Weekly Register: Chris Stapleton, Keith Urban Top Country Charts

Chris Stapleton. Photo: Terry Wyatt/Webster PR

Chris Stapleton. Photo: Terry Wyatt/Webster PR

Chris Stapleton‘s Traveller returns to the top of the country albums rankings this week, with 11K sold. Those numbers put the album topping 1.781 million in sales to date.

Miranda Lambert‘s The Weight Of These Wings is at No. 2 with 7.8K sold. Keith Urban‘s Ripcord lands at No. 3, with 7.7K sold, followed by Blake Shelton‘s If I’m Honest at No. 4, with 7.5k sold. Jason Aldean‘s They Don’t Know is at No. 5 with 6.2K.

Garth BrooksUltimate Hits remains in the top spot on the Country catalog chart, selling 4.7K this week, for total sales of 2.648 million.

Overall album sales are down 15.2 percent year to date, while overall digital album sales are down 16.9 percent year to date. Country album sales have decreased 1.8 percent, while country digital album sales declined 15.1 percent year to date.

Keith Urban

Keith Urban

On the digital track sales chart, Urban’s “Blue Ain’t Your Color” remains in the top slot, with 32K sold, for a total of 692K to date. Little Big Town‘s “Better Man” is at No. 2, with 26K, while Jon Pardi‘s “Dirt On My Boots” lands at No. 3, with 21K. Florida Georgia Line‘s “May We All” featuring Tim McGraw is at No. 4, with 19K, while Little Big Town‘s 2015 hit “Girl Crush” remains in the Top 5 this week with 18K sold, following last week’s return to the chart.

Brantley Gilbert‘s “Outlaw In Me” debuts at No. 29 country (No. 119 overall), with 7K sold.

Overall track sales have declined 25.7 percent year to date, while country track sales have decreased 26.1 percent YTD.

Information provided by Nielsen Soundscan.

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