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Shelton leads chart

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 – Blake Shelton will have the top selling country disc again with "Based on a True Story..." when Billboard released its charts on Thursday. Shelton also has the fourth best selling disc in the U.S. with 36,000 units sold, down 13 percent.

Rock band Queens of the Stone Age has the top selling disc with "...Like Clockwork," which sold 91,000 units in its first week.

Darius Rucker is fifth overall on the overall sales chart with "True Believers," at 33,000 units, down 18 percent.

Florida Georgia Line was eighth with "Here's to the Good Times," at 28,000 units, up 26 percent. The duo benefited from winning two CMT Music Awards last week and performing on the show.

FGL's hit single Cruise was second on the Digital Songs chart with 225,000 downloads sold, up 15 percent, its second best week yet. Nine weeks ago, the song sold 248,000 downloads thanks to a pop-based mix with Nelly. The song has sold more than 4 million downloads, the fifth country song to sell at least 4 million. Lady Antebellum's Need You Now is first at 6.1 million.


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CD review - Fully Loaded: God's Country Blake Shelton has been openly critical of the traditional album format. "Fully Loaded: God's Country" is his fourth greatest hits album and third in the "Loaded" series. In an effort to release music more often, he packages five new songs with seven of previously released material that has received considerable airplay and time on the charts. if you're looking for the fresh stuff, this is essentially an EP spearheaded by the Platinum lead single "God's Country. ...
CD review - Texoma Shore Blake Shelton's 11th studio album finds The Voice advisor in a contented, one might even say homey, frame of mind. The opening track and first single "I'll Name the Dogs" sets the tone. It's a rollicking ode to domesticity that manages to make household chore distribution ("You find the spot and I'll find the money / You be the pretty and I'll be the funny") both romantic and amusing. The beat switches to hip-hop on "Money," but the sentiment ...
CD review - Live EP This six-song "Blake Shelton Live EP" seems a little odd. It's not as though Shelton had an especially noteworthy tour to document. Besides, at only six songs long, it's a relatively short document, anyhow. While it may be little more than a post-it note of a project, though, it also packs a powerful punch. You recognize right away the large amount of enthusiasm the act of singing to an audience brings out of Shelton. When compared to the recorded versions of these hits, ...


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