Top 10 Country Album Sales Chart: January 8, 2018

The pictured Shania Twain is one of the Top 5 best-sellers this week as her album jumped up the chart. 

It's the first week after the holidays and the sales this week prove this as most albums experienced a 50% or more drop. The lone major album to jump in sales this week is Shania Twain's Now. The icon's record has now scanned over 208,000 copies. Not bad for a comeback album without a real hit to let average fans know her album is there.  Chris Stapleton still has three albums in the Top 10, all 3 were among the best-selling albums of 2017 (a year in which not one country album scanned 1 million in pure sales), though according to Billboard actual album consumption (which includes streaming metrics not listed here) increased in 2017 vs. 2016.

Below is the actual chart for January 8, 2017.

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 2 12,300 243,400
2 ALAN JACKSON PRECIOUS MEMORIES COL (2CD) 10,400 167,400
3 LUKE BRYAN WHAT MAKES YOU COUNTRY 8,800 179,500
4 SHANIA TWAIN NOW 6,500 208,000
5 CHRIS STAPLETON FROM A ROOM: VOLUME 1 6,400 664,300
6 KENNY CHESNEY LIVE IN NO SHOES NATION 6,400 348,700
7 CHRIS STAPLETON TRAVELLER 5,300 2,185,900
8 GARTH BROOKS ANTHOLOGY PART 1:1ST 5 YRS 5,200 272,800
9 TIM MCGRAW/FAITH HILL THE REST OF OUR LIFE 4,300 170,900
10 KANE BROWN KANE BROWN 4,200 302,000
11 THOMAS RHETT LIFE CHANGES 4,000 218,200
12 BLAKE SHELTON TEXOMA SHORE 3,800 183,000
13 KID ROCK SWEET SOUTHERN SUGAR 2,900 101,700
14 DARIUS RUCKER WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME 2,600 77,700
15 LUKE COMBS THIS ONE'S FOR YOU 2,300 178,000
-- KELSEA BALLERINI UNAPOLOGETICALLY 2,200 79,600
-- JASON ISBELL/400 UNIT THE NASHVILLE SOUND 1,800 119,500
-- BRETT YOUNG BRETT YOUNG 1,700 177,500
-- VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW COUNTRY 10 1,500 149,600
-- KEITH URBAN RIPCORD 1,400 708,400
-- MIDLAND ON THE ROCKS 1,300 51,600
-- WALKER HAYES boom. 1,300 20,000
-- CHRIS YOUNG LOSING SLEEP 1,200 68,500
-- ERIC CHURCH MR. MISUNDERSTOOD 1,200 580,800
-- MIRANDA LAMBERT THE WEIGHT OF THESE WINGS 1,100 418,300
-- JON PARDI CALIFORNIA SUNRISE 1,100 211,200
-- OLD DOMINION HAPPY ENDINGS 1,000 68,200
-- ZAC BROWN BAND WELCOME HOME 900 292,600
-- BRETT ELDREDGE BRETT ELDREDGE 900 73,900
-- LITTLE BIG TOWN THE BREAKER 900 157,600
-- DUSTIN LYNCH CURRENT MOOD 900 64,600
-- BROTHERS OSBORNE PAWN SHOP 800 189,900
-- MARGO PRICE ALL-AMERICAN MADE 800 18,400
-- MAREN MORRIS HERO 700 271,100
-- LADY ANTEBELLUM HEART BREAK 700 149,900
-- DANIELLE BRADBERY I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE MET 700 17,600
-- CHRIS JANSON EVERYBODY 700 23,800
-- CHASE RICE LAMBS & LIONS 700 18,400
-- COLE SWINDELL YOU SHOULD BE HERE 700 309,100
-- LEE BRICE LEE BRICE 600 25,000
-- GARTH BROOKS GUNSLINGER 500 141,100
-- TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS LONG WAY FROM YOUR HEART 500 25,300
-- JAKE OWEN GREATEST HITS 500 6,100
-- CARLY PEARCE EVERY LITTLE THING 500 24,300
-- RAELYNN WILDHORSE 400 44,300
-- HOME FREE TIMELESS 400 32,700
-- GRANGER SMITH WHEN THE GOOD GUYS WIN 400 23,400
-- RUSSELL DICKERSON YOURS 400 13,400
-- LAUREN ALAINA ROAD LESS TRAVELED 400 34,500
-- NED LEDOUX SAGEBRUSH 400 7,500
-- WILLIE NELSON GOD'S PROBLEM CHILD 300 102,600
-- DOLLY PARTON I BELIEVE IN YOU 300 18,200

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