Country Album Chart News For February 27, 2013: Big Machine Label Group Dominates Chart This Week

Tim McGraw joins Taylor Swft and Florida Georgia Line in giving Big Machine Label Group the #1-3 slots on this week's Top 10 Country Albums Chart. Read on here to view the complete chart and see who made this week's Soundscan Top Country Albums Chart!

With no new single on the charts, the Top 10 remains virtually the same only with Eric Church “Chief” sliding into #10 instead of Zac Brown Band’s “Uncaged.”

Taylor Swift’s Quadruple Platinum album Red sits at #1 once again this week, with 28,000 albums finding fans this week while her labelmate Tim McGraw sits at #2 with 24,000 sold. He’s now moved 178,000. Florida Georgia Line sits at #3 with Here’s To The Good Times, which gives Big Machine Label Group the Top 3 albums on this chart. Hunter Hayes self-titled debut album sits at #4 on this chart while Little Big Town sits at #5 with Tornado.

Gary Allan Surpasses 200,000 albums sold in 5 weeks with Set You Free

With 15,000 more copies sold, Gary Allan’s Set You Free has moved 206,000 copies in those five short weeks while “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)” from the album nears Platinum for the effort. Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” has now sold 1.3 million albums and is #7 on this week’s rundown while Jason Aldean’s Night Train is nearly 1.2 million. Luke Bryan sits at #9 at with nearly 1.9 million sold. Rounding out the Top 10 is Eric Church’s 1.4 million-seller, Chief.

Connor Christian & Southern Gothic Debut on Chart With “New Hometown” album.

Randy Houser leads our five noteworthy albums outside of the Top 10 with his Stoney Creek Records debut (and third record overall) How Country Feels. The album has moved 54,000 copies in a month on the charts and new single “Running Outta Moonlight” should only help the album approach 100k and beyond in no time. Lee Brice and Dierks Bentley join the SoundScan chart rundown this week with their latest albums Hard 2 Love and Home, respectively. 

Self-released through their own Vintage Earth Records and distributed in the USA by Rocket Science Ventures and The Orchard, Connor Christian & Southern Gothic reamins near the top of the Billboard HeatSeekers chart with “New Hometown. Katie Armiger returns to this rundown as well with her breakout recording Fall Into Me. Also of note is the sales of Mindy McCready's Super Hits album, an album which sold 3,100 copies this week after the 1990s star passed away.

Next week we’ll see if The Mavericks and Jaida Dreyer can reach the upper level of the charts with their debut albums.

Top 10 Country Albums for This Week with five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW
4
12
29
17
25
24
27
36
39
45
69
new
168
107
000
TW
10
13
19
24
27
28
33
39
42
48
78
107
182
193
200
Artist
Taylor Swift
Tim McGraw
FloridaGeorgiaLine
Hunter Hayes
Little Big Town
Gary Allan
Carrie Underwood
Jason Aldean
Luke Bryan
Eric Church
Randy Houser
Lee Brice
Dierks Bentley
Connor Christian
Katie Armiger
Album
Red
Two Lanes Of...
Here’s To The...
Hunter Hayes
Torndado
Set You Free
Blown Away
Night Train
Tailgates & Tanlines
Chief
How Country Feels
Hard 2 Love
Home
New Hometown
Fall Into Me
TW
28,000
24,000
19,000
16,000
16,000
15,000
14,000
13,000
12,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
2,000
2,000
2,000
Total
3,464,000
178,000
338,000
651,000
741,000
206,000
1,323,000
1,149,000
1,864,000
1,397,000
55,000
345,000
258,000
7,000
21,000

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