Top Ten Recap
Kenny Chesney's The Big Revival leaps off the page at #6 this week with 10k fans taking home the album (for a total of 222k scanned so far). Darius Rucker debuts at #7 with Home For The Holidays, selling 9k of the album in October, a good month before most people even think of Christmas music. Blake Shelton's at #8 with Bringing Back The Sunshine while Wade Bowen debuts Top 10 with his self-titled album released independently. His previous album, The Given, was issued through Sony Nashville. Lady Antebellum's 747 rounds out the Top 10 this week and has sold 132k to date.
Notable Album Recap
Taylor Swift is a notable album with her 1.287 million seller 1989. That's a remarkable number and it goes to show how fans will still buy something if the artist makes it compelling enough to do so. Home Free's yuletide album Full Of Cheer debuts with 6,100 fans taking the album home while Stoney LaRue's Aviators debuts with 5,300 copies scanned. The Lacs' Nothing In Particular, a bits and bobs album of rarities sold 4,600k, the same amount as Miranda Lambert's nearly Gold Platinum, an album which will likely jump into the Top 10 next week thanks to the CMA Awards.
Sturgill Simpson's Meta Modern Sounds In Country Music remains a popular disc with sales now at 46,800 for the respected indie artist. Joey+Rory have sold more than 2,200 copies of Country Classics but it's the first time the disc has showed up on this rundown (it spent 5 months exclusively on Cracker Barrel shelves). Keith Urban's Fuse has now moved 401,500 copies while Scotty McCrerey's See You Tonight has moved 254,400.
Other notable album releases:
- Hunter Hayes Storyline up 51% with sales of 159k to date
- Dan+Shay Where It All Began up 2% with sales of 98k to date
- Chris Young A.M. up 34% with sales of 220k to date
- Brian Davis All About That Life EP debuts with 1k scanned
- LeAnn Rimes debuts with One Christmas: Chapter One selling 1,000 copies
- Lee Ann Womack has sold 8k copies of The Way I'm Livin' to date
- Brett Eldredge has sold 128k copies of Bring You Back to date
Top 5 Country Albums - November 5, 2014*
*Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest thousand.
| Top 200 | Artist | Album | Sales | Total |
| 3 | Sam Hunt | Montevallo | 70,000 | 70,000 |
| 5 | Jason Aldean | Old Boots, New Dirt | 43,000 | 468,000 |
| 6 | Florida Georgia Line | Anything Goes | 38,000 | 294,000 |
| 28 | Lttle Big Town | Pain Killer | 12,000 | 54,000 |
| 35 | Luke Bryan | Crash My Party | 10,000 | 2,189,000 |
Chris Godfrey
I hope I'm wrong but it does not look like Sam hunt is performing at the CMA's. I know he would not be up for any awards this year but he could still perform. The hottest new male artist of your genre and no invite to perform. Does not make sense. Any thoughts on this Matt?
Matt Bjorke
They wanted performance slots for Ariana Grande and Meghan Trainor, I guess. Trainor made a little sense cause she was/is based here and has songs recorded by country artists. Grande was just the CMA and/or TV Network trying to make "non-country" fans watch the show or afraid that the talent of Country (most of which is already very pop-leaning) wasn't strong enough to not have these 'special moments.'