Country Album Sales Comparison

[snoopytan86]

The sales are pretty depressing..

 

[Eder Rodrigues]

Update:

I included Eric Church, Miranda Lambert and Brantley Gilbert. I'm going to put only the first 10 weeks and update the total for every album weekly.

Predictions for Florida Georgia Line went from 350k, to 100-200k and now is at 185-195k. The Swon Brothers will open with 10-12k.

 

[mooret]

you dont think there is over one hundred thousand true fans of carries that would buy G.H. ! with new music on album something in the water is worth buying it!!! i no 10 people that are buying it but have not ordered yet but will and maybe more!!

 

[opry051008]

Thanks Eder, you are AWESOME and so good to us Carrie fans.

I was thinking that you should create another thread so that you can post your updates in the first post of that thread and I'll close this one.

 

[countrymama22]

Poor Brad

 

[JB172]

Album sales are so bad that getting an album to go platinum now a days is a major accomplishment.

 

[Kizmet311]

Eder, thank you so much for doing this for us. I am loving your chart, although the album sales are truly dismal. So far, I have bought Miranda Lamber, Brad and the Swon Brothers. I will get around to buying Lady A before the end of the year probably. Do you need someone to help you find the current totals for Eric Church and Miranda Lambert's albums?

 

[Pi314CA]

Eder, thank you for assimilating all these sales figures. With all the first week sales numbers already gathered, may I request a tabulation of previous album to current album comparison for various country artists. It seems that the album-to-album first week sales have dropped about 30-40%. Unfortunately, that is the state of this industry.

 

[Eder Rodrigues]

Eder, thank you for assimilating all these sales figures. With all the first week sales numbers already gathered, may I request a tabulation of previous album to current album comparison for various country artists. It seems that the album-to-album first week sales have dropped about 30-40%. Unfortunately, that is the state of this industry.

Just a few artists

 

[Kizmet311]

Eder, thanks so much! I love your charts! I think that you should start a new thread in the music forum and put all your charts in the first or second posts. Then the moderators can make them a sticky and we can keep them for as long as you are willing to update them.

 

[Pi314CA]

Thanks for the stats, Eder!

 

[opry051008]

The sales are pretty depressing..

I just looked at this weeks album sales at Roughstock. Maybe I should be glad Carrie isn't releasing an album this quarter after all.

	Top 10 Country Albums With Notables
Top 10	Top 200	Artist	Album	Sales	Total
	1	Jason Aldean	Old Boots, New Dirt	278,000	278,000
	6	Blake Shelton	Bringing Back The Sunshine	34,000	135,000
	11	Lady Antebellum	747	24,000	98,000
	14	Kenny Chesney	The Big Revival	20,000	188,000
	31	George Strait	Cowboy Rides Away Live	11,000	98,000
	34	Tim McGraw	Sundown HeavenTown	9,000	116,000
	37	Luke Bryan	Crash My Party	9,000	2,164,000
	42	Brad Paisley	Moonshine In The Trunk	7,000	102,000
	48	Alabama	Angels Among Us	7,000	34,000
	50	Brantley Gilbert	Just As I Am	7,000	591,000
Notables	54	Soundtrack	Best Of Me Film OST	6,200	6,200
	81	Chase Rice	Ignite The Night	6,100	93,900
	--	Doug Seegers	Going Down To The River	1,900	1,900
	--	Keith Urban	Fuse	1,500	397,100
	--	Old Dominion	Old Dominion EP	1,000	1,000
	--	Scotty McCreery	See You Tonight	700	252,400
	--	JoDee Messina	Me	600	9,100

 

[Kizmet311]

Wow, Keith Urban can't even scan gold now? How long has Fuse been out?

Let's face it. Bro country dominates. It's the only thing selling platinum anymore.

 

[Gator]

Interesting. Pretty low sales from some of country's 'heavy hitters'. It seems Kenny Chesney's songs fly up the chart, but comparable sales aren't there. His new song "Til It's Gone" is already at #22 on Mediabase.

 

[adam1995]

Maybe because there are so many country albums being released this quarter the sales are puulling away from each artist as people may only be purchasing one album instead of one each week.

 

[ethelu]

Maybe because there are so many country albums being released this quarter the sales are puulling away from each artist as people may only be purchasing one album instead of one each week.

That's very possible, it's a really crowded field right now. Carrie waiting until December seems like a good idea now, even if it is closer to Christmas than I wanted, lol!

 

[gocountrymusic]

Interesting. Pretty low sales from some of country's 'heavy hitters'. It seems Kenny Chesney's songs fly up the chart, but comparable sales aren't there. His new song "Til It's Gone" is already at #22 on Mediabase.

I feel like Blake Shelton's most recent singles have been performing the same way.

 

[Gator]

Eder~ Just saw this on Twitter:

Chart News @chartnews · 5m5 minutes ago

US album sales: @mirandalambert, Platinum 484,000.

 

[PNGcarriefan95]

^Do you guys think ML will be able to go Platinum with her Platinum album? As in not just certified for shipments but actual sales of the album. SB is kind of almost done on radio and that's the 2nd single and according to the above tweet she has yet to get past 500K in actual sales. I don't see her performing on any mainstream shows, maybe the Grammys but I really don't think so.

 

[maddkat]

^ I doubt Platinum ever ships enough to be certified platinum much less sells 1 mil.