Top 10 Country Albums: Pure Sales Chart for October 7, 2019

Whiskey Myers debuts at #1 for the first time. See where Jon Pardi, Sturgill Simpson and others debuted this week!

For the first time in their career, Whiskey Myers have a #1 country album. The Texas-based country/rock band also has a Top 10 debut on the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart, also a first. They out-paced both Sturgill Simpson and Jon Pardi this week to score the top slot with an impressive 39,000 copies sold of their self-titled, Thirty Tigers-distributed album. Simpson debuted at #2 with sales of 26K in pure album sales while Pardi sits at #3 with his third album Heartache Medication finding 23,000 fans willing to actually own it (and not just stream or "add" it to their download libraries via streaming services). Last week's #1, Zac Brown Band's critically-savaged The OWL sits at #4 with two week pure sales numbers of 105k-plus, showcasing an artist who definitely has a fanbase willing to go where they go, even in this new world of streaming. Finally, the first of two Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns soundtracks appear on this chart's Top 10, both rouding out the Top 5 and Top 10, respectively. One is a massive multi-disc/track compilation and the other is a more digestible two disc-affair.

Sitting at #6 is former #1 album The Highwomen from The Highwomen supergroup. It has now sold over 46,100 copies while Billy Strings debuts at #7 with Home.  Indie country/rap darling Upchurch sits at #8 with his two week old Parachute. The dude has once-again managed to hit these charts with his grassroots fans picking up what he's putting down. Sheryl Crow has said Threads is her last full length album (She'll instead release periodic singles and EPs to keep music "fresh") and it has done well for the veteran multi-genre star with 31,600 fans owning a copy of the record so far (to say nothing of fans who stream it).

Further down the chart with notables are looks at new releases from artists like Tanya Tucker, Trisha Yearwood, Tyler Childers, Riley Green, Morgan Wallen, Michaela Anne, Colt Ford, Vince Gill, Runaway June, Home Free, Paul Cauthen, Charlie Parr, Hardy, Leroy Gibbons, Kalie Shorr, The Bros. Landreth and more!

Top 10 country albums sales chart: October 7, 2019:

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 Whiskey Myers Whiskey Myers 39,000 39,000
2 Sturgill Simpson SOUND & FURY 26,300 26,300
3 Jon Pardi Heartache Medication 23,200 23,200
4 Zac Brown Band The Owl 5,700 105,100
5 Various Artists Country Music: Film by Ken Burns 4,400 12,900
6 The Highwomen The Highwomen 3,600 46,100
7 Billy Strings Home 3,600 3,600
8 Upchurch Parachute 2,400 12,400
9 Sheryl Crow Threads 2,300 31,600
10 Various Artists Country Music: Film by Ken Burns 2,300 5,800
11 Chris Stapleton Traveller 2,100 2,541,300
12 Luke Combs This One's For You (Too) 1,900 529,100
13 Vince Gill Okie 1,800 20,100
14 Tanya Tucker While I'm Livin' 1,500 21,100
15 Trisha Yearwood Every Girl 1,500 19,300
-- Tyler Childers Country Squire 1,400 39,400
-- Colt Ford We The People, Vol. 1. 1,300 4,500
-- Midland Let It Roll 1,300 27,100
-- Jimmy Fortune God & Country 1,300 7,400
-- Carrie Underwood Cry Pretty 1,200 507,900
-- Riley Green Different 'Round Here 1,100 3,300
-- Thomas Rhett Center Point Road 900 83,600
-- Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home 900 46,500
Justin Moore Late Nights And Longnecks 800 28,400
-- Kane Brown Kane Brown 800 546,400
-- George Strait Honky Tonk Time Machine 700 130,700
-- Florida Georgia Line Can't Say I Ain't Country 700 96,800
-- Morgan Wallen IF I Know Me 700 36,000
-- Josh Turner I Serve A Savior 700 129,700
-- Dan + Shay Dan + Shay 600 159,700
-- Jason Aldean Rearview town 600 500,700
-- Kane Brown Experiment 600 227,000
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 600 277,200
-- Michaela Anne Desert Dove 600 600
-- Eric Church Desperate Man 500 232,500
-- Maren Morris Girl 500 72,800
-- Home Free Dive Bar Saints 500 14,400
-- Runaway June Blue Roses 400 7,300
-- Rodney Crowell TEXAS 400 5,800
-- Lukas Nelson/POTR Turn Off The News... 400 16,400
-- Paul Cauthen Room 41 300 3,000
-- Cody Johnson Ain't Nothin' To It 300 55,100
-- Reba McEntire Stronger Than The Truth 300 51,300
-- Charlie Parr Charlie PArr 300 300
-- Brett Young Ticket To L.A. 300 54,100
-- Hardy Hixtape, Vol. 1 300 2,000
-- Charley Crockett The Valley 200 1,000
-- Leroy Gibbons Leroy Gibbons 200 200
-- Kalie Shorr Kalie Shorr 200 200
-- Brothers Osborne Port Saint Joe 200 90,600
-- The Bros. Landreth 87 200 200
-- Aaron Lewis The State I'm In 200 37,600
-- Pistol Annies Interstate Gospel 200 77,400

1 Comments

  • Courtney

    damn some of those sales numbers are bad Cry Pretty being barely over gold 13 months after release is one such example her debut Some Hearts was 5 x platinum around the same point in it's release certified as such on January 5th 2007 though sales have gone down significantly since then even in some cases for big event albums Taylor Swift's current album lover is one such example it's sold around 1.2 million copies since release in late August around what reputation sold in it's first week in November 2017 and should be 4 x plat now equal to Chris Stapleton's Traveller which turns 5 years old in May 2020 several albums have big anniversaries over the next few years The Beatles Let It Be turns 50 in May 2020 Mariah Carey's Self Titled Debut album turns 30 in June 2020 Selena's Dreaming Of You turns 25 In July 2020 Gloria Estefan's Into The Light turns 30 in January 2021 etc