Country Album Chart News: The Week of March 5, 2014: Dierks Bentley Debuts at #1 with "Riser"; Info on Danielle, Scotty, Hunter, Cassadee & Taylor's Latest Albums

With 63k sold, Dierks Bentley's RISER steals the #1 slot from UMG Nashville labelmate Eric Church's grasp for the first time since The Outsiders debuted 3 weeks ago with 2014's best debut of the year to date. Continue on here to see how the rest of the Top 10 and six notable releases fared for the week!

Dierks Bentley claims #1 this week with 63k copies of RISER sold. Eric Church surpasses 400k in 3 weeks while Cole Swindell holds down #3.

Four of the Top 5 Country Albums sold this week were in the Top 5 last week with only #1 debuting RISER from Dierks Bentley taking a slot from someone else (Jennifer Nettles). The rest of the Top 5 slides down one slot with Eric Church’s The Outsiders at #2 with sales of 405k to date while Cole Swindell has moved 83k in two weeks (if he had debuted this week, he would’ve just undersold Dierks for a #2 slot). Luke Bryan’s 1.7 million-seller Crash My Party sits at #4 while Florida Georgia Line’s 1.7 selling debut Here’s To The Good Times sits at #5.

Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean sit in Top 10, Garth Brooks returns after week away.

Based On A True Story gives Blake Shelton one of the few sales increases this week with sales now at nearly 1.2 million scanned while #7 is the 1.6 million selling Night Train from Jason Aldean. Jennifer Nettles 126k-selling That Girl is at #8 while Kacey Musgraves, her Mercury Nashville labelmate, is at #9 with Same Trailer, Different Park. Rounding out the Top 10 is Garth Brooks’ box set Blame It All On My Roots. Garth has sold 856k copies of the Walmart exclusive set since November 2013.

Hunter Hayes, Scotty McCreery, Cassadee Pope, and Danielle Bradbery lead the notable albums this week.

Hunter Hayes self-titled album leads the notable rundown this week with Scotty McCreery’s sophomore set right behind him. Both sets sold 3k this week. Next we have the Taylor Swift 4x Platinum RED and the narly Gold-certified True Believers from Darius Rucker. Finally, we have Cassadee Pope and Danielle Bradbery album updates for y’all.

Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of March 5, 2014 with 6 Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement)*

*Numbers rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW

00

02

03

19

20

54

50

45

51

76

96

107

104

134

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--

TW

06

07

15

22

24

49

51

53

62

81

111

113

121

135

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Artist

Dierks Bentley

Eric Church

Cole Swindell

Luke Bryan

Florida Georgia Line

Blake Shelton

Jason Aldean

Jennifer Nettles

Kacey Musgraves

Garth Brooks

Hunter Hayes

Scotty McCreery

Taylor Swift

Darius Rucker

Danielle Bradbery

Cassadee Pope

Album

RISER

The Outsiders

Cole Swindell

Crash My Party

Here’s To The Good Times

Based On A True Story

Night Train

That Girl

Same Trailer Different Park

Blame It All On My Roots

Hunter Hayes

See You Tonight

RED

True Believers

Danielle Bradbery

Frame By Frame

TW

63,000

43,000

19,000

14,000

14,000

6,000

6,000

6,000

5,000

4,000

3,000

4,000

3,000

3,000

2,000

2,000

Total

63,000

405,000

83,000

1,682,000

1,676,000

1,166,000

1,601,000

126,000

372,000

856,000

1,108,000

209,000

4,006,000

205,000

122,000

162,000

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