McCreery leads chart
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 – Scotty McCreery will have the top selling country disc in the U.S. when the charts are out Thursday as "See You Tonight" led the pack. The disc, his third overall, debuted in sixth on the overall chart with 52,000 units sold.
That is a big drop from his first disc. "Clear As Day" was first on the charts in 2011, selling 197,000 in its first week.
Pearl Jam had the number one selling album in the U.S. as "Lightning Bolt" sold 166,000 units. Country rootsy band The Avett Brothers were fifth with "Magpie and the Dandelion," selling 58,000 units.
Willie Nelson was ninth with "To All the Girls," selling 43,000. This was Nelson's highest-charting album since 1982, and only his second top 10 set ever. Nelson, 80, was last in the top 10 with 1982's "Always on My Mind," which spent four weeks at number two.
More news for Scotty McCreery
- 09/06/24: McCreery gives it up for NC State
- 05/10/24: Kelley, McCreery, Peck release new music
- 04/26/24: McCreery feels "Lonely"
- 03/29/24: McCreery unveils "Red Letter Blueprint"
- 03/01/24: McCreery will "Rise and Fall"
- 02/09/24: `McCreery touts "Love Like This"
- 01/23/24: McCreery drops "Cab in a Solo" video
- 12/04/23: McCreery invited to join Opry
CD reviews for Scotty McCreery
Scotty McCreery is somewhat of a guilty pleasure. American Idol winners are supposed to sell albums, lots of them. With three with three number ones on his resume, McCreery has certainly done his job well. But commercial success sometimes has its burdens. With an unabashed contemporary bent, aw shucks demeanor and flannel shirt, he was portrayed as a caricature of the genre on an SNL spoof
2013s "See You Tonight" was designed to market him as a more mature artist and to buck the stereotype. ...
"Boys from Back Home" is Scotty McCreery's amalgamation of Kenny Chesney's "I Go Back" and "Boys of Fall," which even borrows words from each hit song to create something attempting to be new. It's not new. Instead, it sounds more like songwriting by committee, relying upon radio listener demographics. Many of these songs were created to sound immediately familiar to mainstream ears. They will. This doesn't mean they're good, though, let alone meaningful. ...
Scotty McCreery's third release, "See You Tonight" is designed to market the season 10 American Idol champ as a more mature artist. Armed with songwriting heavies along with a guest vocal from Allison Krauss, it might work on paper. But in the end, he proves that his wheelhouse remains fun contemporary songs driven by his boy next door charm.
Ironically, for a fall release, the album is heavy on summertime themed tracks and upbeat party anthems. From Feel Good Summer Song to ...
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