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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