Country Album Billboard Top 200 Chart News November 16th, 2011
Miranda Lambert stays at Number One on Billboard Country Chart
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| Miranda Lambert Album Art courtesy of Sony |
For the second week running Miranda Lambert’s Four The Record stays top of the Billoard Country Chart and stands at #11 overall on the Top 200. Yes releasing it on 1/11/11 seems like a clever ploy!
After the CMA Awards which acted as a reminder for viewers to pick up an album or download a single it was interesting to see just how much of a CMA bounce the artists got for appearing on the show.
After Scotty McCreery debutted with a 90 second version of “Walk In The Country” on the show, his country tally recieved a 4% sales bump.
Lady Antebellum’s Own The Night gained a 12% increase after their live band’s performance. They too were awarded a platinium certification for the album for shipments to retail of over 1,000,000 copies.
Jason Aldean whose album My Kinda Party gained Album of the Year has now sold over 2 million copies.
The Band Perry with three CMA awards saw their album haul rise with a 112% sales increase over the previous week.
Luke Bryan who performed Country Girl (Shake It For Me) from his Tailgates & Tanlines album got a 34% sales increase over the previous week whilst Eric Church and Chief jumped back into the Top 10 at #8 with a 67% sales increase.
CMA Presenter on the night Lauren Alaina and who will sing on the CMA Country Christmas program, remained in the Top 10 with her debut Wildflower now having sold 136,000 copies.
Brad Paisley too with This Is Country Music gained a 57% sales tally over the previous week to net a grand total of 535,000 albums sold so far.
Joe Nichols with his new album It’s All Good landed on the SoundScan chart at #70 this week with 7,000 fans taking it home.
Kenny Chesney’s Hemingway’s Whiskey scored a 54% sales increase over last week with the hit single “You And Tequila” performed with Grace Potter gaining Video of the Year.
Sara Evans who performed on CMA night scored a 52% sales increase for her 308,000 copies-sold Stronger album, it moved up 6 places to #30.
Thompson Square’s self-titled album gained a whooping 96% sales increase after their show performance of #1 hit “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” (the single is Platinum).
Rascal Flatts debuted at 32 with "The Best of Rascal Flatts Live."
CMA Vocal Duo once again Sugarland made big moves from 49 to 33 with "The Incredible Machine"
Josh Gracin debuted at 39 with "Redemption."
LW TW Artist Album
3 11 Miranda Lambert Four The Record -- #1 Billboard Country Album selling 53,146 copies
12 14 Scotty McCreery Clear As Day -- #2 Country Album selling 42K copies
14 17 Lady Antebellum Own The Night -- #3 Country Album selling 34K copies
26 20 Jason Aldean My Kinda Party -- #4 Country selling 27K copies (Total now 2-million+ )
13 24 Toby Keith Clancy's Tavern -- #5 Country selling 23K copies (124K to date)
29 25 Luke Bryan Tailgates & Tanlines -- #6 Country Album selling 22K copies
45 26 The Band Perry The Band Perry -- #7 Country Album selling 20K copies
49 35 Eric Church Chief -- #8 Country Album selling 14K copies
50 40 Blake Shelton Red River Blue -- #9 Country selling 13K copies (395K total)
35 45 Lauren Alaina Wildflower -- #10 Country Album selling 12K copies
55 47 Taylor
64 48 Brad Paisley This Is Country Music --#12 Country selling 11,666 copies(535K Total)
60 51 Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give -- #13 Country Album selling 11K copies
40 55 Brantley Gilbert Halfway to Heaven -- #14 Country Album selling 10K copies
41 61 Various Footloose Soundtrack - #15 Country, selling 9K copies (80K Total)
NEW ALBUM RELEASES due to drop
David Nail The Sound of a Million Dreams
COUNTRY SINGLES NEWS
The newly crowned CMA Entertainer of the Year Taylor Swift moves up 2 spots to Top the Billboard Country Songs chart with “Sparks Fly” after 19 weeks on the chart.
Blake Shelton’s “God Gave Me You” stays at #2
Brantley Gilberts “ Country Must Be Country Wide” moves up one place to take the #3 spot
After topping the chart last week the Eli Young’s Band drop down to the #4 place
Lady Antebellum who performed “We Owned The Night” at the CMA Awards moves up one to #5
CMA Album of the Year winner Jason Aldean with "Tattoos On This Town" moves up one to #6
Miranda Lambert's “Baggage Claim” falls down 2 places to land at #7
Zac Brown Band with “Keep Me In Mind” stays fixed to the #8 place
Thompson Square’s “I Got You” is a non mover at #9
Rascal Flatts “Easy” featuring Natasha Bedingfield holds its own at #10
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