With Luke Bryan's debut with Spring Break...Checkin' Out, Sam Hunt slides to the #2 slot on the Country Album Chart Report For March 18, 2015. Luke Bryan's album debuts with nearly 89k this week*, by far the best week for a country music release in 2015 to date while Hunt's Montevallo has now sold over 380k to date. Shania Twain sits #3 with Still The One: Live In Vegas. It has scanned nearly 11k in 2 weeks (somehow 1,300 copies sold before release week). #4 features Jason Aldean's Old Boots New Dirt by with sales now at over 867k to date while Luke Bryan's Spring Break...The Set List ZinePak debuts at #5 with 6,200 copies.
*Note: National Reports will likely report that Luke Bryan sold 95k with the Spring Break...Checkin' Out set. This total includes his ZinePak Spring Break...The Set List total which is separated on the country chart (but does contain the whole limited edition Checkin' Out set.)
Top Ten Recap
Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goes is at #6 with sales of 593.6k to date. Chase Rice is at #7 with Ignite The Night while Eric Church's The Outsiders is at #8 with sales at 873.4k to date. Aaron Watson's The Underdog has Carrie Underwood's Greatest Hits: Decade #1 slides from to hold down #9 while Miranda Lambert's Platinum sits at #10.
Notables
The Next 5 Eli Young Band's Turn It On EP debuting with 4.5k scanned, Luke Bryan's Crash My Party with sales just under 2.4 million while Zac Brown Band's Greatest Hits...So Far, Garth Brooks' Man Against Machine and Cole Swindell's self-titled album round out this section on the chart.Notables include the 150k selling Pain Killer from Little Big Town, Blake Shelton's Bringing Back The Sunshine, Aaron Watson's The Underdog, Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, Chris Young's A.M., Home Free's latest album and EPs from Old Dominion, RaeLynn and Kelsea Ballerini.Top 10 Country Albums - March 18, 2015
- Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest hundred.
| CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
| 1 | Luke Bryan | Spring Break...Checkin' Out | 88,800 | 88,800 |
| 2 | Sam Hunt | Montevallo | 15,200 | 380,200 |
| 3 | Shania Twain | Still The One: Live in Vegas | 8,600 | 19,300 |
| 4 | Jason Aldean | Old Boots New Dirt | 7,300 | 875,000 |
| 5 | Luke Bryan | Spring Br....Set List/ZinePak | 6,200 | 6,200 |
Brian Cole
I missed a few weeks, but here they are. CR=Rank among Country albums on BB200. Here are the Country titles as they are ranked on the Sales/SEA/TEA Hybrid Billboard 200 |CR|BB200| Title -- Artist | | 1 | 3 | Luke Bryan -- Spring Break...Checking Out | 106,000 units (88,800 albums) | | 2 | 15 | Sam Hunt -- Montevallo | | 3 | 34 | Florida-Georgia Line -- Anything Goes | | 4 | 35 | Carrie Underwood -- Greatest Hits: Decade #1 | | 5 | 37 | Jason Aldean -- Old Boots, New Dirt | | 6 | 45 | Luke Bryan -- Crash My Party | | 7 | 49 | Chase Rice -- Ignite The Night | | 8 | 51 | Eric Church -- The Outsiders | | 9 | 53 | Miranda Lambert -- Platinum | | 10| 55 | Shania Twain -- Still The One: Live From Las Vegas | (No SEA/TEA) | | 11| 61 | Zac Brown Band -- Greatest Hits So Far... | | 12| 66 | Cole Swindell -- Cole Swindell | | 13| 71 | Florida-Georgia Line -- Here's To The Good Times | | 14| 96 | Little Big Town | Pain Killer | | 15| 99 | Blake Shelton | Bring Back The Sunshine | | 16|106| Lee Brice | I Don't Dance | | 17|113| Eli Young Band | Turn It On EP | | 18|117| Tim McGraw | Sundown Heaven Town | | 19|123| Shania Twain | Greatest Hits | | 20|128| Brantley Gilbert | Just As I Am | | 21|132| Luke Bryan | Tailgates & Tanlines | | 22|134| Johnny Cash | The Legend Of Johnny Cash | | 23|135| Dierks Bentley | Riser | | 24|136| Kenny Chesney | The Big Revival | | 25|139| Blake Shelton | Based On A True Story | | 26|144| Thomas Rhett | It Goes Like This | | 27|151| Taylor Swift | Red | | 28|152| John Denver| The Best Of John Denver Live | | 29|169| Tim McGraw | Number One Hits | | 30|174| Blake Shelton | Red River Blue | | 31|176| Travis Tritt | The Very Best Of Travis Tritt | | 32|179| Chris Young | AM | | 33|183| Brett Eldridge | Bring You Back |