Country Music Sales Take a Crash Despite Luke Bryan's 'Party'
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2013 was not a great year for album sales. The advance of on-demand services and personalized radio further nibbled at already low sales figures. While there was a 8.4% decline in album sales overall compared to 2012, country album sales dropped by 10.7%. The sale of individual songs was down 1.6% overall, with again country harder hit with a 2% drop in sales compared to 2012.
All this despite Luke Bryan‘s top-selling album, Crash My Party, and Florida Georgia Line‘s multi-genre monster, ‘Cruise.’
Garth Brooks wouldn’t be Garth Brooks if he didn’t manage to buck the trend. His five-disc project, Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences, clocked up almost 800k sales in only its first month, having been released at Thanksgiving. But conversely, Keith Urban, who had been a pretty strong album artist, barely shifted over 100k of his latest, Fuse, in its first two months. And that’s with the additional American Idol exposure. Ouch.
Top-Selling Country Albums in 2013:
1) Luke Bryan – Crash My Party – 1,521,000
2) Florida Georgia Line – Here’s to the Good Times – 1,350,000
3) Blake Shelton – Based on a True Story… – 1,109,000
4) Taylor Swift – Red – 856,000
5) Garth Brooks – Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences – 771,000
6) The Robertsons – Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas – 745,000
7) Hunter Hayes – Hunter Hayes – 556,000
8) Lady Antebellum – Golden – 548,000
9) Luke Bryan – Spring Break…Here to Party – 543,000
10) Jason Aldean – Night Train – 523,000
Top-Selling Country Digital Songs in 2013:
1) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Cruise’ – 4,691,000
2) Darius Rucker – ‘Wagon Wheel’ – 2,520,000
3) Blake Shelton featuring Pistol Annies – ‘Boys ’Round Here’ – 2,265,000
4) Tim McGraw & Taylor Swift – ‘Highway Don’t Care’ – 1,809,000
5) Luke Bryan – ‘Crash My Party’ – 1,576,000
6) Blake Shelton – ‘Sure Be Cool If You Did’ – 1,536,000
7) Luke Bryan – ‘That’s My Kind of Night’ – 1,519,000
8) Hunter Hayes – ‘I Want Crazy’ – 1,513,000
9) Miranda Lambert – ‘Mama’s Broken Heart’ – 1,486,000
10) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Get Your Shine On’ – 1,455,000
Top-Selling Country Albums in Fourth-Quarter 2013:
1) The Robertsons – Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas – 808,000
2) Garth Brooks – Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences – 771,000
3) Luke Bryan – Crash My Party – 538,000
4) Florida Georgia Line – Here’s to the Good Times – 409,000
5) Blake Shelton – Based On a True Story… – 203,000
6) Scotty McCreery – See You Tonight – 178,000
7) Cassadee Pope – Frame by Frame – 141,000
8) Taylor Swift – Red – 136,000
9) Lady Antebellum – Golden – 120,000
10) Keith Urban – Fuse – 116,000
Top-Selling Country Digital Songs in Fourth-Quarter 2013:
1) Luke Bryan – ‘That’s My Kind of Night’ – 724,000
2) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Stay’ – 547,000
3) David Nail – ‘Whatever She’s Got’ – 454,000
4) Cassadee Pope – ‘Wasting All These Tears’ – 429,000
5) Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert – ‘We Were Us’ – 427,000
6) Florida Georgia Line – ‘Cruise’ – 400,000
7) Luke Bryan – ‘Drink a Beer’ – 396,000
8) Thomas Rhett – ‘It Goes Like This’ – 378,000
9) Eric Church – ‘The Outsiders’ – 377,000
10) Blake Shelton – ‘Mine Would Be You’ – 374,000
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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