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Crunching the Numbers: July 2008, Part 5
There was quite a bit of discussion earlier this week about the scarcity of female artists on the radio these days. Then again, there’s usually quite a bit of discussion about the women in country...
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Crunching the Numbers: July 2008, Digital Edition
Carrie Underwood, Digital Queen One of the reasons cited for country's dramatic sales dip last year was that the consumer base was slow to adapting to digital distribution. Taking a look at both...
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Crunching the Numbers: Sugarland Moves to #1 Overall
Sugarland will move to #1 on the overall album chart this week, following a relatively small 45 percent drop from their opening week numbers. Last week, it entered at #2 with sales of 313,600....
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Here are the latest totals for albums released over the past three years that are still charting: 2009 Rascal Flatts, Unstoppable – 669,000 Keith Urban, Defying Gravity – 349,000 Jason Aldean, Wide...
View ArticleAlbum Sales Update: July 2009
It’s time for an album sales update, our first since . Brad Paisley is off to a strong start with American Saturday Night, selling 130k in its first week. That’s about 70k less than his previous two...
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Age Ain’t Nothin’ But a Number
While Taylor Swift mania continues to grow, there’s another impressive accomplishment being achieved by two veterans of country music on the opposite end of the age spectrum. Contrary to what is...
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Top-Selling Country Albums of 2009
Here are the top selling country albums of the calendar year 2009. The number in parentheses is the album’s rank on the overall list encompassing all genres. The totals are rounded to the nearest...
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Carrie Underwood and Female Country Artists: A Historical Perspective
I’ve always been something of a chart junkie. While I don’t pay as close attention as I used to, I still have a pretty good handle on historical trends. One artist I’ve been keeping an eye on is Carrie...
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Crunching the Numbers: January 2011
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...
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Crunching the Numbers: June 2011
It’s been a few months since we checked in with SoundScan. Here are the cumulative sales for both current and catalog country albums that are selling enough units to make the charts these days. 7...
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