Taylor Swift’s ‘Red’ Leads Billboard Top 30 Country Albums of 2012 Chart
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As expected, Taylor Swift‘s most recent album, Red, tops the Billboard Top 30 Country Albums of 2012 Chart. It deserves to top this list only if you consider this to be a country album, which I don’t; a criticism I have of two more albums in the top 10 (I will leave it to readers to work out which). But, to further assert her dominance in record sales, Swift also lands two other projects in this list: Speak Now at #18, and it’s companion Speak Now: World Tour Live at #21.
Impressive 2012 sales were also still recorded by Luke Bryan‘s Tailgates & Tanlines, which was released on August 9, 2011. This is probably in no small part due to his very successful tour run with Jason Aldean, whose own My Kinda Party album lands at #6 despite having been released over two years ago on November 10, 2010.
The importance of a pop following is shown, not just by Swift, but also by Lionel Richie (Tuskegee, #3), Lady Antebellum (Own the Night, #4), and Carrie Underwood (Blown Away, #5), who all sell the majority (or at least a significant minority) of their albums to pop music fans.
Among my personal favorites who made the list are The Band Perry‘s self titled debut album (#11), Tim McGraw‘s Emotional Traffic (#23), Lee Brice‘s Hard 2 Love (#25), Kip Moore‘s Up All Night (#27), and Dierks Bentley‘s Home (#28).
Billboard Top 30 Country Albums of 2012 Chart:
1. Red – Taylor Swift
2. Tailgates & Tanlines – Luke Bryan
3. Tuskegee – Lionel Richie
4. Own The Night – Lady Antebellum
5. Blown Away – Carrie Underwood
6. My Kinda Party – Jason Aldean
7. Chief – Eric Church
8. Clear As Day – Scotty Mccreery
9. Night Train – Jason Aldean
10. Uncaged – Zac Brown Band
11. The Band Perry – The Band Perry
12. Welcome To The Fishbowl – Kenny Chesney
13. Clancy’s Tavern – Toby Keith
14. Four The Record – Miranda Lambert
15. Halfway To Heaven – Brantley Gilbert
16. Red River Blue – Blake Shelton
17. Changed – Rascal Flatts
18. Speak Now – Taylor Swift
19. Tornado – Little Big Town
20. You Get What You Give – Zac Brown Band
21. Speak Now: World Tour Live – Taylor Swift
22. Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes
23. Emotional Traffic – Tim McGraw
24. Hell On Heels – Pistol Annies
25. Hard 2 Love – Lee Brice
26. Thirty Miles West – Alan Jackson
27. Up All Night – Kip Moore
28. Home – Dierks Bentley
29. Barefoot Blue Jean Night – Jake Owen
30. Outlaws Like Me – Justin Moore
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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