Sales Numbers aren’t as strong as Nothing Like This but they’re still strong enough to wrestle #1 away from last week’s champ, Lionel Richie.
Last week, Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee became a surpise hit with sales approaching 200k. This week he ‘fell’ 50% and ‘only’ sold 90k plus. That allowed country juggernauts Rascal Flatts to wrestle #1 away from Lionel, a feat that isn’t all that surprising given the trio sold 190K or so with Nothing Like This when it debuted in 2010. The trio’s ‘problem,’ then, seems that they ‘only’ sold 130k, this week and some will say it’s the band’s demise. I say it’s the lack of a single that drives fans enough to want to buy the album (“Banjo” is pretty typical RF fare whereas “Why Wait” from Nothing Like This wasn’t). If they had released the title track “Changed” (which has sold 100k copies in 3 weeks as a single, “Banjo,” 179k in 8, I have to believe that the album would’ve sold a lot more for the trio.
Lionel Richie Sales Still Strong
95,000 more fans took home Tuskegee to give Lionel nearly 300,000 albums sold in two weeks. The album remains 2012’s best-selling new album after just two weeks (it has outsold #3 album this week, The Hunger Games Soundtrack). Sitting #4 is Luke Bryan’s tailgates & tanlines album. Rounding out the Top 5 is Lady Antebellum’s Own The Night. Luke is at 928k while Lady A is at 1.55 million sold, respectively. Both have a string of singles on the Top 30 Digital Singles chart (click here to view) too!
The ACM Awards Drive Sales For ALL Top Stars
The top 10 albums country albums were more than ..." of the whole Top 30 in America this week with the Top 20 taking up 20 of the Top 95 albums as well. Leading the way in the second half of this week’s Top 10 are the usual suspects of Eric Church, Jason Aldean, Scotty McCreery, Miranda Lambert and The Band Perry. Lambert, fresh off of her third consecutive ACM win for Album of the Year (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Revolution were joined by Four The Record), scored a very strong jump on the chart, helping the sales scan past Gold. Scotty’s album officially scanned Platinum this week as well. Aldean moved past 2.5 million sold whiel Church’s Chief looks well on its way to Platinum (which would be a first for him).
Blake Shelton, Taylor Swift, Toby Keith lead notable Albums
TV seems to agree with Blake Shelton as he hosted the ACM’s one night and was on live shows for The Voice for two subsequent nights. His latest album Red River Blue, has sold 631k while Taylor Swift’s Speak Now has now sold 4.07 million copies. Toby Keith’s Clancy’s Tavern is a week or two away from scanning Gold, making 2011/2012 a nice pair of rebound years for the veteran star with the ACM Video of the Year award for “Red Solo Cup.” Southern Country/hip-hop band The Lacs sophomore album 190 Proof debuts at #66 overall with 7,000 copies sold, enough to give them a Top 20 country chart debut as well. Eli Young Band’s Life At Best rounds out the list of notable albums this week as they score a remarkable jump this week with a 46% sales increase. They’ve now sold 196,000 copies of the album which features ACM song of the year “Crazy Girl” and current rising hit “Even If It Breaks Your Heart.”
Other notable albums this week include Brantley Gilbert’s Halfway to Heaven (11,000 this week), Hunter Hayes’ self-titled album (Total now over 100,000 scanned) Tim McGraw’s Emotional Traffic album (9,000), Lauren Alaina’s Wildflower (3,000), Pistol Annies Hell On Heels (5,000) and Zac Brown Band’s You Get What You Give (7,000).
Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Six Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*
#3 - Rascal Flatts - Changed 130k (130,000)
#4 - Lionel Richie – Tuskegee 95k (294,000)
#7 - The Hunger Games - Original Soundtrack 50k (289,000)
#11 – Luke Bryan – tailgates & tanlines 36k (928,000)
#17 – Lady Antebellum – Own The Night 22k (1,555,000)
#19 – Eric Church – Chief 21k (705,000)
#20 – Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party 21k (2,500,000)
#22 – Scotty McCreery – Clear As Day 20k (1,016,000)
#23 – Miranda Lambert – Four The Record 19k (506,000)
#28 – The Band Perry – The Band Perry 16k (1,246,000)
#34 – Blake Shelton – Red River Blue 13k (631,000)
#64 – Taylor Swift – Speak Now 13k (4,067,000)
#49 – Toby Keith – Clancy’s Tavern 9k (488,000)
#87 – The Lacs - 190 Proof 7k (7,000)
#128 – Eli Young Band – Life At Best 5K (195,000)
There aren’t any clear major releases this week but we’ll come back and see how the #s look post-ACM awards or if the buzz from the award show manages to continue through the week. Also, the Lionel Richie show airs this Friday so we will look to see if that impacts sales on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for him at all (it likely will).
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