The Top 10 Country Albums: September 4, 2018

After a few weeks away, the chart returns with an update on who has sold the best physical/digital albums this week!

This Week's rundown showcases a slow release week with nothing really moving inside or outside of the Top 10. Last week's #1 debut, Cole Swindell's All Of It sits at #2 this week (barely) behind multi-week #1 Rearview Town from Jason Aldean. Kenny Chesney's Songs For The Saints, also a recent #1, sits at #3 with sales now over 101,000 copies to date. Luke Combs This One's For You has announced the arrival of a superstar amongst the country format and he remains country music's most-streamed artist of 2018 thanks to a string of hits which includes current Top hit "She Got The Best Of Me." He's rode that wave to a pair of CMA nominations including the toughest category in all of the genre, Best Male Vocalist. Sitting at #5 and with all three of his albums in the Top 10, Chris Stapleton's Traveller. The album has sold nearly 2.4 million albums since coming out four short years ago.

Country fans still buy CDs (I do, too) so there's a market for the Now That's Country Music series and now, on it's 11th edition, sits at #6 this week with 61,000 fans buying the mixtape. Kane Brown may be preparing his sophomore album launch but he's still scoring with audiences who continue to discover his debut. He's sold 446,000 actual copies of the album and, like Luke Combs, he's one of country's most-streamed artists. Alan Jackson's dual disc collection of Precious Memories has proven to be a popular release with close to 292,000 fans owning that specific collection in addition to the single disc versions of them.

Notables include Caroline Jones with her album Bare Feet. The indie country sensation has sold nearly 24,000 copies of a record without any real radio support, quite a remarkable achievement. Aaron Watson's Live At The World's Biggest Rodeo showcases what to expect from his live shows while Dan+Shay, a markedly different artist, continues their climb with their self-titled album (an album which is amongst the most-streamed country albums of 2018). The duo's third LP has sold just under 50,000 actual copies since their June release. CMA nominated album Graffiti U from Keith Urban has scanned nearly 240,000 copies since release while Kid Rock sits at over 170,000 for his 2017 release Sweet Southern Sugar. Other Notables include the new 4 song EP from Florida Georgia Line showcasing their forthcoming album while Brothers Osborne, Cody Jinks, Old Dominion, Sugarland, Shooter Jennings, Jason Isbell, Scotty McCreery and Chris Young all make appearances on our rundown this week.

Place Artist Album Week Total Scans
1 Jason Aldean Rearview Town 7,000 393,900
2 Cole Swindell All of It 7,000 45,900
3 Kenny Chesney Songs For The Saints 4,500 101,200
4 Luke Combs This One's For You (Too) 4,400 312,700
5 Chris Stapleton Traveller 3,200 2,345,200
6 Various Artists Now Country 11 2,600 61,200
7 Kane Brown Kane Brown 2,600 446,300
8 Alan Jackson Precious Memories 2 2,300 291,800
9 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Vol 2 2,300 833,800
10 Chris Stapleton From A Room: Vol 1 2,200 430,900
11 Caroline Jones Bare Feet 2,000 23,700
12 Aaron Watson Live At The World's Biggest Rodeo 2,000 2,000
13 Luke Bryan What Makes You Country 1,800 323,400
14 Dan + Shay Dan + Shay 1,800 49,300
15 Keith Urban Graffiti U 1,700 239,900
-- Dierks Bentley The Mountain 1,600 141,300
-- Brett Young Brett Young 1,400 230,200
-- Kid Rock Sweet Southern Sugar 1,400 170,200
-- Kenny Chesney Live In No Shoes Nation 1,400 483,500
-- Florida Georgia Line Florida Georgia Line EP 1,300 1,400
-- Brothers Osborne Port Saint Joe 1,200 56,500
-- Cody Jinks Lifers 1,100 28,600
-- Thomas Rhett Life Changes 1,100 292,000
-- Kacey Musgraves Golden Hour 1,000 99,100
-- Sugarland Bigger 1,000 50,900
-- Midland On The Rocks 900 90,900
-- Willie Nelson Last Man Standing 800 67,300
-- Tyler Childers Purgatory 700 40,400
-- Old Dominion Happy Endings 700 94,900
-- John Prine Tree Of Forgiveness 700 99,200
-- Shooter Jennings Shooter 700 5,100
-- Jon Pardi California Sunrise 600 251,000
-- Darius Rucker When Was The Last Time 600 114,500
-- Scotty McCreery Seasons Change 600 80,600
-- Kelsea Ballerini Unapologetically 600 112,000
Maren Morris Hero 500 296,500
-- Jason Isbell The Nashville Sound 500 147,300
-- Blake Shelton Texoma Shore 500 244,700
-- Chris Janson Everybody 400 40,700
-- Austin Lucas Immortal Americans 400 500
-- LANCO Hallelujah Nights 400 42,100
-- Ashley McBryde Girl Going Nowhere 400 24,500
-- Blackberry Smoke Find A Light 300 29,400
-- Chris Young Losing Sleep 300 104,000
-- Granger Smith When The Good Guys Win 300 38,600
-- Miranda Lambert The Weight Of These Wings 300 438,500
-- Lee Brice Lee Brice 300 37,100
-- Mitchell Tenpenny Mitchell Tenpenny EP 300 3,900
-- Carly Pearce Every Little Thing 300 36,300
-- The Lacs Dirt Rock 300 15,700
-- Kip Moore Slowheart 300 51,300
-- Zac Brown Band Welcome Home 300 308,600
-- Morgan Wallen If I Know Me 200 9,000
-- Michael Ray Amos 200 13,100

1 Comments

  • courtney

    I think you have the numbers for From A Room Vols 1 & 2 reversed it's sad to see how much album sales have fallen in the last 20 years other than in some special cases like Beatles 1 for example or Adele's 21 the former has sold nearly 13 million copies since it's release in November 2000 while 21 has shipped 15 million since it's February 2011 release