August 17, 2011 Chart Report: Luke Bryan "Shakes It" To #1

Country music had 11 of the Top 33 albums this week which is 1/3 of the tally.
Of the Top 80 albums, country music owned 1/4 of the chart as well with 20 records.
Luke Bryan keeps the #1 country album in the USA in the hands of Capitol Records/EMI Records Nashville with 145,000-plus scanned at retail.
Eric Church sells nearly 40,000 more copies of Chief and has sold over 235,000 copies in three weeks.
Jason Aldean sold nearly as much as Church to put his record to nearly 1.7 million sold
Brad Paisley has sold over 420,000 copies of This is Country Music.
Justin Moore has sold nearly 200,000 copies of Outlaws Like Me.
The Band Perry has now sold over 700,000 copies of The Band Perry.
Chris Young’s sold nearly 150,000 copies of Neon.
Zac Brown Band has three albums selling remarkably well this week, the #5 You Get What You Give, the #13 The Foundation and in our interesting albums rundown, Pass The Jar…Zac Brown Band and Friends.
Kenny Chesney sold more CDs this week than last week and has now sold 916,000 copies of Hemingway’s Whiskey.
Lady Antebellum continues to sell copies of Need You Now but will lose the title of Best-selling country album released in 2010 to Taylor Swift’s Speak Now in the next week or two (with 7,000 copies separating them and Swift).
Lauren Alaina gained a 2% sales increase over last week’s sales and now has sold nearly 60,000 copies of her EP as “Like My Mother Does” finally hits Top 40 (and has a sweet new video too).
Average Joe’s Entertainment’s Kevin Fowler debuts at #19 with Chippin’ Away.
The interesting albums chart starts off with a look into The Civil Wars Barton Hollow. It has now sold 160,000 copies and given the band’s buzz, it might help them get a lot of Grammy Award nominations.
Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine gained in sales this week, a feat joined by Thompson Square as well.
Texas act Micky And The Motor Cars Raise My Glass debuts at #187 on the SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums chart this week.
Next week check back to see where Eli Young Band debuts. We expect an 80-100,000 sales week for them as their profile is very similar to Luke Bryan, Eric Church and Chris Young’s with Gold selling singles and lots of grassroots fan interaction.

LW	TW	Artist	Album	Sales TW	Sales Total
NEW	2	Luke Bryan	Tailgates & Tanlines	145,295	145,420
2	5	Eric Church	Chief	36,570	235,074
6	6	Jason Aldean	My Kinda Party	35,687	1,695,522
10	13	Blake Shelton	Red River Blue	21,304	241,438
25	19	Zac Brown Band	You Get What You Give	17,971	1,122,860

LW	TW	Artist	Album	Sales TW	Sales Total
3	21	Trace Adkins	Proud To Be Here	17,261	63,880
24	24	Brad Paisley	This Is Country Music	14,738	422,655
22	25	Taylor Swift	Speak Now	14,051	3,605,036
25	27	Scotty McCreery	American Idol/Highlights	13,532	132,518
23	29	Justin Moore	Outlaws Like Me	12,059	195,881

LW	TW	Artist	Album	Sales TW	Sales Total
32	33	The Band Perry	The Band Perry	12,022	702,785
23	35	Chris Young	Neon	11,610	144,308
72	42	Zac Brown Band	The Foundation	9,689	2,700,675
50	49	Various	Now Country IV	8,688	119,174
53	51	Kenny Chesney	Hemingway's Whiskey	8,400	916,270

LW	TW	Artist	Album	Sales TW	Sales Total
52	53	Lady Anthebellum	Need You Now	7,580	3,612,443
60	61	Rascal Flatts	Nothing Like This	6,675	939,551
85	76	Lauren Alaina	American Idol/Highlights	5,485	57,709
NEW	77	Kevin Fowler	Chippin' Away	5,463	5,499
68	79	Blake Shelton	Loaded…Best of Blake…	5,333	380,095

LW	TW	Artist	Album	Sales TW	Sales Total
103	100	The Civil Wars	Barton Hollow	4,134	159,707
156	138	Sugarland	The Incredible Machine	3,343	1,038,525
175	150	Thompson Square	Thompson Square	3,022	212,704
193	155	Zac Brown Band	Pass The Jar…	2,934	280,385
NEW	187	Micky & The Motorcars	Raise My Glass	2,401	2,479

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