Cash sells 54K, but not enough to top Lady A
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 – Johnny Cash had the third biggest selling disc in the U.S. this past week with "American VI: Ain't No Grave," but it wasn't enough to be the top selling country disc. That honor once again belongs to Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," which was second behind Sade.
Lady A sold 118,000 units, down 18 percent from the previous week. Sade sold 127,000 units, down 34 percent, of "Soldier of Love." Cash registered 54,000 units sold. His last disc, "American V: A Hundred Highways," debuted in first with 88,000 units sold in July 2006.
Taylor Swift remained in the top 10 with "Fearless" at 9 with 28,000 units sold, down 13 percent..
Overall sales continue to slide with CD sales down 13 percent compared to the comparable sales week of 2009 with 5.99 million units sold.
More news for Johnny Cash
- 06/28/24: Cash, Butts, Snell release. new music
- 06/24/21: Live from the Carousel Ballroom 53 years later, the Man in Black
- 09/25/20: Cash drummer dies at 85
- 09/19/19: Dylan, Cash recordings resurface
- 11/17/16: Cash property goes on market
- 08/17/15: Cash, Dylan producer Bob Johnston dies
- 04/02/14: Cash leads country chart
- 03/25/14: Cash (yes, Johnny Cash), Niemann release new music
CD reviews for Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash's live set was released on vinyl in Czechoslovakia in 1983. U.S. fans became aware of "Koncert v Praze (In Prague-Live)" when it was issued in the U.S. as part of the deluxe box set "Johnny Cash: The Complete Columbia Album Collection" in 2012. This marks the first time it was released as a single CD
Recorded on-stage in Czechoslovakia in April 1978,
- one of two recent reissues by the label of foreign concerts (the other was a Denmark show in December ...
Like many icons who have since departed the planet, Johnny Cash left behind a legacy that continues to flourish - in the songs he left behind, in their interpretation by others and in the man's own recordings, which still sound as fresh and vital as they were when first released.
This vintage concert offers a case in point. Recorded at the peak of his prowess, it finds him replaying his classic hits - "A Boy Named Sue," "Folsom Prison Blues," "I Walk the Line" ...
One would think that with all the archival music, reissues and postmortem tributes released on Johnny Cash's behalf, the vaults would have been scraped pretty clean by now, with only scraps left for dedicated completists to feast upon. So it comes as no small surprise to find that the Cash archivists actually uncovered some entire sessions that haven't been unearthed until now. Recorded in the early '80s, "Out Among The Stars" is such a high quality collection that it ...
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