Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015

Kacey Musgraves rips #1 from labelmate Easton Corbin by less than two thousand albums in this special 11 day tracking report from SoundScan and RoughStock!

The top-selling country album for a second week is Kacey Musgraves' Pageant Material. Because of the 11 day tracking period, that means that Easton Corbin's About To Get Real retains the #1 for last week's chart but may get scrubbed in the future because of the chart moves due to the Friday world release day move. However the news from last Wendesday still holds true for Easton and he gets to celebrate having the #1 album on the Albums Chart (nearly 27k scanned). At #3 for the Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015 is Sam Hunt's Montevallo. It sits at #3 with sales now at nearly 633k to date while Zac Brown Band's Jekyll + Hyde sits at #4 with 436k to date. Sitting at #5 is Now Country 8. It has scanned over 62k in four weeks on the chart.

Top Ten Recap

Little Big Town sits at #6 with Pain Killer, a record which has scanned 287k to date. Landing at #7 is the Platinum-certified The Outsiders from Eric Church (1.001 million scanned to date). Brantley Gilbert's Just As I Am sits at #8 with 862k scanned while Jason Aldean's Old Boots, New Dirt. It is certified Platinum and has scanned 992k to date while holding down #9 this week. Rounding out the Top 10 of the Country Album Chart Report for July 13, 2015 is Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard's Django & Jimmie and it has scanned 74k to date.

Notables

Notables include news about the latest from A Thousand Horses, Blake Shelton (now at 400k scanned), Luke Bryan, Chris Stapleton, JB & the Moonshine Band, Billy Currington, Dierks Bentley, Old Dominion, and the latest figures from the most-recent albums from "Tomatoes" Reba, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood and more!

Top 5 Country Albums: July 13, 2015

  • Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest hundred albums sold.
  • Sales reflect the past 11 days as SoundScan moves from a Monday-Sunday tracking period to a Friday-Thursday sales period. This will actually now reflect a true weekly sales period for new releases unlike before where Tuesday release meant that Sunday-Monday weren't tracked in the first week of sales.
  • Sales reports will be reported on Monday instead of Wednesday.
CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 Kacey Musgraves Paegant Material 28,500 83,300
2 Easton Corbin About To Get Real 26,700 26,700
3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 23,900 633,000
4 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 20,500 435,900
5 Various Now Country 8 14,000 62,100

Read the entire Top 10 and Notable Albums list here

7 Comments

  • acapellaluv

    ***** FYI: Home Free's debut July 17th, on the Grand Ole Opry was awesome!! Standing ovation!! ******** ***** You Tube: Home Free Opry ....... AND click on: 'Home Free 1st opry experience' :)

    • acapellaluv

      P.S. Use headphones to hear the high/low notes AND Rob/Home Free loved Kacey's concert he saw last week!! :)

  • Livewire

    Hi Matt Really appreciate the sales and report. Sometimes you get to see the new releases by artists which did not make the Top 50 Country Chart. With this special transition week perhaps the Soundscan data you used is a day or so ahead of Billboard. I expect things will settle in with the new 7 day fixed period next week Friday-through-Thursday tracked data and (charts dated Aug. 1) For Easton Corbin Billboard say 25,000 copies in 11 Day period For Kacey Musgraves Billboard say 24,000 copies The top 5 Country Albums (based on sales) published by Billboard (chart date July 25, 2015) is as follows: TW LW 2WKS WKS 1 1 — 2 Easton Corbin About To Get Real 2 2 1 3 Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material Mercury

    • Matt Bjorke

      Yes, there were soundscan updates yesterday but it's too much to switch it all up a day later. So we'll simply fully update next week.

  • Kevin

    The Google doc posted still shows Easton at #1.

  • Livewire

    This is rather confusing. I think you are producing your own special 11 Day Chart? Read the entire Top 10 and Notable Albums list here = This link are all the sales figures for last week (Billboard chart date July 18, 2015) The top 5 published by Billboard (chart date July 25, 2015?) is as follows TW LW 2WKS WKS 1 1 — 2 Easton Corbin About To Get Real 2 2 1 3 Kacey Musgraves Pageant Material Mercury 3 3 2 37 Sam Hunt Montevallo MCA Nashville 4 4 3 11 Zac Brown Band Jekyll + Hyde 5 5 5 5 Various Artists Now That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8 Comparing your fugures from last week are you saying Kacey is top of your chart because she added more (+10,200) over 11 days 1 Kacey Musgraves Paegant Material 28,500 +10,200 2 Easton Corbin About To Get Real 26,700 +6,300 3 Sam Hunt Montevallo 23,900 633,000 +9,300 4 Zac Brown Band Jekyll+Hyde 20,500 +7,100 5 Various Now Country 8 14,000 +4,200

    • Matt Bjorke

      I'm not. It's the chart that SoundScan sent out yesterday for this week. All of our charts are based on SoundScan's data. If any adjustments are sent out, we'll adjust them. Otherwise, the first full week of chart news on the new Friday cycle, will NOT be known til next Monday.