt Ford Every Chance I Get 7,226 45,736
104 65 Tim McGraw Number One Hits 6,370 361,660
87 67 Zac Brown Band The Foundation 6,332 2,621,766

The soundtrack to Country Strong leads our #16-20 SoundScan Top Country Albums chart rundown this week with another 6,200 fans taking the record home.  Kenny Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey has gained 5% sales over last week and now has sold 823,000 copies while Randy Travis’s Cracker Barrel-exclusive self-titled collection of past hits has sold 26,000 copies since being released (as he gets ready to release “Anniversary collection” soon.  Miranda Lambert’s Revolution is next with 1.3 million copies sold while Aaron Lewis makes 20 of the Top 80 albums on the SoundScan Hot 200 (current) Albums chart country albums. 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
65 69 Original Soundtrack Country Strong 6,234 279,218
79 70 Kenny Chesney  Hemingway's Whiskey 6,142 823,818
66 77 Randy Travis Randy Travis 5,689 26,112
72 78 Miranda Lambert Revolution 5,667 1,320,050
71 80 Aaron Lewis  Town Line 5,405 154,459

Given the success of country records this week, we’ve added #21-25 to this week’s rundown along with our ‘interesting albums’ section.  Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine sits at 21 this week with another 5,000 fans taking the record home while Icon from Josh Turner continues its Idol-boost up the charts with total sales now over 33k (an impressive sum for an album not promoted at all by MCA Nashville).  Thompson Square’s “I Got You” is already a Top 35 hit in a few short weeks, giving many the incentive to declare them more than a one hit wonder and the duo remain 2011’s best-selling new country artists with over 171,000 copies of Thompson Square sold (although they’re sure to lose that title to Scotty McCreery sometime this fall when his debut album is released).  Billy Currington’s Icon album is next with that album nearing 32,000 copies sold with little promotion for the budget collection while Billy’s current album, Enjoy Yourself rounds out the Top 25 rundown this week with 322,000 fans now owning the album since its release last fall. 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
84 85 Sugarland The Incredible Machine 5,027 993,735
154 90 Josh Turner ICON 4,583 33,210
89 91 Thompson Square Thomspon Square 4,556 171,047
re-enter 123 Billy Currington ICON 3,712 31,588
127 126 Billy Currington Enjoy Yourself 3,585 322,214

The Civil Wars, a Nashville-based roots music duo, lead our interesting albums section as Barton Hollow scored a 44 slot jump on the chart this week thanks to sales at best buy for $7.99 and at Amazon’s MP3 store with a $3.99 daily deal sale. They’ve now sold over 103,000 copies and are virtual locks for a Best New Artist Grammy nomination, come Jan 2012. Jerrod Niemann’s Judge Jerrod and the Hung Jury is next with 311,580 copies sold while newcomer Frankie Ballard (with the fun “A Buncha Girls” on the radio charts) debuts on the chart this week with nearly 3,000 fans taking the album home.  Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers have now sold 50,000 copies of the fantastic Rare Bird Alert while John Rich’s For The Kids makes an appearance on the Hot 200 Albums chart this week, the second week the album has been on the charts (last week the other SixPak from Rich, Rich Rocks was featured). 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
95 51 Civil Wars Barton Hollow 8,962 103,743
162 158 Jerrod Niemann Judge Jerrod/Hung Jury 4,317 311,580
New  173 Frankie Ballard Frankie Ballard 2,775 2,793
Re 173 Steve Martin/Steep Canyon… Rare Bird Alert 2,684 50,617
New  198 John Rich For The Kids 2,483 4,181

With no really big albums releasing this week, we’ll have virtually all the same albums for our rundown next week.  It’ll be interesting to see how much Brad loses week-over-week and the same holds true for McCreery and Alaina as their iTunes collections undoubtedly will lose some of the post-American Idol glow.  As always, check back here to see where the chips fall. 

 

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