Country Album Chart Report: May 23, 2016

With nearly 32k scanned, Keith Urban's Ripcord remains the #1 album but just barely as Jennifer Nettles' Playing With Fire sits at #2 with less than 1k between the two albums. Cole Swindell's You Should Be Here sits at #3 with sales now at nearly 89k after three weeks. Chris Stapleton's Traveller has scanned 1.3 million to date. Joey + Rory's Hymns is at #5 with 374k.

Top Ten Recap

Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide To Earth has scanned 88k to date and sits at #6 while Thomas Rhett's Tangled Up is at #7 with sales of 383k while Carrie Underwood's Storyteller has scanned nearly 560k to date and sits at #8. At #9 is Cyndi Lauper's Detours while at #10 is Sam Hunt's Montevallo.

Notables

Notables include Martina McBride's Restless, Zac Brown Band's Jekyll+Hyde and Cimorelli's Up At Night debuts as do new albums from Darrell Scott, Post Monroe, and Rob Baird debut with reports on other new and top stars.

Top 5 Country Albums: May 23, 2016

Note: The Top 5 Country Album Chart Numbers are rounded to nearest hundred albums sold.
CNTRY Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 Keith Urban Ripcord 31,700 124,500
2 Jennifer Nettles Playing With Fire 30,800 30,800
3 Cole Swindell You Should Be Here 23,100 88,600
4 Chris Stapleton Traveller 20,600 1,322,000
5 Joey+Rory Hymns 7,700 374,200

Read the entire Top 10 and Notable Albums list here

2 Comments

  • livewire

    Hi Matt Really appreciate your time and work with the Chart updates It's great to see the numbers and totals. I think Lonestar's new album probably only sold 600 copies with their #48 debut last week? Congrats to Chris Stapleton on his Billboard Award to complete a clean sweep of country awards. I see that the Americana Assoc are claiming him as one of their own and have him at No.1 on the new Billboard americana/Folk chart

  • livewire

    Hi Matt Really appreciate your time and work with the Chart updates It's great to see the numbers and totals. I think Lonestar's new album probably only sold 600 copies with their #48 debut last week? Congrats to Chris Stapleton on his Billboard Award to complete a clean sweep of country awards. I see that the Americana Assoc are claiming him as one of their own and have him at No.1 on the new Billboard americana/Folk chart