Sound the trumpets and clap your hands — Lady Antebellum has struck gold. The trio’s
Golden debuts at No. 1 this week on both Billboard‘s country and Top 200 all-genres albums charts via Nielsen
SoundScan-confirmed sales of 167,314 copies.
Scooting in just behind Lady A at No. 2 is the new Pistol
Annies CD, Annie Up. It scanned 83,460 units.
And for the second week in a row, Florida
Georgia Line‘s “Get Your Shine On” is the most-played
country song.
There’s a batch of new albums to recognize. They include the soundtrack collection Nashville: The
Music of Nashville: Season 1, Volume 2 (entering at No. 5), the various-artists package Now That’s What I Call a Country
Party (No. 10).
Also Craig Campbell’s Never Forget (No. 27), Lenny
Cooper’s Mud Dynasty (No. 34), Dailey Vincent’s Brothers of the Highway
(No. 40) and Mickie James’ Somebody’s Gonna Pay (No. 56).
Bouncing back onto the chart are The Essential
Alan Jackson (No. 67), Don Williams’ And
So It Goes (No. 71) and the multi-artist Mud Digger: Volume 3 (No. 74).
Five new songs come aboard: Lady
Antebellum’s “Goodbye Town” (No. 46), Chris
Young‘s “Aw Naw” (No. 54), Krystal Keith’s “Daddy Dance With Me” (No. 58), Weston Burt’s “Lucky Sometimes” (No. 59) and
Gretchen Wilson’s “Still Rollin'” (No. 60).
Joe
Nichols‘ “Sunny and 75” returns at No. 56.
The No. 3 and No. 4 albums, in that order, are Kenny
Chesney‘s Life on a Rock (last week’s No. 1) and Blake Shelton’s Based
on a True Story.
Rounding out the Top 5 songs, in descending order, are Darius
Rucker‘s “Wagon Wheel,” Chesney’s “Pirate
Flag,” Miranda Lambert’s “Mama’s
Broken Heart” and Tim McGraw and Taylor
Swift‘s “Highway Don’t Care.”
Kinda leaves you
breathless, don’t it?