For this special report, we thought y'all might like to see a rundown of some of the top-selling catalog country albums (a Top 20 and then a few more notables). Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits is actually the 65th best-selling album in the USA this week on the Billboard 200 chart and it leads here with 7,600 sold for totals over 2.5 million. The album is also now available for streaming on Amazon's new streaming service and Prime Streaming alike. These catalog charts also have some interesting classic stars like Shania Twain, Dwight Yoakam, Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard, Hank Jr, and Waylon Jennings along with Johnny Cash. More current stars like Luke Bryan, Zac Brown Band, Eric Church, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Miranda Lambert, Sam Hunt and Cole Swindell have albums on this list while there are a plethora of country christmas albums lead by Joey+Rory's A Farmhouse Christmas.
Catalog Top 20 Sellers For The Week Of October 31, 2016
CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
1 | Garth Brooks | Ultimate Hits | 7,600 | 2,527,400 |
2 | Johnny Cash | Legend Of Johnny Cash | 2,700 | 3,526,800 |
3 | Joey+Rory | A Farm House Christmas | 2,400 | 27,700 |
4 | Sam Hunt | Montevallo | 2,100 | 1,228,100 |
5 | Various Artists | Roots of Country Music | 1,700 | 226,700 |
6 | Willie Nelson | Super Hits | 1,700 | 2,880,700 |
7 | Dwight Yoakam | Very Best of Dwight Yoakam | 1,600 | 1,009,500 |
8 | Elvis Presley | It's Christmas | 1,600 | 1,753,500 |
9 | Taylor Swift | Fearless | 1,600 | 7,069,000 |
10 | Elvis Presley | Merry Christmas Love Elvis | 1,500 | 148,200 |
11 | Taylor Swift | Taylor Swift | 1,300 | 5,628,300 |
12 | Taylor Swift | Red | 1,300 | 4,333,100 |
13 | Merle Haggard | 20 Greatest Hits | 1,200 | 170,000 |
14 | George Strait | Best Of/20th Century Masters | 1,200 | 1,727,200 |
15 | Hank Williams, Jr | Vol 1. Greatest Hits | 1,200 | 3,383,800 |
17 | Luke Bryan | Crash My Party | 1,200 | 2,616,600 |
18 | John Denver | Best of John Denver...Live | 1,100 | 902,400 |
19 | Carrie Underwood | Greatest Hits Decade #1 | 1,100 | 532,700 |
20 | Burl Ives | Rudolph The Red-Nosed Rein... | 1,100 | 1,368,500 |
-- | Elvis Presley | Heart & Soul | 1,100 | 985,500 |
-- | Taylor Swift | Speak Now | 1,000 | 4,601,000 |
-- | Miranda Lambert | Crazy Ex-Girlfriend | 1,000 | 1,545,600 |
-- | Martina McBride | White Christmas | 1,000 | 1,789,700 |
-- | Waylon Jennings | Ultimate Waylon Jennings | 1,000 | 600,900 |
-- | Johnny Cash | Essential Johnny Cash | 1,000 | 1,695,500 |
-- | Oak Ridge Boys | Best Of/20th Century Masters | 1,000 | 523,500 |
-- | Alan Jackson | Honky Tonk Christmas | 1,000 | 1,294,500 |
-- | Cole Swindell | Cole Swindell | 900 | 510,400 |
-- | David Allen Coe | Greatest Hits | 900 | 1,107,400 |
-- | Jason Aldean | Old Boots, New Dirt | 900 | 1,150,200 |
-- | K.Rogers/D.Parton | Once Upon A Christmas | 900 | 950,100 |
-- | Eric Church | The Outsiders | 900 | 1,210,000 |
-- | Zac Brown Band | Greatest Hits So Far | 900 | 316,600 |
-- | Florida Georgia Line | Heres To The Good Times | 900 | 2,343,400 |
-- | Luke Bryan | Tailgates & Tanlines | 800 | 2,548,800 |
-- | Shania Twain | Greatest Hits | 800 | 4,390,400 |
-- | Tracy Lawrence | Very Best of Tracy Lawrence | 800 | 328,400 |
Courtney
yeah there's a percentage of that sitting in stores as there is of every album certified at any level as certs are based on shipments to retailers not what the album actually sells plus it's more confusing now since streaming is taken into account for album certifications where applicable for example Carrie Underwood's debut album Some Hearts was certified 8 x platinum a couple of weeks ago and has only sold 7.6 million albums so 400,000 are sitting on shelves or another example is when Faith Hill's 1999 album Breathe was certified 8 x platinum in April of 2003 it had sold 6.1 million copies so 1.9 million sat on shelves or when Mariah Carey's Self Titled 1990 debut album was certified 9 x platinum on 12/15/1999 it had sold 4,000,000 prior to Sound_scan being rolled out and 4.500.000 after it was used for calculating the Billboard 200 chart on the chart dated May 25th 1991
Jon
I guess I don't understand the sales numbers behind Garth Brooks The Ultimate Hits. The RIAA just certified it Diamond which means 5,000,000 copies have been shipped since it is a double disc. I know that is shipments vs actual sales, but are there really 2,500,000 copies sitting in stores?
Alex B
Very nice, more please!
Anthony
Please do the weekly album sales report again, I see you dont do it anymore
Patrick
I agree, the weekly sales report (album and singles) are cool to check out each week. This new catalog album sales chart is pretty cool too. Please keep it up!