Country Album Chart News: The Week of January 15, 2013: With news on latest albums from Luke, Garth, Cassadee, Danielle and Scotty

The early part of January is always a tough few weeks for the Music business but perhaps no week is worse than the week chronicled in our rundown this week where the best-seller moved 16,000 copies. Get the full scoop -- as always -- about Country Music's Top 10 albums here!

Florida Georgia Line’s Here’s To The Good Times barely passes Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party to stand at #1 on our Top 10 Rundown this week..

With a differentail of less than 70 copies, Florida Georgia Line has surpassed Luke Bryan for the #1 Country album in the USA. Sales were just over 16k copies for both Here’s To The Good Times and Crash My Party, respectively. Garth Brooks’ Blame It All On My Roots box set sits at #3 and added another 12k to bring sales over 808k in just seven weeks on this chart.At #4 is Based On A True Story from Blake Shelton. The superstar’s album moved only 6k this week, which is likely the weakest week for releases every year (there were only a handful of new releases the first week of January). At #5 is Jason Aldean with Night Train. He, too, moved 6k this week and now has sales of 1.559 million copies for the 65 week old album.

Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum, Thomas Rhett Land in Top 10 with their latest albums.

with nearly 5k sold, Taylor Swift’s RED leads the #6-#10 portion of our rundown. The album has now moved 3.973 million to date. Lady Antebellum’s Golden sits next with sales of 4k this week while Thomas Rhett is at #8 with sales of 107k to date and 4k this week. Kacey Musgraves is at #9 with Same Trailer Different Park. The album has now moved 302k copies to date. Finally, rounding out the Top 10 is the seven week old self-titled release from Danielle Bradbery. The album has moved 107k to date and features Debut single “The Heart Of Dixie.”

 

The 5 Notables include Cassadee Pope’s debut Frame By Frame, and the latest albums from Scotty McCreery, Jake Owen and more.

Jake Owen’s Days of Gold is the first of this week’s notable album with sales for the six week old album at 93k. The album’s new single is called “Beachin’.” With 4k sold, Scotty McCreery’s sophomore album (and third overall) See You Tonight is at 187k sold to date. Parmalee’s Feels Like Carolina is next and features the #1 hit “Carolina” and the next single, “Close Your Eyes.” They have sold 37k copies of the album in 5 weeks on the charts. Cassadee Pope’s Frame By Frame is the fourth of our five final posts with sales now at 147k to date. Finally, we have George Strait’s Love Is Everything. The superstar, who just started his final tour, has now moved 380k since being released last year.

 

Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of January 15, 2014 with 5 Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW

14

07

14

50

60

61

68

105

74

86

29

95

134

63

120

168

TW

12

13

18

38

41

63

66

75

78

80

84

85

112

95

131

160

Artist

Florida Georgia Line

Luke Bryan

Garth Brooks

Blake Shelton

Jason Aldean

Taylor Swift

Lady Antebellum

Thomas Rhett

Kacey Musgraves

Danielle Bradbery

Jake Owen

Scotty McCreery

Parmalee

Cassadee Pope

George Strait

Album

Here’s To The Good Times

Crash My Party

Blame It All On My Roots

Based On A True Story

Night Train

RED

Golden/Golden Deluxe

It Goes Like This

Same Trailer Different Park

Danielle Bradbery

Days Of Gold

See You Tonight

Feels Like Carolina

Frame By Frame

Love Is Everything

TW

16,000

16,000

12,000

6,000

6,000

4,000

4,000

4,000

4,000

4,000

4,000

4,000

3,000

3,000

2,000

Total

1,570,000

1,580,000

808,000

1,122,000

1,559,000

3,973,000

558,000

107,000

302,000

106,000

93,000

187,000

37,000

147,000

380,000

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