Country Album Chart News: The Week of March 26, 2014: Luke Bryan "Spring Break 6" and "Crash My Party" Top 5; News on Rising Stars Scotty McCreery, Cassadee Pope & more

Luke Bryan once-again holds down fort with two of the Top 5 albums this week with his latest Spring Break EP and his Crash My Party album. Get the full scoop about the Top 10 Country Albums This Week along with 8 notables including the debut of JoDee Messina's latest effort, Me!

Eric Church managed to outsell Luke Bryan by just over 300 albums to return to #1 this week as the only major new release was the annual ACM Awards ZinePak preview available at Walmart stores nationwide.

Eric Church is nearly Gold with the wonderful The Outsiders and with no big artist releases this week, he slides past last week’s #1, Luke Bry (by just 300+ copies) to snag the pole position this week. (He has sold 92k in those two weeks.) At #2, of course, is the Digital EP from Luke Bryan, the latest Spring Break EP, Spring Break 6...Like We Ain’t Ever. At #3 is Here’s TO The Good Times from Florida Georgia Line and at #4 is Luke’s standard album Crash My Party. Rounding out the top 5 is the always fun ACM ZinePak! It’s fantastic with fun stories, interviews and more, in additon to two CDs for only $10 (this message brought to you by Roughstock, ha!).

Cole Swindell, Dierks Bentley, Jason Aldean, Sara Evans and Blake Shelton round out Top 10 this week.

Cole Swindell’s self-titled debut album sits at #6 for a nother week with sales now at 118k total while sophomore single “Hope You Get Lonely Tonight” rises the charts. At #7 this week is Last week’s #2, Sara Evans’ “Slow Me Down” project. It has now moved 38k in two weeks while Dierks Bentley has sold 100k in one month to hold down #8 this week (the same week the album’s lead single “I Hold On” hits #1 on the airplay charts). at #9 is Jason Aldean’s “Night Train.” The album has now sold over 1.6 million copies since being released in 2012. ACM Album of the Year Nominee Based On A True Story rounds out the Top 10 this week and has sold nearly 1.2 million copies for Blake Shelton. It is the best-selling album of his career to date.

Eli Young Band, Kacey Musgraves, Zac Brown Band, Scotty McCreery, Cassadee Pope, and Danielle Bradbery lead the notable albums this week. JoDee Messina’s “Me” debuts!

Eli Young Band’s 10,000 Towns album leads our notable rundown this week with sales of 50k in three weeks of release. Kacey Musgraves Same Trailer Different Park is next and has sold 384k to date while Zac Brown Band’s Uncaged has moved 1.049 million to date. Jo Dee Messina’s first album outside of Curb Records, Me, sold 2,600 copies in its first week to land a slot on our rundown this week while Taylor swift’s 4x Platinum RED did as well. Finally We have the latest news on Scotty McCreery, Danielle Bradbery and Cassadee Pope’s latest record releases in our chart below.

Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of March 26, 2014 with 6 Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

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10

02

19

18

00

24

09

26

66

57

34

81

121

00

145

130

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--

TW

14

15

24

25

28

32

34

43

66

73

75

103

112

156

166

175

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Artist

Eric Church

Luke Bryan

Florida Georgia Line

Luke Bryan

ACM ZinePak

Cole Swindell

Sara Evans

Dierks Bentley

Jason Aldean

Blake Shelton

Eli Young Band

Kacey Musgraves

Zac Brown Band

Jo Dee Messina

Taylor Swift

Scotty McCreery

Danielle Bradbery

Casadee Pope

Album

The Outsiders

Spring Break 6: Like We…

Here’s To The Good Times

Crash My Party

2014 ACM Awards ZinePak

Cole Swindell

Slow Me Down

Riser

Night Train

Based On A True Story

10,000 Towns

Same Trailer Different Park

Uncaged

Me

RED

See You Tonight

Danielle Bradbery

Frame By Frame

TW

18,000

18,000

14,000

14,000

13,000

11,000

11,000

8,000

5,000

5,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

2,600

2,500

2,300

1,600

1,200

Total

476,000

92,000

1,718,000

1,724,000

13,000

118,000

38,000

100,000

1,616,000

1,182,000

50,000

384,000

1,049,000

2,600

4,017,000

217,000

128,000

165,000

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