Country Album Chart News For March 20, 2013: Luke Bryan Spring Breaks To #1 Again; Shooter Jennings Debuts

Luke Bryan’s Spring Break...Here To Party remains at #1 on SoundScan’s Top 10 Cou Albums Chart with 60,000 more albums sold, While Tailgates & Tanlines is #8.

Another week, another spot at #1 for Luke Bryan as 60,000 more fans took a shine to his Spring Break...Here To Party compilation album. The record has now sold 211,000 copies in two weeks, which should mean that it’s a shoo-in for eventually hitting Gold in sales. The rest of this week’s Top 5 remains the same as last week with just albums moving around. #2 is Florida Georgia Line with the 411k seller Here’s To The Good Times. The album - which features “Cruise” and “Get Your Shine On” - should hit Gold sales in the next few weeks. #3 is the 3.5 million seller, Taylor Swift’s Red. #4 is Little Big Town’s Tornado, a record which is incing closer to becoming a Platinum seller thus proving that hard work and perseverance pays off for both artist and the record labels who believe in them. #5 is last week’s #4, Tim McGraw’s Two Lanes Of Freedom.

Night Train Keeps On Rolling For Aldean; Carrie Underwood Remains Blown Away By Album Sales.

In the second half of the Top 10, Jason Aldean leads the way with another 11,000 fans taking home his Night Train album, a similar number also take home Luke Bryan’s Tailgates & Tanlines, giving him two albums in the Top 10 this week. Hunter Hayes’ self-titled Gold-selling debut is 13,000 copies sold away from 700k while #9 seller, Carrie Underwood’s Blown Away” has now sold nearly. 1.4 million. That’s a sales number that Eric Church has already passed with Chief. Church is scheduled to release a live record in April and he rounds out this week’s Top 10.

Shooter Jennings, Jason Crabb and Steven Curtis Chapman notable chart debuts this week.

Thanks to a partnership with Cracker Barrel, Steven Curtis Chapman’s Deep Roots debuts this week with 8,000 copies sold. The record features country/roots takes on classic and contemporary Gospel hymns and features Ricky Skaggs amongst others. Country/Gospel artist Jason Crabb debuts with Love Is Everything, his sophomore solo-release which finds the reigning Dove Male Vocalist of the Year inside the Top 80 of the all-genre chart and Top 10 of the Top Selling Christian albums. Like A Rose, Ashley Monroe’s former Top 10 debut, is down this week and has cumulative sales of 15,000 copies. Shooter Jennings debuts  this week with his sophomore eOne Entertainment release The Other Life. He moves 4,000 copies while Dustin Lynch rounds out the rundown this week with his self-titled album having now sold 129,000 copies thanks to nearly Platinum-selling single “Cowboys & Angels” and current hit “She Cranks My Tractor.”

Next week we’ll see the arrival of the anticipated Kacey Musgraves release Same Trailer Different Park. As always, we’ll have the lowdown here.

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

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.