Blackberry Smoke, Hunt lead Billboard
On the albums chart, Jason Aldean was third with "Old Boots, New Dirt." Florida Georgia Line was fourth with "Anything Goes." Miranda Lambert was fifth with "Platinum." Robert Earl Keen debuted in 10th with "Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions," his first ever bluegrass album.
Tim McGraw was up 4 to 17 with "Sundown Heaven Town." Brandy Clark was at 24 with "12 Stories," up 5. She performed at the Grammys, usually a boost for sales.
Thomas Rhett was second on the songs chart, up two, with "Make Me Wanna." Luke Bryan was third with "I See You." Florida Georgia Line's "Sun Daze" was fourth, and Blake Shelton stayed fifth with "Lonely Tonight" where he gets a little help from Ashley Monroe.
Brett Eldredge moved four spots to sixth with "Mean To Me." Randy Houser broke into the top 10 with "Like a Cowboy" in ninth, up two. Cole Swindell rounded out the top 10 with "Ain't Worth the Whiskey," up 2.
Miranda Lambert jumped 10 to 14 with "Little Red Wagon," the song she sang at the Grammys.
A Thousand Horses scored its first top 25 with "Smoke" at 22, up 4. Eric Paslay made it into the top 25 - at 25 - with "She Don't Love You," up 3.
On the Bluegrass Albums chart, Keen debuted in first. "Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Sorrow" was second. Punch Brothers was third with " The Phosphorescent Blues." A compilation disc, "Bluegrass Gospel," was fourth with The Earls of Leicester self-titled debut fifth.
On the overall top 200, Hunt was 18th, Blackberry Smoke 29th, Aldean 30th, Carrie Underwood 35th with "Greatest Hits: Decade #1" and Bryan 37th with "Crash My Party." The top 200 order is different than the Top Country Albums chart because of differing methodology.
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- 08/16/22: Blackberry Smoke celebrates "The Whippoorwill" anniversary with tour
- 09/08/20: Isbell, Blackberry Smoke play drive-in gigs
- 01/07/19: Blackberry Smoke plans to Break It Down acoustically
- 07/19/18: Blackberry Smoke announces acoustic set
- 04/06/18: Blackberry Smoke tries to "Find a Light"
- 02/16/18: Blackberry Smoke offers "Best Seat In The House"
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