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Alabama (above) posts its best rank on Top Country Albums and its biggest sales week in seven years as Alabama & Friends bows at No. 2 with 32,000 copies sold, [...]

Country rap/Southern rock duo the Lacs (Clay Sharpe and Brian King) claim their career-best rank and biggest sales week yet on Top Country Albums as Keep It Redneck opens as [...]

Luke Bryan (above) scores his fifth No. 1 and 12th top 10 on Hot Country Songs as 'That's My Kind of Night' vaults 35-1 in its third chart week. The [...]

Brett Eldredge (above) posts the best start by a new male artist on Top Country Albums in nearly a year, as Bring You Back enters at No. 2 with 21,000 [...]

Country Music Hall of Fame honoree Vince Gill and steel guitarist Paul Franklin bow at No. 4 on Top Country Albums with Bakersfield, a collaborative tribute honoring the city's two [...]

A familiar name crowns Heritage Rock, as a refreshed Stone Temple Pilots (above) fly 3-1 with 'Out of Time' (up 15% in spins at the format, according to Nielsen BDS). [...]

Florida Georgia Line (above) matches the all-time record for the most weeks at No. 1 on Hot Country Songs, as 'Cruise' notches a 21st cumulative week at the summit, joining [...]

Florida Georgia Line adds a second title to the Hot Country Songs top 10 as current country radio single 'Round Here' advances 13-8. Meanwhile, the duo leads the list for [...]

Kip Moore (above) claims his third top 10 on Hot Country Songs with 'Hey Pretty Girl,' which rises 11-9. He previously competed in the upper tier with 'Beer Money,' which [...]

With his second-biggest Nielsen SoundScan week (40,000 sold), Hunter Hayes (above) logs the slowest climb to No. 1 on Top Country Albums during the 22-year-old SoundScan era, as his self-titled [...]

Florida Georgia Line (above) scores its first leader on Top Country Albums, as Here's to the Good Times rises from its previous No. 3 peak to NO. 1 in its [...]

LeAnn Rimes opens at No. 9 with Hot Shot Debut honors on Top Country Albums (No. 36 on the Billboard 200) as Spitfire, her final album on Curb Records, starts [...]

Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift achieve their 26th and seventh Country Airplay No. 1s, respectively, as 'Highway Don't Care' steps 2-1 with the biggest weekly audience sum since the Nielsen [...]

Darius Rucker (above) posts his third consecutive leader--and second-best weekly sales sum--on Top Country Albums as True Believers debuts at No. 1 with 83,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Rucker's [...]

With a 12th cumulative week at No. 1, rookie twosome Florida Georgia Line's 'Cruise' posts the most chart-topping weeks for a track by a duo in the 69-year history of [...]

Nearly doubling the trio's previous best Nielsen Soundscan weekly sum, Pistol Annies' sophomore set, Annie Up, bows at No. 2 on Top Country Albums with 83,000 sold. The threesome--Miranda Lambert, [...]

Florida Georgia Line (above) garners the highest weekly audience since Country Airplay converted from a plays-based chart to an audience-based ranking in January 2005. The duo's 'Get Your Shine On' [...]

Florida Georgia Line is the first act to simultaneously dominate Hot Country Songs and the Nielsen BDS-fueled Country Airplay tally with separate titles since the former chart adopted a multitiered [...]

With airplay, sales and streaming activity following his April 26 death, George Jones claims his best rank on Hot Country Songs in 23 years as 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' [...]

From his first chart entry with "Why Baby Why" in October 1955 until his final appearance on Billboard's Hot Country Songs as a featured artist on Aaron Lewis' "Country Boy" [...]

The Casey Donahew Band (above) leads a string of top 20 debuts on Top Country Albums, none of which is driven by mainstream, big-city country radio airplay. A staple on [...]

Narrowly missing his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200, Brad Paisley collects his seventh leader on Top Country Albums (No. 2 on the big chart) with Wheelhouse, which sells [...]

Lady Antebellum completes its fastest trip to the Country Airplay summit as 'Downtown' rises 2-1 in its 12th week. The trio previously reached No. 1 in as quickly as 14 [...]

With its fattest-ever weekly sum, the Band Perry (above) starts at No. 1 on Top Country Albums with sophomore set Pioneer. It opens with 129,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. [...]

Mumford & Sons (above) add another milestone to their crossover success, as 'I Will Wait' rises 2-1 on Adult Top 40, marking their first leader at the format. The song [...]

Darius Rucker (above) ends a two-year absence atop Hot Country Songs with 'Wagon Wheel,' which steps 2-1 in its 12th chart week to become the artist's sixth leader on that [...]

'When I was Your Man' by Bruno Mars rises 2-1 on the Mainstream Top 40 radio airplay chart. The song marks Mars' sixth No. 1, pushing him past Nelly and [...]

Kacey Musgraves (above) becomes the first solo female act in five years to open at No. I with a rookie album on Top Country Albums-the seventh in the 22-year--old Nielsen [...]

The Band Perry (pictured) draws Hot Shot Debut applause at No. 23 on Hot Country Songs with "Done," the second single from Pioneer, the sibling trio's sophomore album, due April [...]

'It's Time' by Imagine Dragons (above) reaches the Mainstream Top 40 top 10 in its 22nd week (11-10), completing the longest trip to the top tier by a group in [...]

As Blake Shelton logs a third straight week at No. 1 with 'Sure Be Cool If You Did' on Hot Country Songs, wife Miranda Lambert vaults 7-2 with 'Mama's Broken [...]

Opening with Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 4, Rodney Crowell reteams with his old boss Emmylou Harris on Old Yellow Moon, lifting him to a career-high perch on Top [...]

As Blake Shelton prepares for the March 26 release of his 10th studio album, Based on a True Story. the set's lead single 'Sure Be Cool If You Did' becomes [...]

Tim McGraw celebrates his 25th Country Airplay No. 1, as 'One of Those Nights' rises 2-1. Dating to the chart's Jan. 20, 1990, inception, McGraw trails only Alan Jackson and [...]

Eclectic country/rock band Connor Christian & Southern Gothic garners its first national chart ink with New Hometown, which draws double Hot Shot Debut applause, opening at No. 1 on Heatseekers [...]

With 107,000 sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, veteran artist Tim McGraw claims his 14th leader on Top Country Albums with Two Lanes of Freedom, his first for Big Machine. It [...]

Three weeks after reaching the summit of Hot Country Songs, "Better Dig Two" by the Band Perry (above) becomes the act's third No. 1 on the Nielsen BDS-fueled Country Airplay [...]

Kenny Chesney ropes the Hot Shot Debut at No. 35 on Hot Country Songs with 'Pirate Flag,' the lead track from his upcoming Life on a Rock album, due April [...]

Lady Antebelium claims its highest debut on Country Airplay with 'Downtown,' starting at No. 25 with spins at 100 of the 125 stations monitored for the chart. That surpasses the [...]

Blake Shelton welcomed the new year by releasing a brand-new song on Jan. 1, 'Sure Be Cool If You Did,' which bows at No. 45 on Hot Country Songs and [...]

With Greatest Gainer honors for the biggest digital sales spike on Hot Country Songs, Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' returns to No. 1 for a 10th [...]

With an increase of 358 spins, Kenny Chesney's 'She's Got It All' rises 2-1 on Billboard's Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Although Chesney had chart runs with eight prior titles, […]

With the first turnover atop Hot Country Songs since the chart relaunched with revised ranking methods in October, Florida Georgia Line's 'Cruise' replaces Taylor Swift's 'We Are Never Ever Getting [...]

Two months after the Hot Country Songs ranking method shifted from core country radio audience to a digital, streaming and expanded radio hybrid, Taylor Swift's ninth week atop the chart [...]

After a head-turning performance of Miranda Lambert's 'Over You' on the Nov. 19 episode of NBC's 'The Voice,' contestant Cassadee Pope snares the Hot Shot Debut at No. 3 on [...]

Staind frontman Aaron Lewis posts his second top 10 start on Top Country Albums with The Road, which checks in with Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 7 (10,000 sold, [...]

The Band Perry makes strides with double Greatest Gainer nods on Hot Country Songs, as 'Better Dig Two' posts the biggest overall spikes in airplay and streaming, bulleting at No. [...]

Sales gains on Top Country Albums driven by the 46th annual Country Music Assn. Awards (Nov. 1 on ABC) are led by album of the year winner Eric Church's Chief, [...]

Christmas-themed standouts on Top Country Albums are led by Lady Antebellum's Hot Shot Debut at No. 3 with On This Winter's Night, which arrives with 25,000 sold, according to Nielsen [...]

Jason Aldean's Night Train makes a splashy debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums, opening with 409,000 copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The artist's [...]