McGraw rides "Shotgun" to the top
Keith Urban stayed third with "Somewhere in My Car." Maddie & Tea were in fourth with "Girl in a Country Song," one ahead of Sam Hunt's "Leave the Night On." Florida Georgia Line made it to eighth with "Sun Daze," up four. Eric Church made it into the top 10 with "Talladega" at 9, up 2.
Lee Brice's "Drinking Class" was 12th, up 4. Kenny Chesney stood at 14, up 3, with "Til It's Gone." Newcomer Craig Wayne Boyd debuted at 15 with "I Walk the Line." Luke Bryan jumped from 27 to 19 with "I See You." Randy Houser broke into the top 25 with "Like a Cowboy," at 24, up 2.
Jason Aldean was second on the albums chart with "Old Boots, New Dirt." Darius Rucker was third with "Home for the Holidays," Hunt fourth with "Montevallo" and Miranda Lambert fifth with "Platinum." Lady Antebellum jumped from 14 to 6 with "747."
Brantley Gilbert jumped from 20 to 7 with "Just As I Am." Cole Swindell's self-titled debut also was up 13, to 13. Brad Paisley was up 12 to 18 with "Moonshine in the Trunk." "Nashville Christmas" from the TV show "Nashville" debuted at 21. Dierks Bentley went from 28 to 23 with "Riser." Rascal Flatts stood at 25 with "Rewind," up 14.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn were first again with their self-titled disc. "When I'm Free" from Hot Rize stayed second. Alan Jackson was third with "The Bluegrass Album." "Bluegrass Gospel," a compilation album, was fourth with Nickel Creek fifth with "A Dotted Line."
On the overall top 200, Brooks was 11th, Aldean 23rd, Hunt 26th, Rucker 30th and Florida Georgia Line 31st. The country chart is based on sales, while the Billboard 200 is "ranked by album sales, audio on-demand streaming activity and digital sales of tracks from albums." That presumably accounts for why the charts are different.
More news for Tim McGraw
- 03/07/25: McGraw enlists McCollum to make "Paper Umbrellas"
- 10/11/24: McGraw releases "People Like Us"
- 01/29/24: McGraw has "One Bad Habit," also names opening acts for tour
- 11/21/23: McGraw drops surprise EP
- 09/25/23: McGraw expands Standing Room Only Tour
- 07/31/23: It's Standing Room Only for McGraw's tour
- 06/26/23: It's "Standing Room Only" for McGraw
- 04/27/23: It's "Standing Room Only" for McGraw's video
CD reviews for Tim McGraw
Tim McGraw's collection, "Here on Earth," finds the country star sounding peaceful and down to Earth. He's more meditative than overly active, throughout. It's very much an adult album in that McGraw is speaking from the perspective of maturity, rather than pretending he's still a young man. If he's got any barbecue statins on his white t-shirt, he's not letting on here.
McGraw burns through five mellow tracks before he gets to anything with a discernable beat. ...
Tim McGraw said of his 14th studio album, "Damn Country Music," "It's is all about passion, (taking him back to 1989) "when I came to Nashville to chase my dreams."
Country music has richly rewarded him over the past two decades, and he honors the genre's tradition here. The album gets off to a very traditional start with Celtic folk. The flute and skillful acoustic picking on the opener "Here Tonight" bring a Mark Knopfler tune immediately to mind. ...
The banjo comes first out of the speakers, the opening strains of "Overrated," the lead-off song on Tim McGraw's latest. But with a "1-2-3-4" count, the mood changes and goes for a more modern country approach. McGraw does about the same on the follow-up "City Lights" with Michael Landau's steely, but rocking lead guitar taking over near the conclusion as it does later hard on "Sick of Me" where the protagonist contemplates a need to turn his life around. ...
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