The Top 10 Country Albums Chart: October 15, 2018

The Chief debuts in the top spot with his latest album "Desperate Man" see where other newcomers (like Aaron Watson and Will Hoge) placed this week and more!

With 103,000 in pure album sales and 116,000 in total consumption (0ver 14,000 of those were vinyl editions) for one of the best openings of his career, Eric Church lands at #1. The album Desperate Man is off to a nice, strong start for the Chief and his new UMG Nashville label mate Carrie Underwood's reign at #1 for 3 weeks is over (for now). Cry Pretty has now sold over 306,000 pure album sales while Luke Combs sits at 339,500 for This One's For You (Too). Look for him to have a big night during the CMA Awards (where he may steal Male Vocalist of the Year from Chris Stapleton). At #4 is icon Loretta Lynn's two week old album Wouldn't It Be Great. the record has sold nearly 12,000 copies so far. Stapleton rounds out the Top 5 and all three of his albums are in the Top 10.

Also inside the Top 10 this week are Kane Brown, Jason Aldean and Kenny Chesney with their latest album releases (though Brown is set to release his sophomore album soon). Notable debuts include Moonshine Bandits at #11, and the latest releases from Will Hoge and Aaron Watson (a holiday album featuring his family) and the debut Borrowed Heart from singer/songwriter Heather Morgan. Also making a debut on our rundowns is the best of collection from Joey+Rory, Brian Grilli's Deep South Symphony, Frank Foster's 'Til I'm Gone and Amy Helm's This Too Shall Light. See below to see where your favorite albums are at -- in pure album sales -- this week.

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 Eric Church Desperate Man 103,000 103,000
2 Carrie Underwood Cry Pretty 11,300 306,100
3 Luke Combs This One's For You (Too) 3,800 339,500
4 Loretta Lynn Wouldn't It Be Great 3,200 11,900
5 Chris Stapleton Traveller 3,200 2,364,700
6 Kane Brown Kane Brown 2,400 464,400
7 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Vol 1. 2,100 846,600
8 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Vol 2. 2,000 443,300
9 Jason Aldean Rearview Town 2,000 420,100
10 Kenny Chesney Songs For The Saints 1,700 116,600
11 Moonshine Bandits Gold Rush 1,700 1,700
12 Cole Swindell All Of It 1,600 68,300
13 Various Artists Now Countryt 11 1,600 72,000
14 Dan + Shay Dan + Shay 1,500 58,600
15 Keith Urban Graffiti U 1,400 253,000
-- Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour 1,200 105,000
-- Luke Bryan What Makes You Country 1,200 332,600
-- Dierks Bentley The Mountain 1,200 164,800
-- Brett Young Brett Young 1,000 237,500
-- Caroline Jones Bare Feet 1,000 31,000
-- Joey+Rory The Singer And The Song: Best 900 4,500
-- Brothers Osborne Port Saint Joe 900 62,400
-- Thomas Rhett Life Changes 900 297,800
-- Cody Jinks Lifers 800 34,000
-- Chris Young Losing Sleep 800 107,100
-- Brian Grilli Deep South Symphony 800 2,600
-- John Prine Tree Of Forgiveness 800 105,900
-- Blake Shelton Texoma Shore 700 248,000
-- Will Hoge My American Dream 700 700
-- Tyler Childers Purgatory 700 44,500
-- Aaron Watson Family Christmas 700 700
-- Heather Morgan Borrowed Heart 600 600
-- Midland On The Rocks 600 95,000
-- Old Dominion Happy Endings 600 98,400
-- Scotty McCreery Seasons Change 500 83,700
Kid Rock Sweet Southern Sugar 500 178,900
-- Kelsea Ballerini Unapologetically 500 115,100
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 500 254,000
-- Sugarland Bigger 500 54,600
-- Maren Morris Hero 500 299,400
-- Darius Rucker When Was The Last Time 400 117,500
-- Lee Brice Lee Brice 400 39,000
-- T.McGraw/F.Hill The Rest Of Our Life 400 231,300
-- Jason Isbell/400 Unit The Nashville Sound 300 150,100
-- Various Artists Restoration: Songs Of Elton John 300 30,900
-- Tracy Lawrence Good Ole Days 300 18,200
-- Chris Janson Everybody 300 43,200
-- Kip Moore Slowheart 300 52,600
-- Carly Pearce Every Little Thing 300 38,100
-- Frank Foster Til I'm Gone 300 6,300
-- Ashley McBryde Girl Going Nowhere 200 26,400
-- Granger Smith When The Good Guys Win 200 40,300
-- Dustin Lynch Current Mood 200 79,800
-- Amy Helm This Too Shall Light 200 1,600

2 Comments

  • Patrick

    Why not add total consumption (stream equivalent album sales from all distributors) for a more accurate sales week? Eric Church's album sold a total ~144,000 albums (hitsdailydouble.com). We are missing out on a big chunk of the actual total album sales. I saw you do an article of total consumption a little ways back, what happened to that type of sales posting?

  • Courtney Puzzo

    Carrie's album is doing decently well for this climate without a huge hit single sales naturally decrease as your career goes on it might take a while for Cry Pretty to reach Gold though by RIAA rules in most cases an album is eligible for certification a month after release if it's shipped/sold enough copies some albums are slower sellers for example it took Mariah Carey's 1993 album Music Box 2 1/2 years to ship/sell 9,000,000 copies and 21 more months to reach diamond 10 million copies granted record sales hit their peak in 2000 where it took Nsync's No Strings Attached 8 1/2 months to go diamond selling 2.42 million copies it's first week and 9.94 million by the end of the calendar year the highest calendar year sales for a single album in US history the first week record stood until November 2015 when Adele's 25 obliterated it selling 3.377.885 physical/digital copies and 104,115 from streaming as only it's lead single Hello was available so in total it sold 980,000 copies more than NSA did nearly 16 years earlier though it sold less by the end of the calendar year by 1.932.000 though selling 8 million albums in a time where many fail to reach platinum is a bigger achievement than shipping 10 million when multi platinum was a lot more common