The post-Christmas sale rise is nearly over, settling the charts on a more ‘normal’ feel. Florida Georgia Line returns to #1 with “Cruise.”

With “Cruise” cemented as perhaps the biggest surprise of 2012, the song was the only country single to sell over 100,000 copies this week after six singles surpassed the mark last week (“Cruise” and Taylor Swift’s #2 “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” sold over 200k). The third place single this week is The Band Perry’s latest Gold-selling single “Better Dig Two.” All signs point to this future #1 Airplay single achieving a Platinum or better sales mark for the family band. Hunter Hayes’ “Wanted” is now nearly at 2.3 milllion sold, a number that suggests that the song (now a Pop/AC crossover chart hit) could surpass Triple Platinum at some point. Gary Allan’s Gold-selling “Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)” is also a likely future #1 Airplay hit (It’s also Gary’s first Gold-selling single since 2007’s “Watching Airplanes.”

Carrie Underwood’s “Blown Away” Remains Top 10 Single.

Last week it sold over 136,000 copies and this week slides down to 59,000 sold but this is still enough for the #6 selling song of the week. Jason Aldean’s “The Only Way I Know” is 109,000 downloads away from hitting Gold while Little Big Town’s “Tornado” and Hunter Hayes’ “Somebody’s Heartbreak” (the #8 & #9 songs of the week) are right behind him on the chart and their paths to Gold. Little Big Town’s not so far away from a Double Platinum award for “Pontoon”, this week’s #10 song, making the quartet the only Country act this week with two songs in the Top 10.

Lee Brice’s “I Drive Your Truck” is the Riser of the Week.

Randy Houser’s Top 5 hit “How Country Feels,” a song with an outside shot at #1 in the next week or two (right around when his album of the same name is released by Stoney Creek Records), is nearly Gold and just outside the Top 10 this week while Kacey Musgraves’ debut single continues to run up the charts and is at #12. Lee Brice has two singles in the Top 20 including Platinum “Hard To Love” (his third platinum hit after “Love Like Crazy” and “A Woman Like You”) and rising hit, this week’s Riser of the week and the only ‘new’ song inside the Top 30 this week, “I Drive Your Truck.” The single has now sold 122,000 downloads and with all the buzz and acclaim it is getting, it isn’t likely to kill his winning Gold/Platinum certification (or Airplay #1 hit) streak. Jason Aldean’s “Take A Little Ride” has surpassed the Platinum certification mark whilst “Springsteen” from Eric Church has landed Double Platinum status this week. 

Songs falling out of the Top 30 This Week:

• Dustin Lynch - “Cowboys & Angels”

New singles likely to debut next week:

• Blake Shelton - “Sure Be Cool If You Did”

Top 30 Digital Singles In Country Music (12/12/12)*

*Numbers are rounded to nearest thousandth.

LW TW Artist Track TW LW Total

2 1 Florida Georgia Line Cruise 103,000 211,000 1,739,000

1 2 Taylor Swift We Are Never Ever Getting... 96,000 236,000 3,150,000

5 3 The Band Perry Better Dig Two 78,000 123,000 657,000

3 4 Hunter Hayes Wanted 78,000 159,000 2,277,000

6 5 Gary Allan Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain) 65,000 112,000 628,000

4 6 Carrie Underwood Blown Away 59,000 136,000 1,695,000

8 7 Jason Aldean The Only Way I Know 48,000 83,000 391,000

12 8 Little Big Town Tornado 47,000 69,000 378,000

7 9 Hunter Hayes Somebody's Heartbreak 44,000 84,000 351,000

10 10 Little Big Town Pontoon 40,000 75,000 1,826,000

14 11 Randy Houser How Country Feels 36,000 61,000 427,000

19 12 Kacey Musgraves Merry Go 'Round 35,000 53,000 264,000

21 13 Zac Brown Band Goodbye In Her Eyes 33,000 47,000 349,000

13 14 Lee Brice Hard To Love 32,000 63,000 1,165,000

22 15 Carrie Underwood Two Black Cadillacs 32,000 46,000 178,000

27 16 Tim McGraw One Of Those Nights 32,000 38,000 204,000

11 17 Taylor Swift Begin Again 31,000 71,000 706,000

35 18 Lee Brice I Drive Your Truck 28,000 31,000 122,000

9 19 Taylor Swift Red 26,000 80,000 730,000

29 20 Brad Paisley Southern Comfort Zone 26,000 36,000 294,000

15 21 Carrie Underwood Good Girl 25,000 59,000 1,552,000

16 22 Luke Bryan Drunk On You 25,000 56,000 2,225,000

17 23 Eric Church Creepin' 25,000 56,000 547,000

23 24 Kip Moore Beer Money 24,000 45,000 373,000

18 25 Luke Bryan Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye 24,000 56,000 695,000

28 26 Jason Aldean Dirt Road Anthem 22,000 37,000 3,486,000

26 27 Justin Moore Til My Last Day 22,000 42,000 392,000

20 28 Jason Aldean Take A Little Ride 21,000 51,000 1,013,000

25 29 Eric Church Springsteen 21,000 53,000 2,009,000

24 30 Luke Bryan Country Girl (Shake It For Me) 19,000 43,000 2,359,000