Once again, Carrie Underwood’s album leads the country music charts for a third week (while sliding down to #3 on the Top 200 as fellow Idol alum Adam Lambert debuts at #1 with his album Trespass). Carrie has now scanned 441,000 albums.
Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee Remains Best-Seller!
As you know if you read these pages last week, Lionel Richie’s Tuskegee is Platinum-certified and has scanned 789,000 copies. Luke Bryan has the #3 seller this week with 22,000 more copies added to his platinum-plus sales mark for tailgates & tanlines. The previously mentioned Heroes from Willie Nelson, his return to Sony Music, sold 17,000 copies to land the #4 slot this week while Eric Church remains at #5 this week with Chief, a record which surpassed the 809k sales mark this week.
Kip Moore Has #1 Single in USA, Remains Top 10 with Up All Night
Jason Aldean’s 2.5 million seller My Kinda Party has 5 #1 hits while upstart Kip Moore’s Up All Night features his first #1 hit “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck.” That album has now moved 85,000 copies in a month on the chart while right behind him is Lee Brice’s Hard 2 Love has now sold nearly 100,000 copies. It too, features a #1 hit with “A Woman Like You.” Rascal Flatts’ Changed also features a #1 hit with “Banjo” and it is the #9 album on our tally this week. Ensuring that all the #6-#10 albums feature #1 hits, Lady Antebellum’s 1.6 million seller Own The Night rounds out the Top 10.
Tim McGraw Leads Notables this week
Brantley Gilbert’s Halfway To Heaven is the #11 best-selling country record this week while Hunter Hayes self-titled debut continues to roll up the charts. The “Wanted” and “Storm Warning” singer continues his upward momentum this week and has now sold 122,000 copies of the album. Eli Young Band’s Life At Best has sold 216k since being released last fall. Chris Young’s Neon has sold 316,000 and likely is on its way to Gold like The Man I Want To Be while Justin Moore is inching ever so close to Gold himself (which would be a career first for an album) as Outlaws Like Me has now sold 410,000 copies.
Other notable albums this week include Blake Shelton’s Red River Blue (7,000 copies sold this week), The Band Perry’s The Band Perry(6,000) Toby Keith’s Clancy’s Tavern (4,000), Tim McGraw’s Emotional Traffic (4,000), and Jake Owen’s Barefoot Blue Jean Night(3,000).
Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*
#3 - Carrie Underwood - Blown Away 54k (441,000)
#9 - Lionel Richie – Tuskegee 39k (789,000)
#14 – Luke Bryan – tailgates & tanlines 22k (1,079,000)
#18 - Willie Nelson - Heroes 17k (17,000)
#22 – Eric Church – Chief 15k (809,000)
#21 – Jason Aldean – My Kinda Party 14k (2,589,000)
#24 - Kip Moore - Up All Night 12k (85,000)
#21 - Lee Brice - Hard 2 Love 11k (98,000)
#31 – Rascal Flatts – Changed 10k (256,000)
#25 – Lady Antebellum – Own The Night 9k (1,622,000)
#47 – Brantley Gilbert - Halfway To Heaven 7k (573,000)
#100 – Hunter Hayes - Hunter Hayes (122,000)
#118 – Eli Young Band – Life At Best 7k (216,000)
#129 - Chris Young - Neon 3k (316,000)
#166 – Justin Moore – Outlaws Like Me 2K (118,000)
Next week we could see the arrival of a new record from up and coming Texas artists Rob Baird or Six Market Blvd. As always, check back here to find out how the numbers fare!
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