Zac Brown Band leads charts
Wednesday, May 6, 2015 – Zac Brown Band has the leading album in the country with "Jekyll + Hyde," its third chart topper, according to Billboard magazine.
ZBB debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, which is officially out on Thursday, with sales of 228,000 equivalent album units for the week ending May 3. The disc is benefitting from appealing to different genres, including country, of course, and rock. The song "Heavy is the Head" with Chris Cornell is sitting atop the Mainstream Rock Songs chart for a second week. "Homegrown" topped the country charts.
Tyler Farr debuted in fourth with "Suffer in Peace." The sophomore disc from Farr sold 42,000 units.
The Billboard 200 figures include album sales, streaming and track equivalent albums.
More news for Zac Brown Band
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- 10/27/23: ZBB has "Baby O'Riley" covered
- 09/29/23: ZBB likes "The Way You Look Tonight"
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- 09/16/22: ZBB, Andress join forces "Any Day Now"
CD reviews for Zac Brown Band
If you have even a passing familiarity of Zac Brown's personal history starting around 2018, you know the inspiration for this CD's title. First, Brown's 12-year marriage collapsed. Then, the world shook its collective head when he released a solo pop record ("Controversy") simultaneous to a ZBB release ("The Owl"). Why saturate the market with oneself, especially when the solo outing was a mess? The cover of that pop/hip-hop experimentation said it all: Brown, ...
With "Welcome Home," the Zac Brown Band continues to do what it does best, which is making quality roots music. In fact, one of the album's songs is even titled "Roots." Brown may not be the most religious guy, but his latest songs focus on many truly spiritual cornerstones of life: family and friends.
Both "Family Table" and "My Old Man" find Brown reflecting on his family life, with the latter also looking at 'the here and now' of being a father himself. ...
Fans looking for the Zac Brown Band of 2005 won't find it in "Jekyll + Hyde" - there's nothing but an aftertaste of the Georgia group's chicken-fried origins. That might be why the album's name is so appropriate. Fans have gotten to know the country-folk band, but a deviant creeps in on all 16 tracks of its fourth album. And, like the classic story, Hyde stands out as more interesting.
It hits hard, too. The opener, "Beautiful Drug," has an electric-pop ...
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