Zac Brown Band, Taylor Swift and Little Big Town Are Country’s Big Sellers in Third Quarter of 2012
12 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Zac Brown Band, Taylor Swift and Little Big Town Are Country’s Big Sellers in Third Quarter of 2012
Though it also experienced a downturn in sales, just like every other genre, country music fans still loyally buy records. Billboard compiled the third quarter country sales figures for this year, and Zac Brown Band is the big winner when it comes to album sales. Their recent release, Uncaged, shifted 536,000 copies, more than double the figure for the second best-seller (but older record), Luke Bryan‘s Tailgates & Tanlines. Surprising, to me at least, are the relatively low sales for Carrie Underwood‘s Blown Away, considering she appeals to a large cross-over audience.
It is that same pop audience which helped Taylor Swift‘s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ to its massive sales figure. With over 2 million downloads, it tops the digital chart for Q3, even after not being very well received at country radio. Little Big Town not only achieved their first #1 hit with ‘Pontoon,’ but the song racked up an impressive sales figure of over 1 million units. Matching its fast climb up the radio charts, Jason Aldean‘s ‘Take a Little Ride’ was purchased over 760,000 times in just 11 weeks, and since the figures were compiled, Luke Bryan’s ‘Drunk on You’ and Florida Georgia Line‘s ‘Cruise’ both topped 500k giving them RIAA gold certification. Tim McGraw‘s ‘Truck Yeah’ and Lee Brice‘s ‘Hard to Love’ are by now also just a few downloads away from that watershed.
Top-Selling Country Albums, Third-Quarter 2012
1) Zac Brown Band, Uncaged – 536,000
2) Luke Bryan, Tailgates & Tanlines – 227,000
3) Carrie Underwood, Blown Away – 221,000
4) Kenny Chesney, Welcome to the Fishbowl – 209,000
5) Little Big Town, Tornado – 197,000
6) Eric Church, Chief – 160,000
7) Hunter Hayes, Hunter Hayes – 113,000
8) Lionel Richie, Tuskegee – 108,000
9) Jason Aldean, My Kinda Party – 106,000
10) Colt Ford, Declaration of Independence – 93,000
Top-Selling Country Digital Songs, Third-Quarter 2012
1) Taylor Swift, ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ – 2,058,000
2) Little Big Town, ‘Pontoon’ – 1,017,000
3) Hunter Hayes, ‘Wanted’ – 881,000
4) Jason Aldean, ‘Take a Little Ride’ – 766,000
5) Carrie Underwood, ‘Blown Away’ – 735,000
6) Kenny Chesney, ‘Come Over’ – 539,000
7) Luke Bryan, ‘Drunk on You’ – 499,000
8) Lee Brice, ‘Hard to Love’ – 469,000
9) Tim McGraw, ‘Truck Yeah’ – 458,000
10) Florida Georgia Line, ‘Cruise’ – 450,000
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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