After a few weeks out of the top, Chris Stapleton returns to his familiar spot at #1 with Traveller. The album has now scanned over 1.431 million albums! Blake Shelton's If I'm Honest is sitting at #2 with sales of nearly 283k to date while the 9th edition of the Now That's What I Call Country Music! series sits at #3 with sales now at 37k to date. Sitting at #4 is Deirks Bentley's Black. The album has scanned 137k to date. Rounding out our Top 5 rundown is Keith Urban's Ripcord. The album has scanned nearly 200k to date.
Top Ten Recap
Jon Pardi's former #1 album slides to #6 in its second week in our rundown here with sales now at nearly 31k. Joey + Rory's final album, Hymns sits at #7 with sales of 414k to date. The album WILL be a Gold-certified project and that will be the first one of their career. It could very well be the best-selling Christian/Gospel album of 2016 too. Cole Swindell's You Should Be Here is next with sales of 138k to date. At #9 is Thomas Rhett's Tangled Up and Maren Morris' major label debut Hero sits at #10.
Notables
We have new notables from Kelsea Ballerini, Old Dominion, Eric Church, Tim McGraw, Chris Young, Granger Smith, Sturgill Simpson, Dan+Shay, Randy Houser, Martina McBride, Randy Travis, LOCASH and more!
Top 5 Country Albums: June 14, 2016
Note: The Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers are rounded to nearest hundred albums sold.
CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
1 | Chris Stapleton | Traveller | 15,300 | 1,431,500 |
2 | Blake Shelton | If I'm Honest | 14,000 | 282,700 |
3 | Various Artists | Now Country 9 | 8,900 | 37,200 |
4 | Dierks Bentley | Black | 7,600 | 136,900 |
5 | Keith Urban | Ripcord | 7,300 | 197,200 |
Read the entire Top 10 and Notable Albums list here: http://roughstock.com/news/2016/07/40551-country-albums-chart-report-july-6-2016
Chris Bigham
The link is not there for the full report, Matt.