Blake Shelton and Florida Georgia Line Best Selling Country Artists in Q2 of 2013
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The second quarter sales figures for 2013 show a significant rise compared to the same period in 2012, especially when it comes to song downloads. Four songs cleared the one million threshold, and Florida Georgia Line‘s ‘Cruise’ was the spectacular outlier with almost 2.5 million downloads sold. Also highlighted is the selling power of Luke Bryan and Hunter Hayes. Their songs, ‘Crash My Party’ and ‘I Want Crazy,’ clocked up their over 800k sales in less than three months. We can expect both songs to clear one million too in the next few weeks.
Album sales went up again too, making country pretty much the only music genre where those numbers are increasing. Blake Shelton‘s latest release, Based on a True Story…, is the clear front-runner. The record outsold The Band Perry‘s Pioneer by almost 150k units, in no small part thanks to Shelton’s TV exposure on The Voice.
Top-selling country albums – second quarter 2013:
1) Blake Shelton – Based on a True Story… – 503,000
2) The Band Perry – Pioneer – 366,000
3) Lady Antebellum – Golden – 344,000
4) Florida Georgia Line – Here’s to the Good Times – 334,000
5) Kenny Chesney – Life on a Rock – 301,000
6) George Strait – Love Is Everything – 255,000
7) Darius Rucker – True Believers – 233,000
8) Brad Paisley – Wheelhouse – 229,000
9) Pistol Annies – Pistol Annies – 181,000
10) Luke Bryan – Spring Break…Here to Party – 167,000
Top-selling country digital songs – second quarter 2013:
1) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Cruise’ – 2,449,000
2) Blake Shelton feat. Pistol Annies & Friends – ‘Boys ’Round Here’ – 1,391,000
3) Darius Rucker – ‘Wagon Wheel’ – 1,246,000
4) Tim McGraw w/ Taylor Swift and Keith Urban – ‘Highway Don’t Care’ – 1,023,000
5) Luke Bryan – ‘Crash My Party’ – 896,000
6) Hunter Hayes – ‘I Want Crazy’ – 819,000
7) Miranda Lambert – ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’ – 687,000
8) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Get Your Shine On’ – 656,000
9) Lady Antebellum – ‘Downtown’ – 551,000
10) The Band Perry – ‘Done.’ – 544,000
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