Top 5 Country Albums for the week of November 30, 2011
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
13 | 9 | Scotty McCreery | Clear As Day | 88,000 | 587,000 |
NEW | 11 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now: World Tour | 77,000 | 77,000 |
35 | 17 | The Band Perry | The Band Perry | 53,000 | 913,000 |
16 | 22 | Lady Anthebellum | Own The Night | 46,000 | 860,000 |
30 | 33 | Toby Keith | Clancy's Tavern | 33,000 | 176,000 |
Tim McGraw Scores Remarkable 755% Sales Increase over last week!
Jason Aldean falls out of the Top 5 but that doesn’t mean he didn’t score a sales incresase over last week (only Miranda Lambert had a negative sales # this past week and it was barely negative). My Kinda Party leads the second half of the Top 10 Current Country Albums, according to SoundScan. Following him are Taylor Swift’s 2010 album Speak Now, now nearing 4x platinum and another holiday sale surprise, Tim McGraw’s 2010 double disc collection of #1 hits, called Number One Hits. The album scored an impressive 755% sales increase to jump back into the all-genre Top 40 with just-over 26,000 copies sold. The album sold only 3,000 copies the week before. It’s nearly Platinum now (double albums at 500k sold are Platinum albums according to RIAA). Following Tim on the Top 5 is the Gold Tailgates and Tanlines from Luke Bryan. Lambert’s Four The Record rounds out the Top 10 and has now sold nearly a quarter of a million albums since being released 4 weeks ago.
Top 10 Country Albums for the week of November 30, 2011
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
29 | 37 | Jason Aldean | My Kinda Party | 28,000 | 2,051,000 |
45 | 39 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 27,000 | 3,777,000 |
156 | 40 | Tim McGraw | Number One Hits | 26,000 | 484,000 |
26 | 42 | Luke Bryan | Tailgates & Tanlines | 26,000 | 495,000 |
20 | 45 | Miranda Lambert | Four The Record | 24,000 | 239,000 |
Blake Shelton, Eric Church and Billy Currington are Nearly Gold!
With nearly 500,000 copies sold, Red River Blue, Chief, and Enjoy Yourself from Blake Shelton, Eric Church and Billy Currington, respectively, have all nearly hit the magical Gold-selling sales mark with their latest albums. Shelton and Church’s albums were released this past summer while Currington’s is over a year old. All three are joined the 11-15 Best-selling Country albums range this week by King George Strait himself and Scotty McCreery’s Idol runner-up, Lauren Alaina. Both of the UMG Nashville artists scored strong double digit percent increases in sales over the previous week while Currington – also a UMG Nashville artist – scored a 412% sales increase!
Top 15 Country Albums for the week of November 30, 2011
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
53 | 46 | Blake Shelton | Red River Blue | 24,000 | 430,000 |
65 | 59 | George Strait | Here For A Good Time | 19,000 | 266,000 |
68 | 65 | Lauren Alaina | Wildflower | 18,000 | 162,000 |
46 | 78 | Eric Church | Chief | 14,000 | 459,000 |
194 | 85 | Billy Currington | Enjoy Yourself | 13,000 | 425,000 |
Sara Evans Gets Stronger while Blake Shelton’s Loaded…Best of Rebounds
Sara Evans rebounds on the chart this week to land inside the country Top 20 this week with a 351% sales increase. Blake Shelton hit inside the chart as well this week as his Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton from 2010 scored a 248% sales increase getting him closer to another Gold record, this one for the Greatest Hits album. Zac Brown Band’s You Get What You Give seemingly tumbled on the chart this week, along with Brantley Gilbert’s Halfway To Heaven but both albums experienced sales increases over last week, they just ‘tumbled’ due to bigger sales for other albums mentioned above. Rounding out the Top 20, with a 153% sales increase over last week, is Jake Owen’s Barefoot Blue Jean Night.
Top 20 Country Albums for the week of November 30, 2011.
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
175 | 87 | Sara Evans | Stronger | 13,000 | 323,000 |
90 | 91 | Brantley Gilbert | Halfway to Heaven | 12,000 | 325,000 |
144 | 92 | Blake Shelton | Loaded: The Best of… | 12,000 | 443,000 |
62 | 97 | Zac Brown Band | You Get What You Give | 11,000 | 1,272,000 |
115 | 98 | Jake Owen | Barefoot Blue Jean Night | 11,000 | 158,000 |
Keith Urban Get’s Closer to Sugarland in This Week’s Interesting Albums rundown.
With a 186% sales increase, Sugarland’s The Incredible Machine returns to the Top 200 Current Albums chart provided by Soundscan and now has sold nearly 1.1 million albums while Get Closer, the 2010 album from Keith Urban (with 3 #1 hits) returns to the chart with a 310% sales increase over last week moving over 6,000 albums after only selling 1,400 copies of the album last week. Martina McBride’s Eleven has now sold nearly 100,000 copies while Vince Gill and David Nail round-out the interesting albums section with their recently released, critically acclaimed albums for MCA Records.
Five Interesting Albums for the week of November 30, 2011
LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
82 | 132 | Martina McBride | Eleven | 7,000 | 98,000 |
re-enter | 137 | Sugarland | Incredible Machine | 7,000 | 1,079,000 |
re-enter | 147 | Keith Urban | Get Closer | 6,000 | 664,000 |
88 | 168 | Vince Gill | Guitar Slinger | 5,000 | 48,000 |
44 | 177 | David Nail | Sound of a Million Dreams | 5,000 | 18,000 |
More Interesting Chart facts for the week of November30, 2011
- There was nearly double the amount of albums sold in the SoundScan top 200 Albums last week vs. the previous week, over 2,000,000 albums more.
- Eli Young Band scored a 145% sales increase for Life At Best, home to the recent #1 hit "Crazy Girl."
- The Pistol Annie's Hell On Heels has now sold over 160,000 albums, all of this w/o a real radio hit.
- Rascal Flatts’ Nothing Like This slid right behind David Nail on the chart yet they had a 33% sales increase for their album which features #1 hits “Why Wait,” “I Won’t Let Go” and Top 5 hit “Easy.”
- Kenny Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey, another 2010 release slid on the Top 200 album chart 71 places this week yet the album has sold 5% more than the previous week.
- Country related albums from the Civil Wars, Needtobreathe and Ryan Adams found audiences as well.
Next week we’ll see if the sales book continues to make strides or if the ‘lackluster’ amount of big releases (like a proper Taylor Swift album) will keep the chart from equaling the strong 2010 sales year end for Country Music. As usual, check back here for all of the facts you need to know!
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