Once again Taylor Swift dominates the country album tally on this week’s Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 Albums chart with Fearless.  Barring an unexpected collapse of the Lady Antebellum Need You Now album, next week all that will change as all signs point to the Capitol Nashville trio scoring the Top spot on the entire chart with sales nearing 400,000 copies.  As for the rest of this week’s country albums, the trio follows “Tay Tay” with their ever so popular two-year-old self-titled debut.  That record has now moved over 1.4 million copies.  Carrie Underwood is next with her third LP Play On continuing to find audiences.  It has now sold nearly 1.3 million copies.  The Zac Brown Band’s Foundation is still looking pretty secure as the group moves closer to being in the home of “Chicken Fried” and “Toes” fan’s homes. Rounding out this week’s Top 5 country albums on the Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 Albums chart is Jason Aldean’s Wide Open.  The album now has had three consecutive #1 hits as “The Truth” takes over the #1 spot on this week’s chart.  The album has now officially found a home in over one million homes as it has now scanned that many copies at retail.

The soundtrack to the film Crazy Heart debuts as this week’s sixth best country album with over 11,000 copies sold.  The album features Golden Globe winner Jeff Bridges singing a plethora of tunes intermixed with classic Buck Owens, Waylon and Louvin Brothers tunes.  The Golden Globe winning original “The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)” by Ryan Bingham is also found on the soundtrack.  Miranda Lambert’s Revolution has a #1 hit on the Country Aircheck/Mediabase/USA Today charts this week with “White Liar,” so congrats to her for that achievement (hopefully it follows Aldean to top Billboard’s chart next week).  Miranda sits in the seventh spot this week on the Hot Country Albums chart and has now sold nearly 400,000 copies of Revolution. Following-up Miranda is the 1.2 million-selling Learn To Live from Darius Rucker.  The album, with 3 #1 hits and a 4th one that may follow-suit has been a steady seller since the summer of 2008.  Tim McGraw’s Southern Voice, which had last week’s chart topping single of the same name, is now nearing the 600,000 copies-sold mark as Tim prepares to release “Still” to radio.  Keith Urban’s Defying Gravity continues its rebound on the charts this week as the hit single “'Til Summer Comes Around” and sales at places like Best Buy continue to help the artist march towards another Platinum album.

With “Rain Is A Good Thing” now on the radio, the charming Luke Bryan continues to experience strong sales increases for his sophomore album Doin’ My Thing. The album has now moved nearly 225,000 copies and if it continues to churn out char-topping hits like “Do I,” there’s no doubting that the album will make its way to Gold sometime in 2010.  Chris Young, too, is working his sophomore record and while he has one of 2009’s most memorable singles in “Getting You Home (The Black Dress Song)” on The Man I Want To Be it is the title track that is helping keep the album inside the hot 100 half of the Billboard Hot 200 Albums chart.  It’s nearing the 200,000 copies sold mark and like Bryan’s record, The Man I Want To Be  will continue to march to Gold status with continued radio and video single successes.   Jamey Johnson may be working on new music but that hasn’t stopped folks from getting his remarkable  That Lonesome Song up towards the Platinum mark.  The record has now moved nearly ¾ of a million albums.  Bluegrass artist Sarah Jarosz had an $2.99 Amazon Daily Deal last week for Song Up In Her Head and it was enough to move her album inside the Hot 200 Albums chart for the first time in her career.  The Sugar Hill Records album went from 230 albums sold last week to 3,509 this week.  Her total is now 15,780 albums sold.  Rounding out this week’s chart rundown is Gretchen Wilson’s first Greatest Hits album.  The final release of her career with Sony Music Nashville, the set moved 3,300 copies last week.