After a few weeks topping the Nielsen SoundScan Hot 200 Albums charts, country music’s cavalcade of stars fell-off the Top spot (Colbie Calliat took the mantle from Reba) but four of the Top 10 albums this week were country records (5 of the Top 11).

For the second week in a row a country music album debuts at the top slot on the albums sales chart as “Twang” is the 4th George Strait album to top the Hot 200 Albums chart compiled by Nielsen SoundScan for Billboard.  How did other country albums fare this week?

In a remarkable streak of radio success (which has also been backed up in concert ticket and album sales), Brad Paisley is now country music's hottest hitmaker with a string of chart-toppers that reaches back over three album releases to 2005.