Traveller, which is Stapleton’s debut effort, returns to the list after being absent from the chart since September, and initially debuting and peaking at No. 14 in May. (It was released on May 5 through Mercury Records.) It bounds back in at No. 1 with 177,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 5 (up 6,109 percent from about 3,000 units) according to Nielsen Music. Of the new week's total unit sum, 153,000 were pure album sales (up 6,412 percent from 2,000).
Remarkably, Stapleton’s album sold more in this past week than it had in total since its release in May. Up through the week ending Oct. 29, it had sold 96,000 copies, with its largest sales week registered in its debut frame (27,000).
“Tennessee Whiskey” ranks as the second-largest selling digital song of the week (a No. 2 debut on the Digital Songs chart) with 131,000 downloads sold. “Drink You Away” also debuts on the list, starting at No. 6 with 76,000 sold. Traveller’s title track also enters at No. 40 with 25,000. http://www.billboard.com/articles/co...0-albums-chart
Back on the new Billboard 200, the week’s top three albums are all impacted by the CMA Awards. Following Stapleton is the show’s co-host Carrie Underwood, who holds steady at No. 2 with her Storyteller album. The set moved 81,000 units (down 54 percent in its second week) and sold 73,000 albums (down 56 percent).
After Underwood is the surprise new release from Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood, which arrives at No. 3 with 76,000 units (71,000 in sales) from less than two full days of availability. The album was released on Nov. 4 without advance notice, hours before Church opened the CMA Awards.
Just outside the top 10 is Taylor Swift’s 1989, which moves out of the top 10 for the first time in its 54 chart weeks. It slips 7-11 with 30,000 units (down 13 percent). 1989 spent its first 53 weeks on the list within the top 10.
It seemed like bad things kept happening to Carrie with Sam Hunt, Eric Church, and then Chris all being threats from literally out of nowhere.
Those are great numbers though