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 |
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