It's been a while since we've ran one of these charts for y'all and so with that in mind, we've cobbled up a post-Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns version for you. As you can see from below, Kacey Musgraves debuts on this chart with her Grammy-winning Golden Hour album. But after her, it's a long line to UMG Nashville label mate Chris Stapleton and rising star Tyler Childers before we find "current" artists on this chart. Otherwise, it's classic artists with a bevy of greatest hits, best of's, essentials, and Icon series releases, the kinds of catalog-milking releases that dominate the small (and getting smaller) shelf space at big box stores. These releases in CD form are often $7.50 or less (most often $5) and thus make for a quick impulse buy. That being said, the TV series did help individual albums this week like Stardust, Will The Circle Be Unbroken and Red Headed Stranger. Below you'll find weekly totals and also the total album scans to date (most since 1991's introduction of SoundScan).
Top Catalog Country Albums Chart: October 9, 2019
CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
1 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | 1,700 | 263,400 |
2 | Willie Nelson | Super Hits | 1,500 | 2,736,500 |
3 | Johnny Cash | Essential Johnny Cash | 1,500 | 1,845,400 |
4 | Waylon Jennings | Ultimate Waylon Jennings | 1,400 | 754,000 |
5 | Merle Haggard | 20 Greatest Hits | 1,400 | 332,300 |
6 | Johnny Cash | Legend Of Johnny Cash | 1,300 | 3,866,300 |
7 | Patsy Cline | Icon | 1,300 | 427,900 |
8 | ALABAMA | Amercian Farewell Tour | 1,200 | 650,800 |
9 | O Brother Where ARt Thou | Soundtrack | 1,200 | 8,175,800 |
10 | Conway Twitty | Icon | 1,200 | 285,100 |
11 | Willie Nelson | Stardust | 1,200 | 478,000 |
12 | Toby Keith | Vol 2: Greatest Hits | 1,100 | 4,067,900 |
13 | Willie Nelson | Red Headed Stranger | 1,100 | 336,900 |
14 | George Strait | Best Of/20th Century Masters | 1,100 | 1,836,000 |
15 | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Will The Circle Be Unbroken | 1,100 | 301,600 |
16 | Loretta Lynn | Icon | 1,100 | 180,200 |
17 | Keith Whitley | Greatest Hits | 1,100 | 991,900 |
18 | George Strait | Strait Out of the Box | 1,000 | 1,525,100 |
19 | Dolly Parton | Playlist: Very Best Of... | 1,000 | 210,400 |
20 | The Eagles | Hotel California | 1,000 | 2,402,200 |
-- | Linda Ronstadt | Greatest Hits | 900 | 808,100 |
-- | Johnny Cash | Greatest: The Number Ones | 900 | 1,538,000 |
-- | Shania Twain | Greatest Hits | 900 | 318,700 |
-- | Brooks & Dunn | Playlist: Very Best Of... | 900 | 4,528,400 |
-- | Willie Nelson | Playlist: Very Best Of... | 900 | 125,900 |
-- | Jimmy Buffett | Songs You Know By heart | 900 | 5,646,300 |
-- | Dwight Yoakam | The Very Best of... | 900 | 1,124,300 |
-- | Tyler Childers | Purgatory | 900 | 82,900 |
-- | Alan Jackson | Playlist: Very Best Of... | 900 | 266,100 |
-- | Roy Orbison | Super Hits | 900 | 1,429,900 |
-- | Alan Jackson | Precious Memories II | 800 | 453,200 |
-- | Chris Stapleton | From A Room: Vol 2. | 800 | 541,200 |
-- | Alan Jackson | Precious Memories Collection | 800 | 390,000 |
-- | The Highwaymen | Playlist: Very Best Of... | 800 | 48,900 |
-- | Chris Stapleton | From A Room: Vol 1. | 800 | 942,000 |
-- | Willie Nelson | Essential Willie Nelson | 700 | 944,700 |
-- | Josh Turner | Icon | 700 | 506,100 |
-- | Carrie Underwood | Blown Away | 700 | 1,853,200 |
-- | Patsy Cline | The Definitive Collection | 700 | 180,300 |
-- | Nelson/Jennings/Colter/G... | Wanted! The Outlaws | 700 | 343,600 |
-- | George Jones | 16 Biggest Hits | 600 | 1,430,300 |
-- | Patsy Cline | Greatest Hits | 600 | 3,140,600 |
-- | Garth Brooks | Ultimate Hits | 600 | 2,884,600 |
Chris Bigham
This is great! Thanks. I think you have Shania Twain and Brooks & Dunn switched.
Courtney
some of those are in need of updated RIAA certifications such as Willie Nelson Super Hits should be 2 x platinum Legend Of Johnny Cash should be 4 x platinum etc most of the other albums are accurately certified Carrie Underwood's Blown Away for example is 2 x platinum also the Holiday charts should comeback in the next few weeks
Alex
I love it when you give the update on catalog album, thank you.