It took an extra week but Alan Jackson does get his time at #1 on the Top 1o Country Album chart report this week. The report for August 4, 2015 features Alan Jackson's latest album, Angels and Alcohol at #1 with Ashley Monroe's The Blade hitting #2. The third best-selling this week is Sam Hunt's Montevallo, followed by Jason Isbell's Something More Than Free album, the album which squeaked by Alan Jackson last week to hold down #1. Rounding out the Top 5 is Zack Brown Band's nearly-Gold Jekyll+Hyde album.
Top Ten Recap
Sitting at #6 this week is Eric Church's Platinum-certified stunner, The Outsiders, an album followed by Little Big Town's Pain Killer and Jason Aldean's Old Boots, New Dirt at #7 and #8, respectively. Sitting at #9 is Just As I Am, the latest collection of songs from Brantley Gilbert, and rounding out the Top 10 is Florida Georgia Line's Anything Goes album.
Notables
Notables include news about the latest from Easton Corbin, Luke Bryan, Chase Rice, the Now That's What I Call Country #8 series, Cole Swindell (who has scanned 400k copies of his self-titled album), Canaan Smith, Chris Stapleton, Old Dominion, Sturgill Simposn and "Tomatoes" Cam, Reba, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood and more!
Top 5 Country Albums: August 4, 2015
- Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers rounded to nearest hundred albums sold.
CNTRY | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
1 | Alan Jackson | Angels & Alcohol | 18,500 | 64,000 |
2 | Ashley Monroe | The Blade | 12,400 | 12,500 |
3 | Sam Hunt | Montevallo | 11,500 | 667,100 |
4 | Jason Isbell | Something More Than... | 10,000 | 55,900 |
5 | Zac Brown Band | Jekyll+Hyde | 8,600 | 462,800 |
Cal
On your chart, Kacey Musgraves' album is listed as having sold 720,200, but last week it was only up to 96,000? An error?
Matt Bjorke
That was fixed. Thanks for reading every week.