This will be not only a personal best for Bryan, but the highest sales week for a male Country artist since Kenny Chesneydebuted with 469,000 copies of The Road And The Radio back in 2005. It would also be the third largest sales week of 2013 - thus far the only 2013 releases to surpass the 450,000 mark have been Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience (968,000) and Jay Z's Magna Carta... Holy Grail (528,000).
Such high sales number have become fairly rare for Country acts. Since 2008, only four Country albums have sold more than 450,000 in a single week - one by Lady Antebellum (2010's Need You Now) and three by Taylor Swift (2008's Fearless, 2010's Speak Now, and last year's Red, both of which moved over 1,000,000 tracks their first week).
The new Billboard 200 chart will be revealed the morning of August 21.
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