Lady Antebellum is an American country pop music group formed in Nashville, Tennessee in 2006. The trio is composed of Hillary Scott (lead and background vocals), Charles Kelley (lead and background vocals) and Dave Haywood (background vocals, guitar, piano, mandolin).
Let's take a look at the group's impressive sales:
Lady Antebellum
Released: April 15, 2008
Genre: Country
Length: 42:44
Label: Capitol Nashville
Producer: Victoria Shaw & Paul Worley
Lady Antebellum is the self-titled debut album by the American country music trio Lady Antebellum. It was released on April 15, 2008. Its lead single, "Love Don't Live Here" reached the Top 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts in May 2008. A second single, "Lookin' for a Good Time", was issued later, missing the Top 10 and peaking at number 11. "I Run to You" followed as the third single from the album in January 2009, and became the group's first number-one single on the Hot Country Songs!
The album debuted at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, the first debut by a country group to achieve this. It also reached number 4 on the overall Billboard Top 200 charts.
ALBUM SALES: 2,000,000
TRACKS SALES: 2,800,000
TOTAL RECORDS SOLD: 4,800,000+
Need You Now
Released: January 26, 2010
Recorded: 2009
Genre: Country, country pop, soft rock
Length: 44:10
Label: Capitol Nashville
Producer: Paul Worley
Need You Now is the second studio album by the American country music group Lady Antebellum. The album was released on January 26, 2010, via Capitol Nashville. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 481,000 copies sold in its first week and of course it topped the Country Albums chart too. It has been certified 3x platinum by the RIAA and is approaching the 4M copies sold mark.
On February 13, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album and was nominated for Album of the Year, whereas the single "Need You Now" won four awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
"Need You Now", the first single, debuted at number 50 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in August 2009. For the week of November 28, it became their second Number One single on the Hot Country Songs chart in the United States, as issued by Billboard. It went to become a crossover smash, peaking on top of the Adult Contemporary and Adult Pop Songs chart, as well as reaching the #2 position on Pop Songs and on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It's the best selling digital country song of all time with sales exceeding 5.8M copies.
"American Honey", the second single, became their third consecutive #1 single, as well as third Top 30 single on the Billboard Hot 100.
"Our Kind of Love" was released as a promotional single on January 10, 2010, and received its official release as the set's third single in late May. It reached the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs, becoming the group's 4th #1 single on the chart.
"Hello World", the album's fourth single, was released to radio on October 4, 2010 and reached the Top 10 on Hot Country Songs peaking at #6.
ALBUM SALES: 3,900,000
TRACKS SALES: 7,250,000
TOTAL RECORDS SOLD: 11,150,000+
Own the Night
Released: September 13, 2011
Recorded: 2011
Genre: Country-Pop
Length: 47:44
Label: Capitol Nashville
Producer: Paul Worley
Own the Night is the third studio album by the American country music trio Lady Antebellum. It topped the Billboard 200, selling more than 347,000 copies in its first week, making it their second number-one album in the United States and one of the most successful country albums of 2011. It also topped the Billboard Top Country Albums as well as the Canadian Albums Chart, selling more than 21,000 copies in its first week in Canada alone.The album won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.
The album has spawned four singles to date: "Just a Kiss" "We Owned the Night" "Dancin' Away with My Heart" and "Wanted You More". "Just a Kiss" was released for digital download on May 2, 2011. It was a commercial and critical success, debuting and peaking at number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it their highest debut on the chart. It also topped the Billboard Hot Country Songs, making it their fifth number-one single on the chart. "We Owned the Night" was released for digital download on August 15, 2011 and was also a commercial success, peaking at the top of the Hot Country Songs chart. Prior to the album's release, "Dancin' Away with My Heart" and "Wanted You More" served as promotional singles and peaked at numbers 50 and 34 on the Hot 100 each. The first reached the #2 position on Hot Country Songs, while the latter is currently climbing the top 30 of the same chart,
ALBUM SALES: 1,670,000
TRACKS SALES: 3,810,000
TOTAL RECORDS SOLD (so far): 5,480,000+
OVERALL RECORDS SOLD IN THE USA: 22,000,000+
Lady Antebellum was awarded Top New Duo or Group by the Academy of Country Music and New Artist of the Year by the Country Music Association in 2008. They were nominated for two Grammy Awards at the 51st Grammy Awards; and two more at the 52nd Grammy Awards. Of these nominations, they took home the award for Best Country Performance by Duo or Group with Vocals for "I Run to You".
On April 18, 2010, the group was awarded Top Vocal Group, Song of the Year ("Need You Now"), and Single of the Year ("Need You Now") at the 44th ACM Awards. The group won five awards at the 53rd Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year and Record of the Year for "Need You Now". Their third studio album 'Own The Night' won the "Best Country Album" award at the 54th Grammy Awards.