This Is Country Music And We Dominate The Charts This Week
1/4 of the Top 80 albums on the SoundScan Hot 200 Albums chart this week belong to country music, once again proving the strength of country music and its ability to sell music when so many artists are struggling to do so. Find out how all the stars fared this week.
Brad Paisley Leads Country Stars on Charts
As to be expected, Brad Paisley scored Country music's highest chart debut this week with his latest album "American Saturday Night." While country music experienced another solid week, How Did Tanya Tucker's "My Turn" fare this week?
Country Charts Remain Rascal Flatts' Domain
While it tumbled from the top spot to third on the SoundScan Top 200 Albums chart, Rascal Flatts' "Unstoppable" album remained on top of the Country Albums chart while the album's first single "Here Comes Goodbye" tops the singles chart. How did everyone else do?
Rascal Flatts and Country Music Are Unstoppable On This Week's Charts
With last week's ACM Awards helping to guide the way for other releases, Rascal Flatts scored their 4th #1 spot on the SoundScan Hot 200 albums sales char this week with "Unstoppable" selling over 350,000 copies while Jason Aldean's "Wide Open" sold 100k to land 4th.
Taylor Swift Is Music's Top-Selling Artist For 2008
For the second time in three years a Country music artist has topped Neilsen SoundScan's year-end, all-genre cumulative album sales chart. Rascal Flatts did so in 2006 and Teen Queen Taylor Swift takes home the honor this year, beating out the likes of Lil' Wayne.
On The Charts: September 3, 2008
The latest Soundscan numbers are out and once again Kid Rock finds himself high on the charts with his nearly year old (non digitally released) album. The new releases last week included Jimmy Wayne, The Lost Trailers, Jason Boland & The Stragglers and the Now Country compilation. How did it all go down? read more to find out.
On The Charts: August 13
Heidi Newfield lead the pack of new releases at country radio this week with her solo debut "What Am I Waiting For" landing at #2 on the country chart while Keith Anderson's "C'mon" landed third. Sugarland continued to lead the pack with "Love on the Inside."
Sugarland Scores Number One Album and Single
The first week of August 2008 is a week Sugarland will never forget. In addition to seeing their album rise to #1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, the duo's single "All I Want To Do," which Bobby Pinson co-wrote, topped the Billboard/R&R Hot Country Songs chart as well. In addition, find out how other stars fared on the charts this week.
On The Charts This Week
Like death and taxes, another week has come to an end with Taylor Swift selling the most country albums this week. The question seems to be, though, are any other country artists going to be able to take over the throne?











