Brad Paisley’s “Water” is the crowning country song for the second week, Billboard reports, while Lady Antebellum’s Need You Now luxuriates in its 23rd week as the No. 1 country album. [..]
Miranda Lambert’s “Only Prettier” is the highest-debuting new song, bowing in at No. 45. The other newcomers are John Rich’s “Country Done Come to Town” (No. 52), Danny Gokey’s “I Will Not Say Goodbye” (No. 53), the Zac Brown Band’s “A Different Kind of Fine” (No. 58), Stealing Angels’ “He Better Be Dead” (No. 59) and LeAnn Rimes’ “Swingin’” (No. 60). [..]
This column often mentions the generally sorry state of country album sales. But there are some bright spots worth noting. Need You Now, for example, has sold more than 2.3 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Looking at other titles released this year, we see that Josh Turner’s Haywire total tops 276,000. Blake Shelton’s Hillbilly Bone has steamed past 217,000. Easton Corbin’s self-titled debut album has racked up sales of nearly 190,000 units. And Danny Gokey’s My Best Days is bordering on 160,000.
CMT.com ‘It’s Still a Brad Paisley-Lady Antebellum World on Country Charts’
– July 10, 2010Posted in: News/Articles
