Black Friday Sales Impact Whole Chart, Nearly All Country Stars Benefit With Massive Sales Gains, including Blake Shelton, with two albums in The Top 10.
Taylor Swift and Jason Aldean both land #1 and #2 on the SoundScan Top 10 Country Albums chart rundown this week but are joined in the Top 10 by three Christmas albums, the 2012 yuletide releases from Blake Shelton, Scotty McCreery and Lady Antebellum. Carrie Underwood rode the highest sales wave this week to score a remarkable bump back into the Top 10 with “Blown Away.” Shelton’s “Cheers It’s Christmas.” is #4 and is joined inside the Top 20 by Lady Antebellum’s “On This Winter’s Night” and “Scotty McCreery’s “Chrsitmas With Scotty McCreery,” giving country music artists 30% of the Top 20 albums.
Blake Shelton “Red River Blue,” Kenny Chesney’s “Fishbowl” Jump Into Top 10.
Luke Bryan has the #7 album this week with the 1.6 million seller “Tailgates & Tanlines” while Blake Shelton jumps 91 slots on the SoundScan Top 200 chart to #34 (#8 Country) with “Red River Blue,” benefitting from 2012 Black Friday sales in both digital and traditional retail marketplaces. Kenny Chesney’s Gold-selling “Welcome To The Fishbowl” has the second biggest sales jump this week climbing from #80 to #37 overall while Little Big Town’s “Tornado” rounds out the Top 10 rundown this week.
Hunter Hayes, Lionel Richie, Kip Moore lead Notable Recordings
Hunter Hayes slid down the charts this week but like most everyone on this chart, he scored a strong sales increase with his self-titled debut for Atlantic Records moving 121,000 copies away from Gold and with physical product in stores, look for an announcement of Gold for Hunter Hayes very shortly, helping to round out his 2012 as a remarkable breakthrough year. The 25th Very Special Christmas album has moved 33,000 copies while Lionel Richies Platinum-selling “Tuskegee” (for much of 2012 it was the best-selling country-related album) gaining sales as a gift item while George Strait and Alan Jackson’s ‘hits’ collections did the trick as well with fans picking up $1.99-$3.99 copies at Best Buy, Walmart and Target. Kip Moore’s “Up All Night” has now moved 241,000 copies. Rascal Flatts “Changed” has moved 410,000 copies, giving the modern legends 90,000 copies shy of yet another RIAA certification but like Hunter’s album, they’re likely to get certified Gold very shortly, something which has already happend for Scotty McCreery’s Christmas Recording.
Last week's only new release was Uncle Kracker's "Midnight Special" which rounds out the charts below with 4,000 sold. No real large releases will pepper the charts next week but in two weeks we’ll have Florida Georgia Line’s “Here’s To The Good Times” leading the newbies away and we strongly think there’s a chance at 100-200,000 copies sold in the opening week, which would be the biggest debut opening for a country duo ever and perhaps ever for a new artist. “Cruise” is that powerful of a single and is liked by nearly everyone.
Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with Five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*
*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.
LW TW Artist Album Sales TW Sales Total
2 2 Taylor Swift Red 185,000 2,079,000
13 8 Jason Aldean Night Train 103,000 788,000
34 12 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 74,000 1,010,000
20 17 Blake Shelton Cheers, It's Christmas. 53,000 150,000
17 18 Lady Antebellum On This Winter's Night 52,000 158,000
23 20 Scotty McCreery Christmas With Scotty 50,000 168,000
35 27 Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines 35,000 1,600,000
125 34 Blake Shelton Red River Blue 27,000 828,000
80 37 Kenny Chesney Welcome To The Fishbowl 26,000 535,000
28 38 Little Big Town Tornado 26,000 395,000
38 42 Eric Church Chief 23,000 1,186,000
40 47 Hunter Hayes Hunter Hayes 21,000 379,000
39 50 Toby Keith Hope On The Rocks 19,000 101,000
98 56 Various Artists Very Special Christmas 25 18,000 33,000
46 66 Zac Brown Band Uncaged 16,000 622,000
Re-Entry 74 Lionel Richie Tuskegee 13,000 1,049,000
Re-Entry 82 George Strait ICON 12,000 195,000
129 86 Kip Moore Up All Night 12,000 241,000
29 94 Aaron Lewis The Road 10,000 31,000
NEW 107 Alan Jackson Playlist: Best of Alan Jackson 9,000 13,000
Re-Entry 110 Gary Allan ICON 9,000 60,000
132 114 Rascal Flatts Changed 8,000 410,000
Re-Entry 121 Jake Owen Barefoot Blue Jean Night 8,000 363,000
Re-Entry 125 Josh Turner Punching Bag 8,000 163,000
195 129 Easton Corbin All Over The Road 7,000 75,000
84 130 Brantley Gilbert Halfway To Heaven 7,000 753,000
Re-Entry 132 Eli Young Band Life At Best 7,000 285,000
121 133 Miranda Lambert Four The Record 7,000 660,000
Re-Entry 144 Toby Keith Clancy's Tavern 7,000 599,000
106 163 Lee Brice Hard 2 Love 6,000 264,000
NEW 194 Uncle Kracker Midnight Special 5,000 5,000
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