Not much about sales this week to brag about for Country Music. Nearly every album sales week over week are down after the Easter sales rush.
Easter helped boost sales last week but this week those sales numbers have fallen flat with most albums experiencing double sales drops. The Top 5 is unchanged from last week with the exception of Jesse James Decker’s EP dropping from #5 to #11 and being replaced by the Digital live album from the soundtrack partner to “Nashville: On The Record.” The show may get middling ratings but its collection of music certainly benefits from the broadcast every week. At #1 is Luke Bryan, #3 is FGL, #4 is Eric Church and #5 is Johnny Cash with “Out Among The Stars.”
Dan+Shay, Martina McBride, Dierks Bentley, Cole Swindell, and Blake Shelton round out Top 10.
Blake Shelton leads the #6-#10 portion of this week’s chart with labelmates at Warner Brothers Nashville, the young stars Cole Swindell and Dan+Shay at #7 and #8 with their debut albums. Cole’s self-titled album remains the best-selling album from a new Country artist in 2014 while Dan+Shay have many accolades for thier project (and a Gold Single) as well. Dierks Bentley’s Riser jumps back inside the Top 10 for the first time in a few weeks while Martina McBride slides from #6 to #10 with “Everlasting,” her three week old album.
Notable albums include George Strait’s Love Is Everything, Jerrod Niemann’s High Noon and Eric Paslay, Scotty McCreery and more
This week’s notable section starts with George Strait’s 400k+ selling album Love Is Everything, Jerrod Niemann’s “High Noon” (which features new single “Donkey”) and six albums that didn’t make the Hot 200, a look at some of the rising stars including ELi Young Band’s 10,000 Towns, Scotty McCreery’s See You Tonight, Brett Eldredge’s Bring You Back and, now, Eric Paslay’s self-titled debut, an album which is one of only a handful of albums to score any sort of sales increase this week. Danielle Bradbery and Cassadee Pope’s latest are also chronicled though the total sales may be very similar to last week’s (we round up or down to nearest 1,000 so if the album sells less, it may be same # as last week).
Top 10 Country Albums for The Week of April 30, 2014 with 8 Notable Albums (SoundScan Top 200 Current Albums Chart Placement in First column, Country Rank in Second)*
*Top 10 Country Album Numbers rounded to nearest thousand, Outside Top 10 rounded to nearest Hundred.
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SS 07 08 15 16 34 55 60 62 84 86 99 143 -- -- -- -- -- -- |
CY 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 13 18 30 36 45 46 56 65 |
Artist Luke Bryan Nashville Cast Florida Georgia Line Eric Church Johnny Cash Blake Shelton Cole Swindell Dan+Shay Dierks Bentley Martina McBride Jerrod Niemann George Strait Eli Young Band Scotty McCreery Brett Eldredge Eric Paslay Danielle Bradbery Cassadee Pope |
Album Crash My Party Nashville: On The Record Here’s To the Good Times The Outsiders Out Among The Stars Based On A True Story Cole Swindell Where It All Began Riser Everlasting High Noon Love Is Everything 10,000 Towns See You Tonight Bring You Back Eric Paslay Danielle Bradbery Frame By Frame |
TW 19,000 18,000 13,000 12,000 7,000 5,000 5,000 5,000 4,000 4,000 3,400 2,600 1,900 1,600 1,200 1,200 1,000 700 |
Total 1,826,000 18,000 1,794,000 551,000 116,000 1,216,000 150,000 50,000 125,000 32,000 34,000 417,000 63,000 226,000 102,000 29,000 134,000 170,000 |
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