Feel that chill in the air? It’s not just climate change, friends. The music industry is suffering through historic lows in record sales, the worst since SoundScan started tallying them in 1991.
How are country artists faring? Let’s take a look at cumulative sales for current albums. Sales are rounded to the nearest hundred.
Top Selling Current Country Albums
- Taylor Swift, Fearless: 6,233,900
- Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift: 4,955,000
- Lady Antebellum, Need You Now: 3,138,700
- Taylor Swift, Speak Now: 3,078,600
- Zac Brown Band, The Foundation: 2,489,200
- Carrie Underwood, Play On: 1,937,041
- Lady Antebellum, Lady Antebellum: 1,835,800
- Jason Aldean, Wide Open: 1,364,700
- Miranda Lambert, Revolution: 1,149,000
- Rascal Flatts, Greatest Hits Volume 1: 994,600
- Sugarland, The Incredible Machine: 815,200
- Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party: 766,300
- Tim McGraw, Southern Voice: 749,200
- George Strait, Twang: 670,200
- Kenny Chesney, Hemingway’s Whiskey: 655,200
- Zac Brown Band, You Get What You Give: 636,000
- Rascal Flatts, Nothing Like This: 585,800
- Luke Bryan, Doin’ My Thing: 509,200
- Keith Urban, Get Closer: 508,200
- Brooks & Dunn, #1’s…and Then Some: 479,700
- Toby Keith, American Ride: 432,100
- Chris Young, The Man I Want to Be: 408,000
- Eric Church, Carolina: 380,600
- Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966: 376,700
- The Band Perry, The Band Perry: 364,000
- Josh Turner, Haywire: 361,800
- Justin Moore, Justin Moore: 325,600
- Easton Corbin, Easton Corbin: 314,000
- Toby Keith, Bullets in the Gun: 279,400
- Jamey Johnson, The Guitar Song: 256,300
- Gary Allan, Get Off on the Pain: 238,000
- Reba McEntire, All the Women I Am: 224,800
- Jerron Niemann, Judge Jerron & The Hung Jury: 222,700
- Billy Currington, Enjoy Yourself: 222,000
- Tim McGraw, Number One Hits: 220,500
- Dierks Bentley, Up on the Ridge: 204,900
- Zac Brown Band, Pass the Jar: 202,100
- Trace Adkins, Cowboy’s Back in Town: 194,200
- Johnny Cash, American VI: Ain’t No Grave: 190,100
- Brad Paisley, Hits Alive: 189,200
- Alan Jackson, 34 Number Ones: 181,000
- Blake Shelton, All About Tonight: 160,700
- Little Big Town, The Reason Why: 158,300
- Blake Shelton, Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton : 142,300
- Jaron and the Long Road to Love, Getting Dressed in the Dark: 119,700
- Josh Thompson, Way Out Here: 107,000
- Joe Nichols, Old Things New: 100,700
- Brantley Gilbert, Halfway to Heaven: 81,400
- Lee Brice, Love Like Crazy: 81,200
- Steel Magnolia, Steel Magnolia: 41,000
- Joey + Rory, Album Number Two: 34,100
- Randy Houser, They Call Me Cadillac: 30,900
