Ho hum, another week another solid week of sales for Scotty McCreery's "Clear As Day" album. What I found much more unexpected than the official gold certification this week is the fact that "Clear As Day" was able to top all the other country albums in the whole country to again reach #1 on the Country BillBoard charts. That makes seven weeks the album has been out and it has been ranked #1 for 3 weeks, #2 for 3 weeks and now back to #1 for its seventh week. And no, the album is not even by Taylor Swift! Having an album go gold in seven weeks is impressive enough, but to stay in the top 2 of the country charts that entire period is also quite a feat. His overall BillBoard placement also improved by one to #13 this week, which means for 7 straight weeks he has remained in the top 15 for all albums. Note that neither Lee nor Crystal's albums last year were ever in the Top 15 (Lee debuted at #19 and Crystal at #28). With a bunch of new releases for next week I doubt "Clear As Day" will remain in the top 15, but his sales numbers should remain strong as all album sales should increase substantially during the Thanksgiving shopping week.
My 10K prediction for Lauren's "Wildflower" was again off by 1,000, with her sales actually being 9,000 for the week, about the same as Brad Paisley's "This Is Country Music". This places Lauren's total at 145K after 6 weeks, and interestingly places Brad's total at 544K. At the pace that both Scotty's and Brad's albums are selling, I could see "Clear As Day" outselling "This is Country Music" in a few weeks which would be an interesting turn of events for Brad. Not only has The Band Perry's album outsold Brad's, but Scotty's could as well, so he could be on tour with two younger acts who have both outsold his most recent album. Hey, isn't he supposed to be the headliner?