Monday, September 27, 2010

Is Radio Playing What People Want To Hear?

from KrisCountry.com with Kris Daniels

Country Album Sales Rebound 
29% Increase - Led By Jamey Johnson's Guitar Song
Jamey Johnson's Guitar Song reaches the top of the Nielsen Soundscan Country Top 75 this week moving well over 62,000 units in his debut week.


Three more debut albums made it into the Soundscan Country Top 10 this week, including the compilation package Now That's Country Volume 3, Joey+Rory's Album Number Two and James Otto's Shake What God Gave You.


After a very soft prior week, Country Album Sales are up 29% (or 65,149 units) this week with many superstar album releases slated for the next few weeks.


The Soundscan Country Top 10
  1. Jamey Johnson/Guitar Song (62,778)
  2. Lady Antebellum/Need You Now (15,686)
  3. Various Artists/Now That's Country Vol. 3 (14,765)
  4. Zac Brown Band/Foundation (12,342)
  5. Miranda Lambert/Revolution (10,410)
  6. Trace Adkins/Cowboy's Back In Town ((8,852)
  7. Little Big Town/The Reason Why (8,672)
  8. Taylor Swift/Fearless (7,794)
  9. Joey+Rory/Album Number Two (6,981)
  10. James Otto/Shake What God Gave You (6,898)

Next week I’m putting together a Top 10 All In of the best fights on stage…Faith Hill is in obviously…Miranda…they are great….but I think maybe it would be “Anger management” not fights….

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