Aldean's Big Bow Gives Distribbery Another Monster, While McCreery, Brandy, Anberlin, Fagen Mark Other Key Debuts

October 17, 2012

Broken Bow’s Country troubadour Jason Aldean is on track to score a ten-gallon debut—and land distributor RED its fourth straight week at #1—with first-week sales somewhere between 385-410k. Along with prior chart dominators Mumford, Aldean’s boffo bow (the biggest of his career) nabs RED the top two earners of the year so far. Taylor Swift's encroaching monster, of course, will make that a short-lived milestone.
In other country news, 19/Mercury Nashville/Interscope artist Scotty McCreery will pull down 35-40k with his holiday offering, Christmas With Scotty McCreery. This well-scrubbed crooner is the first American Idol champ to be born in the ’90s, in case you didn’t feel old enough. And Jamey Johnson will move 25-30k with another Mercury Nashville release, Living for a Song, a set paying tribute to the great Hank Cochran.

R&B siren Brandy looks set to put 65-70k on the board with her new RCA set, Two Eleven.

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I guessed 350-400K. Spot on.

I knew Jason was doing 350K+ but didn't think he would touch 400K+.
I put Brandy at 75K at first, so I wasn't that far off.

Damn Brandy's number ARE WAY better than I thought they would be! Imagine how much she could have sold with promo.

Good #'s but both

AMAZING numbers for Jason.

Good numbers for Brandy as well considering everything.

Jason Take A Little Ride is a great song. I was just listening at Night Train (song) .

Congrats!
Taylorrrrr.

Get it Jason where are the haters now?

Psh, so there is absolutely NO backlash at all for Jason's cheating incident?? ****ing double standards in Country Music

Who the HELL cares?

The music matters, not his personal life.

If it was Carrie or Taylor they would have dragged them like they did LeAnn

It's not like LeAnn was on top of the country world when her cheating scandal happened, though. She was pretty much done anyway and the affair just made it that much worse. I do agree that a woman in her prime would have been more adversely affected for sure. Women in country are given a lot less room to "mess up" compared to the men.

Nice sales for Scotty with a Christmas album in October. The delusional stans (the few who were convinced this album would go platinum) are taking comfort in the numbers being higher than Blake Shelton with his Christmas album.

Aldean

Hoping for Brandy at Top 2

Brandy Hoping for longevity.

Those numbers are fair for Brandy. Human opened with that in December. I think this album will hold up much much better.

Jason Aldean's sales are amazing. I doubt people cared about his cheating.

It depends really. Carrie and Taylor project a good, wholesome image so it would affect them greatly. But Miranda Lambert or Gretchen Wilson probably wouldn't feel the effects that much.