Top 5 Country Albums for the week of December 7, 2011
| LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
| 22 | 10 | Lady Anthebellum | Own The Night | 48,000 | 908,000 |
| 9 | 11 | Scotty McCreery | Clear As Day | 42,000 | 630,000 |
| 11 | 17 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now: World Tour | 35,000 | 112,000 |
| 37 | 26 | Jason Aldean | My Kinda Party | 25,000 | 2,077,000 |
| 17 | 30 | The Band Perry | The Band Perry | 22,000 | 935,000 |
Taylor Swift Leads Second Half of Country Top 10
With another 22,000 copies sold, Taylor Swift’s Speak Now (which has 6 singles featured on the album) has now sold nearly 3.8 million copies. Luke Bryan’s next with “Tailgates and Tanlines” having officially scanned past the gold mark and now is marching its way to Platinum. Toby Keith’s Clancy’s Tavern features #1 hit “Made In America” and fast rising viral hit “Red Solo Cup” (while very silly and ‘stupid’, we find ourselves liking the song quite a bit). Miranda Lambert’s Four The Record has now shipped a quarter of a million copies while Eric Church’s Chief is just 30,000 short of scanning Gold.
The Top 10 Country Albums for the week of December 7, 2011
| LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
| 39 | 31 | Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 22,000 | 3,798,000 |
| 42 | 32 | Luke Bryan | Tailgates & Tanlines | 21,000 | 516,000 |
| 33 | 35 | Toby Keith | Clancy's Tavern | 21,000 | 197,000 |
| 45 | 39 | Miranda Lambert | Four The Record | 19,000 | 258,000 |
| 78 | 62 | Eric Church | Chief | 12,000 | 470,000 |
Blake Shelton Leads 5 Interesting Albums This Week
Blake Shelton’s less than 60,000 copies away from his own Gold album for Red River Blue (his Hits collection is close too). Lauren Alaina’s now at 172,000 copies sold for Wildflower, her debut post-Idol album. Brad Paisley’s now scanned over 561,000 copies of This is Country Music while Eleven from Martina McBride has hit 100,000 copies sold. The various artist Now Country IV rounds out the rundown this week with over 210,000 copies sold of the compilation.
Five interesting albums for the week of December 7, 2011
| LW | TW | Artist | Album | Sales TW | Sales Total |
| 46 | 63 | Blake Shelton | Red River Blue | 11,000 | 441,061 |
| 65 | 71 | Lauren Alaina | Wildflower | 10,000 | 172,000 |
| 107 | 84 | Brad Paisley | This Is Country Music | 8,000 | 561,000 |
| 132 | 113 | Martina McBride | Eleven | 6,000 | 104,000 |
| 153 | 121 | Various | Now Country IV | 5,000 | 210,112 |
A few more interesting facts for SoundScan’s December 7, 2011 Top Current Albums Chart:
- The Civil Wars are one of the few bands to see traction last week (without being a Christmas music album). They’ve now sold 222,000 copies of Barton Hollow in 44 weeks on the chart – all of this without a true ‘hit’, though “Poison & Wine” comes close. They were nominated for two Grammy Awards last week.
- Justin Moore has sold 309,000 copies of Outlaws Like Me.
- Jake Owen has sold 133,000 copies of Barefoot Blue Jean Night.
- Chris Young’s Neon has moved 231,000 copies.
- Eli Young Band has sold 130,000 copies of Life at Best.
Next week we’ll see if the ACA Awards helped album sales at all or if it was purely a tv spectacle.
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