Country Album Chart News: The Week of June 19, 2013: Florida Georgia Line Scores First Week At #1

For the first time in their career, Florida Georgia Line has a #1 album on the Top Country Albums chart this week, the 27th week of release for Here's To The Good Times. Take a look here to see the complete Top 10 and five Notable albums on this week's chart!

It took them 27 weeks but Florida Georgia Line gets the last thing that’s eluded them, the Top-selling album on the Country Album Sales chart tihs week as Father’s Day helped the duo outsell Darius Rucker by less than 1,000 copies to take the pole position.

With 33k sold Florida Georgia Line does indeed hold the #1 slot for the first time on the Roughstock Top 10 Album Sales Chart this week. The duo’s debut album Here’s To The Good Times has now sold 727k. Capitol Nashville’s Darius Rucker nearly held out for #1 himself with sales less than 700 copie  between #1 and #2. True Believers has now sold 191k in one month on the charts. Blake Shelton’s Based On A True Story slips to #3 but is still well-positioned to be the superstar’s second consecutive Platinum album with a strong shot at multi-platinum. Rounding out the Top 5 is George Strait with Love Is Everything. King Geroge has now sold 235k in 5 weeks on the charts. Look for a new single from the album to hit radio soon.

Top 5 Albums in Top 20 of Billboard’s® Hot 200 Albums Chart, Top 10 inside Top 50, lead by Lady Antebellum’s “Golden”.

In six weeks, Lady Antebellum has moved 320k copies of Golden, their fourth studio album for Capitol Nashville. The trio is expected to take a few months off this year for Hillary Scott’s maternity leave. The #7 albun this week is Kenny Chesney’s Life On A Rock. The album has sold 285k in 7 weeks and had a slight 1% sales increase over last week while Pistol Annies - who are taking a quick break for undisclosed reasons - have six week old Annie Up at #8. Republic Nashville’s The Band Perry are at #9 with Pioneer and have sold 351k in 11 weeks while Taylor Swift rounds out the Top 10 with RED, which has taken 34 weeks to sell over 3.7 million copies.

Brad Paisley Leads Notable Albums with Father’s Day Sales Increase of 20%, Each of the five notable albums experienced strong Father’s Day and iTunes-Sourced sales increases.

With a sales increas of 20%, Brad Paisley moved 9k copies of Wheelhouse this week. He’s now sold 216k in 10 weeks on the chart. Tim McGraw’s Two Lanes Of Freedom also sold 9k last week, with total sales now at 362k after 19 weeks. Kacey Musgraves critically-acclaimed Same Trailer Different Park debut album has sold 151k copies in 13 weeks, not bad for a previously unknown singer. her album experienced a 16% sales increase this week while Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged sold 5k copies this week with sales now at 881k 3 weeks away from the album’s 1 year release anniversary. Finally, Jake Owen continues to find his way closer to a Gold-certified album with breakout record Barefoot Blue Jean Night selling 109% more than last week bringing scanned sales to 435k (it’s nearly Gold for shipped copies to stores).

Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of June 19, 2013 with five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW

08

05

04

00

15

17

30

30

37

33

55

44

61

90

190

TW

05

06

07

16

20

22

36

33

45

46

50

52

61

89

97

Artist

Florida Georgia Line

Darius Rucker

Blake Shelton

Various Artists

George Strait

Lady Antebellum

Kenny Chesney

Pistol Annies

The Band Perry

Taylor Swift

Brad Paisley

Tim McGraw

Kacey Musgraves

Zac Brown Band

Jake Owen

Album

Heres To The Good Times

True Believers

Based On A True Story

Now Country 6

Love is Everything

Golden

Life On A Rock

Annie Up

Pioneer

RED

Wheelhouse

Two Lanes Of Freedom

Same Trailer Different Park

Uncaged

Barefoot Blue Jean Night

TW

33,000

33,000

31,000

23,000

19,000

18,000

12,000

11,000

10,000

9,000

9,000

9,000

8,000

5,000

5,000

Total

727,000

191,000

655,000

23,000

235,000

320,000

285,000

166,000

351,000

3,706,000

216,000

362,000

152,000

881,000

435,000

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