Three country CDs make Billboard top 10
Sunday, May 15, 2016 – Three country discs are on the Billboard top 10 led by Keith Urban's "Ripcord."
Urban debuted in fourth with 106,000 units (93,000 in pure album sales). He did slightly better than 2013's "Fuse," which debuted at number 1 with 98,000 copies sold.
Cole Swindell's "You Should Be Here" debuted in sixth with 76,000 units and 65,000 copies sold. That surpassed his 2014 debut, which entered the charts at number 3 with 63,000 units sold.
Chris Stapleton closed out the top 10 with "Traveller," selling 31,000 units, down 2 percent.
Drake was first on the chart with "Views" moving 219,000 units in its second week out. Numbers include total track and sales equivalent albums.
The charts will be officially released on Tuesday.
More news
- 07/07/25: Stapleton, Lambert have "A Song To Sing"
- 06/27/25: McCollum, Swindell drop new records
- 05/12/25: Swindell singles out "We Can Always Move On"
- 05/05/25: ACM honors Urban with Triple Crown Award
- 04/21/25: Childers, Stapleton headline recovery-based music fest
- 04/07/25: Swindell lauches Happy Hour Sad Tour in late summer
- 03/25/25: Swindell grows with "Spanish Moss"
- 02/12/25: Strait, Stapleton continue stadium tour
CD reviews
Following hits "Straight Line," "Wildside" and "Go Home W U" featuring Lainey Wilson, Keith Urban drops thematically driven and pleasantly electrifying album "High," a nearly four-year drop since 2020's "The Speed of Now Part 1."
Urban took great interest in feelings and experiences associated with the word "high," reflecting on his own passions approaching the sensation or "place of utopia" as Urban dubs it . ...
There was a bit of a controversy at the recent CMAs when Chris Stapleton beat out Morgan Wallen for best male vocalist, especially after Wallen had such a huge year, commercially speaking. Yes, one can make the case that Wallen is the most popular male singer in country music these days. However, when it comes to pure singing, Stapleton is arguably the genre's most naturally talented singer. He doesn't really need any more proof of that, of course, but his "Higher" album ...
Already successful as both a songwriter and a headlining performer, Cole Swindell's showcases both sides of that equation. The album includes seven co-writes of his own among the 13 tracks and some solid vocal turns on the hits that continue to prove that he is more than just a hit songwriter.
"Never Say Never, a duet with Lainey Wilson, is the powerful centerpiece. The song is arranged so the two singers' lines snake around each other as a bona fide 80's power ballad unfurls ...
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