Country Album Chart News: The Week of July 17, 2013: Travis Tritt, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean, Blake Shelton, Hunter Hayes, Mud Digger 4

Luke Bryan makes his return to the Top 10 Country Albums chart this week with Tailgates & tanlines, his Double Platinum selling album. Luke is joined by virtually all the top stars of Country's charts in this Top 10 rundown. Find out all of the specific chart sales details for Country's Top 10 albums here!

Florida Georgia Line Sales Up, stay at #1 on Roughstock’s Top 10 Country Album Sales Chart this week while the lone new album is Travis Tritt’s expanded Calm After... album.

Florida Georgia Line remains in the SoundScan Top 200 Albums chart’s Top 5 with Here’s To The Good Times, a mark which is good enough to hold onto this week’s #1 slot on our Top 10 Country Album Chart rundown. Blake Shelton retains the #2 slot while Darius Rucker and Hunter Hayes hold this week at the #3 and #4 slots with their latest albums True Believers and Hunter Hayes (ENCORE!), respectively. Finally, Talyor Swift's RED jumps back to the Top 5 with the only album to gain a sales % over last week's.

Lady Antebellum, George Strait lead the #6-#10 slots on this week chart with Golden and Love Is Everything, respectively. Luke Bryan’s Tailgates & Tanlines returns to Top 10.

The second half of this week’s Roughstock Top 10 Country Albums chart features Lady Antebellum’s Golden at #6, with Now That’s What I Call Country Volume 6 at #7. At #8 is Jason Aldean’s 1.3 Million selling album Night Train, the only other album outside of Taylor Swift’s RED to sell more this week than last week. Sitting at #9 is the latest record from George Strait -- his 55th -- Love Is Everything. Finally, The Top 10 is rounded out by Luke Bryan’s Double Platinum album tailgates & tanlines.

Notable albums include rising stars Kacey Musgraves, Randy Houser, last week’s Top 10 Mud Digger 4 Compilation and Travis Tritt’s The Calm After... album debut.

Leading our notable albums rundown this week is The Band Perry’s Pioneer. The album has moved 6k more copies this week to bring the album featuring “Better Dig Two” and “DONE.” to 379k sold in 15 weeks on the chart. Kacey Musgraves critically-acclaimed Same Trailer Different Park sits next on our rundown and she’s now moved 175k copies of the album which features Gold Top 10 single “Merry Go Round” and current rising hit “Blowin’ Smoke.” Average Joes Entertainment’s latest Mud Digger compilation, #4 in the series, has moved 12k in two weeks. Finally, Travis Tritt’s reboot of The Storm -- his last album release from 2007 -- is released through his own label and moves over 2k copies in its premiere week on the charts as The Calm After...

Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of July 17, 2013 with five Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW

05

10

15

17

38

28

25

53

40

55

50

62

39

113

00

TW

05

14

15

16

29

31

35

43

45

49

55

72

97

110

192

Artist

Florida Georgia Line

Blake Shelton

Darius Rucker

Hunter Hayes

Taylor Swift

Lady Antebellum

Various Artists

Jason Aldean

George Strait

Luke Bryan

The Band Perry

Kacey Musgraves

Mud Digger

Randy Houser

Travis Tritt

Album

Here’s To The Good Times

Based On A True Story

True Believers

Hunter Hayes (Encore)

RED

Golden

Now Country 6

Night Train

Love is Everything

Tailgates & Tanlines

Pioneer

Same Trailer Different Park

Mud Digger 4/Average Joes Ent.

How Country Feels

Calm After...

TW

33,000

17,000

16,000

14,000

9,000

8,000

8,000

7,000

7,000

6,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,000

Total

856,000

742,000

267,000

881,000

3,740,000

364,000

74,000

1,342,000

270,000

2,058,000

379,000

175,000

12,000

121,000

2,000

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