The king of country music is back. George Strait has another home run on his hands with the best-selling album debut in country music for all of 2019 thus far. Honky Tonk Time Machine is his 27th #1 album and proved one again why he's called the King. Starting out at #2 with his album Guy, Steve Earle has re-teamed with his band The Dukes for the project which honors Guy Clark. Sitting at #3 is the 12th edition of the Now! That's What I Call Country! series of albums. Luke Combs' This One's For You (Too) sits at #4 while Jake Owen debuts at #5 with Greetings From...Jake, his debut for Big Loud Records (a debut without a physical copy).
Locash debuts at #6 with Brothers, their third album and debut with BBR Music Group's Wheelhouse Records. Chris Stapleton, Kacey Musgraves, Florida Georgia Line and Maren Morris round out the Top 10 with notable albums showcasing Kane Brown, Cody Johnson, Kelsea Ballerini, Ashley McBryde, Brothers Osborne, Mitchell Tenpenny, Carrie Underwood, Loretta Lynn and Eli Young Band, among many others. Below, you'll find the complete rundown.
| Place | Artist | Album | Week | Total Scans |
| 1 | George Strait | Honky Tonk Time Machine | 43,900 | 43,900 |
| 2 | Steve Earle/Dukes | GUY | 7,800 | 7,800 |
| 3 | Various Artists | Now Country 12 | 5,300 | 5,300 |
| 4 | Luke Combs | This One's For You (Too) | 4,100 | 448,300 |
| 5 | Jake Owen | Greetings From...Jake | 4,000 | 4,000 |
| 6 | LoCash | Brothers | 3,800 | 3,800 |
| 7 | Chris Stapleton | Traveller | 3,700 | 2,471,500 |
| 8 | Kacey Musgraves | Golden Hour | 3,300 | 206,100 |
| 9 | Florida Georgia Line | Can't Say I Ain't Country | 3,000 | 60,500 |
| 10 | Maren Morris | GIRL | 2,900 | 37,600 |
| 11 | Josh Turner | I Serve A Savior | 2,400 | 93,000 |
| 12 | Carrie Underwood | Cry Pretty | 2,400 | 447,100 |
| 13 | Chris Stapleton | From A Room: Vol 2. | 2,000 | 510,600 |
| 14 | Kane Brown | Experiment | 1,700 | 197,100 |
| 15 | Kane Brown | Kane Brown | 1,600 | 518,500 |
| -- | Dan + Shay | Dan + Shay | 1,500 | 121,700 |
| -- | Eric Church | Desperate Man | 1,400 | 203,600 |
| -- | Jason Aldean | Rearview Town | 1,200 | 477,200 |
| -- | Brett Young | Ticket To L.A. | 1,100 | 57,700 |
| -- | Cody Johnson | Ain't Nothin' To It | 1,000 | 40,200 |
| -- | Luke Bryan | What Makes You Country | 900 | 362,800 |
| -- | Kelsea Ballerini | Unapologetically | 900 | 142,900 |
| -- | Ashley McBryde | Girl Going Nowhere | 900 | 37,200 |
| -- | Eli Young Band | This Is Eli Young Band: Greatest | 900 | 900 |
| -- | Granger Smith | When The Good Guys Win | 700 | 45,200 |
| -- | Kenny Chesney | Songs For The Saints | 600 | 147,300 |
| -- | Brothers Osborne | Port Saint Joe | 500 | 82,500 |
| -- | Pistol Annies | Interstate Gospel | 500 | 70,900 |
| -- | jon pardi | California Sunrise | 500 | 266,300 |
| -- | Morgan Wallen | If I Know Me | 500 | 17,200 |
| -- | Joey+Rory | The Singer & The Song: Best Of | 500 | 19,200 |
| -- | John Prine | The Tree Of Forgiveness | 500 | 147,200 |
| -- | Maren Morris | Hero | 400 | 312,500 |
| -- | Mitchell Tenpenny | Telling All My Secrets | 400 | 27,800 |
| -- | Loretta Lynn | Wouldn't It Be Great | 400 | 25,700 |
| -- | Cole Swindell | All Of it | 400 | 96,700 |
| -- | Lee Brice | Lee Brice | 400 | 44,700 |
| -- | Cody Jinks | Lifers | 400 | 46,700 |
| -- | Brothers Osborne | Pawn Shop | 300 | 230,200 |
| -- | Dierks Bentley | The Mountain | 300 | 187,200 |
| -- | Randy Houser | Magnolia | 300 | 11,700 |
| -- | Keith Urban | grafitti U | 300 | 279,100 |
| -- | Scotty McCreery | Seasons Change | 300 | 94,800 |
| -- | Willie Nelson | Last Man Standing | 200 | 82,900 |
| -- | Blake Shelton | Texoma Shore | 200 | 256,700 |
| -- | Kid Rock | Sweet Southern Sugar | 200 | 184,600 |
| -- | Jimmie Allen | Mercury Lane | 200 | 13,500 |
| -- | Darius Rucker | When Was The Last Time | 200 | 123,400 |
| -- | Kenny Chesney | Live In No Shoes Nation | 200 | 488,800 |
| -- | Chris Young | Losing Sleep | 200 | 117,000 |
Un-Cultured Swine
Oh, never mind. They are being published.... they stalled going through
Un-Cultured Swine
@ Matt Bjorke, my comments aren't going through???
Matt Bjorke
Hello?
Un-Cultured Swine
Why are comments disabled???
Fiddle Me This
@ Courtney from down bellow.... Yes album sales are down if you are just looking at physical sales. Cry Pretty has a massive 450k sales number. Her record label probably just hasn't announced it has gone platinum yet. Platinum is 1 million sales (including streaming and physical). Gold is 500k (in streaming and physical) ...
Fiddle Me This
I'm kind of confused with Jake owen... his album is only available for streaming and downloading? You can't buy a physical album at your local Target or Walmart?? What about a physical album sent to you from Amazon? Seems like a really awful way to market music... and his 4k sales numbers (apparently only streaming numbers) are further evidence. Is this the first time in country mainstream history that a brand new album isn't released physically? I hope this isn't the future of Country album marketing
Matt Bjorke
There have been other albums to not receive widespread physical retail presence. In the case of Jake Owen, it likely hurt him alot as he's been around since the beginning of digital. But his label has only produced physical product in a wide scale for their first release, Chris Lane's first album. Lane's second album and Morgan Wallen's album both have yet to receive any sort of physical retail presence except for shows and personal/label websites.
Courtney
ouch at how far weekly sales have fallen since 2005 for the most part Cry Pretty in 7 months is only gold while for example Carrie's Debut album Some Hearts was certified 4 x platinum just shy of it's 12th month of release. of course some albums chart for years on end Adele's 21 for example has charted for nearly 8 years in the over 8 years of it's release there were only 3 months where it didn't appear on the billboard 200 there was a time when 44,000 would barely get you the top 100 of the billboard 200 for example Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas entered the top ten of the 200 in the week ending 12/3/1994 selling 90,000 copies that week and by the week ending 12/31/1994 the album had sold over 1.1 million copies and had shipped 3 million copies in the US earning triple platinum certification in it's first 9 weeks of release