For the second week of its life-cycle, Luke Bryan's Tailgates & Tanlines scores the best-selling country album in America according to SoundScan's Top 200 Current Albums chart. Read on to find out how Eli Young Band fared with their debut and more!
What we learned from The SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums chart stats this week:
- 4 of the 10 best selling albums on the SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums chart are country albums.
- 13 of the Top 30 are country albums as well.
- Luke Bryan has sold nearly 200,000 albums in two weeks. Retains the best-selling country album for a second week.
- Jason Aldean gained sales over last week. My Kinda Party could end up the #1 country album next week as well depending on how Luke and debuts from Sunny Sweeney and Pistol Annies do.
- Eli Young Band Debuts with best sales week of their career, admittedly it's only compared to their last album; when they were still unknown.
- Eric Church has sold a quarter of a million albums in 4 weeks on the chart.
- Blake Shelton has sold a quarter of a million in one more week than E.C.
- Zac Brown Band has sold 1.13 million copies of You Get What You Give.
- The Band Perry scored a 10% sales increase over last week to jump back into country Top 10.
- Taylor Swift is just slightly over 2,000 copies ahead of Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now for best-selling country album of 2010.
- Jeff Bridges debuts with Jeff Bridges. Over 13,000 fans took the album home this week. Good for #10 on our country tally (it’s listed in iTunes as a country recording).
- Brad Paisley is less than 70,000 copies away from scanning Gold (This Is Country Music is already certified gold by RIAA).
- Justin Moore passed the 200,000 albums sold mark. His current single is “Bait A Hook”
- Chris Young has sold 150,000 copies of Neon.
- Lady antebellum scored a nice sales increase last week bringing sales to 3.62 million sold.
- Both Kenny Chesney and Rascal Flatts are heading to scanning Gold for their current albums.
- Sugarland gains remarkable sales increase, leaving cynics to think that the stage collapse actually helped their career.
- The Country Strong original soundtrack has sold 324,000 copies. Exactly who did buy that turd? Just kidding. We like it.
- Keith Urban and Sara Evans both scored sales increases this week over last week.
- Guy Clark rounds out our rundown with Sounds & Stories. An album which pushed #1 album Watch The Throne off of #1 at Amazon last Tuesday! Guy Clark! Yay for Amazon Daily Deals!
Next week will see Sunny Sweeney, the Pistol Annies, Connie Smith and perhaps the McClymonts debut on the chart (that’s a lot of estrogen!). As usually check back here to see how the cookie crumbles!
LW |
TW |
Artist |
Album |
Sales TW |
Sales Total |
2 |
4 |
Luke Bryan |
Tailgates & Tanlines |
52,889 |
198,309 |
6 |
5 |
Jason Aldean |
My Kinda Party |
37,380 |
1,732,902 |
NEW |
6 |
Eli Young Band |
Life At Best |
34,957 |
35,013 |
5 |
7 |
Eric Church |
Chief |
31,275 |
266,349 |
14 |
14 |
Blake Shelton |
Red River Blue |
17,639 |
259,077 |
LW |
TW |
Artist |
Album |
Sales TW |
Sales Total |
17 |
17 |
Zac Brown Band |
You Get What You Give |
16,150 |
1,139,010 |
20 |
21 |
Trace Adkins |
Proud To Be Here |
14,412 |
78,292 |
33 |
23 |
The Band Perry |
The Band Perry |
13,298 |
716,083 |
27 |
24 |
Taylor Swift |
Speak Now |
13,202 |
3,618,238 |
NEW |
25 |
Jeff Bridges |
Jeff Bridges |
13,197 |
13,222 |
LW |
TW |
Artist |
Album |
Sales TW |
Sales Total |
26 |
26 |
Brad Paisley |
This Is Country Music |
13,000 |
435,655 |
29 |
28 |
Scotty McCreery |
American Idol/Highlights |
12,346 |
144,864 |
32 |
31 |
Justin Moore |
Outlaws Like Me |
10,721 |
206,602 |
35 |
39 |
Chris Young |
Neon |
9,233 |
153,541 |
53 |
44 |
Lady Anthebellum |
Need You Now |
8,395 |
3,620,838 |
LW |
TW |
Artist |
Album |
Sales TW |
Sales Total |
49 |
47 |
Various |
Now Country IV |
7,770 |
126,944 |
47 |
49 |
Zac Brown Band |
The Foundation |
7,628 |
2,708,303 |
51 |
53 |
Kenny Chesney |
Hemingway's Whiskey |
7,314 |
923,584 |
61 |
55 |
Rascal Flatts |
Nothing Like This |
7,130 |
946,681 |
76 |
71 |
Lauren Alaina |
American Idol/Highlights |
5,128 |
62,837 |
LW |
TW |
Artist |
Album |
Sales TW |
Sales Total |
138 |
99 |
Sugarland |
The Incredible Machine |
4,116 |
1,042,641 |
157 |
100 |
Various |
Country Strong |
4,094 |
324,499 |
115 |
101 |
Sara Evans |
Stronger |
4,046 |
270,869 |
149 |
121 |
Keith Urban |
Get Closer |
3,382 |
631,618 |
NEW |
128 |
Guy Clark |
Songs And Stories |
3,252 |
3,337 |
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