Just like last week, Sam Hunt sits at #1 on the Country Album Chart Report For January 28, 2015. Montevallo has now sold nearly 275k to date and outsold the #2 album, Jason Aldean's Old Boots New Dirt by nearky 6000 copies. Carrie Underwood's Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is officially Gold with scanned sales of the two disc compilation of her biggest hits at 253k to date. Thanks to an iTunes sale and an appearance on Saturday Night Live, Blake Shelton's Bringing Back The Sunshine sits at #4 (it was #16 last week) with sales of 9,100. That brings the album across the 300k threshold. Rounding out the Top 5 is Garth Brooks' Platinum-certified Man Against Machine. The album has now scanned nearly 570k copies to date.
Top Ten Recap
Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goessits at #6 this week with sales at 541k to date. Luke Bryan is now up to 2.359 million copies scanned for his dynamic Crash My Party album. The album is on its way to setting a record in country music history with 6 #1 singles (bypassing great albums from Rodney Crowell and Tim McGraw to have achieved the feat). Eric Church is at #8 this week with The Outsiders.The album contains this week's #1 Radio single in "Talladega." at #9 is Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds In Country Music. The album is up for a Grammy next month while also helping the artist secure a major label deal with Atlantic Records (in NY/LA). Rounding out the Top 10 is Chase Rice's Ignite The Night album.
The Next 5/Notables
Brett eldredge leads The Next 5 with Bring You Back, his debut album. He's now scanned neary 155k copies of the project. Zac Brown Band's Greatest Hits...So Far surpassed the 100k scanned mark this week while Miranda Lambert's Platinum edges closer to 620k scanned. Ralph Stanley debuts with his collaborative Cracker Barrel-exclusive Man Of Constant Sorrow. Rounding out The Next 5 is George Strait's The Cowboy Rides Away...Live album.In other notable news, Brad Paisley's Moonshine In The Trunk is at nearly 155k scanned while Kenny Chesney's The Big Revival has sold more than double that. Brantley Gilbert's Just As I Am is up to 722k scanned while Little Big Town's Pain Killer has scanned over 130k and rising thanks to stalwart single "Girl Crush." Dustin Lynch's Where It's At has sold over 86k to date, already a number approaching what his debut album for Broken Bow Records scanned. Justin Moore's Off The Beaten Path has scanned nearly 336k to date making it a long shot to hit Gold in the near future like his first two albums did (but eventually it will if he continues to have hit singles). Keith Urban's Fuse is at 430k scanned while Eli Young Band rounds up the notable section with 10,000 Towns having scanned nearly 95k to date.Top 10 Country Albums - January 28, 2015
- Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest hundred.
| CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
| 1 | Sam Hunt | Montevallo | 16,400 | 273,600 |
| 2 | Jason Aldean | Old Boots New Dirt | 10,500 | 807,600 |
| 3 | Carrie Underwood | Greatest Hits: Decade #1 | 9,300 | 253,000 |
| 4 | Blake Shelton | Bringing Back The Sunshine | 9,100 | 307,900 |
| 5 | Garth Brooks | Man Against Machine | 8,600 | 569,500 |
acapellaluv
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Brian Cole
I'll work on the Top Ten Country Hybrid Sales/SEA/TEA Albums Chart, the one that lines up with the Billboard 200 tomorrow.
Carrie
GooglePlus was giving away Blake's cd for free and he STILL only sold 9000- yikes! I don't understand the rating system. How can Carrie have a gold album w/ 253,000 sold? Maybe at 450,000 you could give it to her but this ships out system is ridiculous. Nothing against Carrie but the music industry is crazy.
Matt Bjorke
If the album is given away by GooglePlus it cannot count on the Billboard sales chart UNLESS Google bought the albums at full wholesale prices. As for Carrie, it's GOLD because it's two discs and the RIAA certifies double disc albums at 250k copies sold for Gold, 500k for Platinum and one million for multi-platinum.