August 10 Chart News: Eric Church Remains the Chief

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August 10 Chart News: Eric Church Remains the Chief

For the second week in a row, we find Eric Church leading the way in country music as Chief remains the top-selling country album in the USA. Read on to find out where albums from Trace Adkins, Blake Shelton, The Band Perry and more landed in this week's rundown.

For the second week in a row, Eric Church has the #1 country album in the world with Chief. The album also sits at #2 this week on the SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums chart from which our weekly rundowns occur.

Here are a few notes from this week’s charts:

  • 1/3 of the Top 30 albums on the SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums chart are country music albums.
  • Eric Church has sold nearly 200,000 copies of Chief in two weeks.
  • Trace Adkins sells nearly 50,000 copies of Proud To Be Here. Roughly where debuted with Cowboy’s Back In Town in August 2010.
  • Jason Aldean has sold nearly 1.7 million copies of My Kinda Party.
  • Zac Brown Band has now sold over 1.1 million copies of You Get What You Give.
  • Justin Moore has sold over 183,000 copies of Outlaws Like Me.
  • Lady Antebellum has sold 3.6 million copies of Need You Now.
  • Rascal Flatts is nearing platinum (scanned) for Nothing Like This.
  • Nearly 2.7 million copies of The Foundation have been sold since Zac Brown Band released the album 3 years ago.
  • Lauren Alaina has now sold over  50,000 copies of her Walmart-exclusive American Idol Season 10 Highlights EP. It features “Like My Mother Does.”
  • Alison Krauss and Union Station experienced a 17% sales increase over last week as their album now has sold
  • Colt Ford will hit the 100,000 sold mark in about three weeks with Every Chance I Get.
  • Darius Rucker’s Charleston, SC 1966 has now scanned Gold.

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
1 2 Eric Church Chief 53,491 198,504
NEW 3 Trace Adkins Proud To Be Here 46,562 46,619
6 7 Jason Aldean My Kinda Party 40,911 1,659,835
12 15 Blake Shelton Red River Blue 25,675 220,134
25 20 Scotty McCreery American Idol/Highlights 16,818 118,986

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
15 23 Chris Young Neon 15,432 132,698
24 24 Brad Paisley This Is Country Music 15,053 407,917
22 25 Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give 14,820 1,104,889
25 27 Taylor Swift Speak Now 14,188 3,590,985
23 29 Justin Moore Outlaws Like Me 13,662 183,822
LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
31 32 The Band Perry The Band Perry 12,598 690,763
45 50 Various Now Country IV 8,361 110,486
44 52 Lady Anthebellum Need You Now 8,292 3,604,863
49 53 Kenny Chesney  Hemingway's Whiskey 8,128 907,870
57 60 Rascal Flatts Nothing Like This 7,029 932,876

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
62 68 Blake Shelton Loaded…Best of Blake… 6,155 374,762
61 72 Zac Brown Band The Foundation 5,966 2,690,986
67 81 Ronnie Dunn Ronnie Dunn 5,416 117,328
82 85 Lauren Alaina American Idol/Highlights 5,317 52,377
98 107 Tim McGraw Number One Hits 4,387 410,894

 

LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
88 110 Sara Evans Stronger 4,339 263,076
129 117 Alison Krauss/Union Station Paper Airplane 3,970 263,825
140 151 Colt Ford Every Chance I Get 3,239 90,329
135 156 Sugarland The Incredible Machine 3,095 1,035,182
155 173 Darius Rucker Charlseton, SC 1966 2,865 502,172

Next week check back here to see where “Country Girl (Shake It For Me)” singer/songwriter Luke Bryan lands with his third Capitol Nashville album. Kevin Fowler’s Chippin’ Away will debut next week as well. As always check back here to see where they land. We predict Luke Bryan will sell 80,000-100,000 while Fowler will sell 3-5,000 copies.

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