Top 5 Country Singles
- Taylor Swift - "Sparks Fly" from Speak Now
- Blake Shelton - "God Gave Me You" from Red River Blue
- Brantley Gilbert - "Country Must Be Country Wide" from Halfway to Heaven
- Eli Young Band - "Crazy Girl" from Crazy Girl
- Lady Antebellum - "We Owned the Night" from Own the Night
Big Chart Movers
- #53 (chart re-entry) Blake Shelton - "Footloose" from Footloose Soundtrack
- #57-#46 Rodney Atkins - "He's Mine" from Take a Back Road
- #58-#52 Trace Adkins - "Million Dollar View" from Proud to Be Here
Hot New Country Songs
- #35 - Faith Hill - "Come Home"
- #60 - Sugarland featuring Matt Nathanson - "Run"
Comments
Call it the CMA boost. Many of the performers at the 2011 CMA Awards found themselves climbing up the charts. Lady Antebellum, Sugarland, and Blake Shelton, who each performed their songs on the broadcast, showed gains this week. In addition to his blockbuster single "God Gave Me You, Shelton opened the show with "Footloose" and saw his Kenny Loggins remake reenter the charts at #53. Meanwhile, Entertainer of the Year Taylor Swift shot from #3 to #1 with her song "Sparks Fly" from Speak Now.
Top 5 Country Albums
- Miranda Lambert - Four the Record
- Scott McCreery - Clear as Day
- Lady Antebellum - Own the Night
- Jason Aldean - My Kinda Party
- Toby Keith - Clancy's Tavern
Hot New Country Albums
- #19 Joe Nichols - It's All Good
- #32 Rascal Flatts - The Best of Rascal Flatts Live
- #39 Josh Gracin - Redemption
- #40 George Strait - Icon 2: George Strait
Comments
Miranda Lambert's Four the Record maintains its second week at #1 on the country music album charts. Scott McCreery does the same, keeping his post at #2. After his win for Best Country Album at the 2011 CMA Awards, Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party moves up a notch from #4 to #5. And Toby Keith's Clancy's Tavern loses some of the wind in its sails, moving from #3 to #5. Meanwhile, Luke Bryan's Tailgates and Tanlines keeps steady at #6 -- for its 14th week on the charts. And the hot "new" country albums look awfully familiar -- notably, greatest htis sets by Rascall Flatts and George Strait which each showed up in the top 50.
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Country's Highest Ranking Radio Songs
22. Lady Antebellum - "Just a Kiss" from Own the Night
24. Taylor Swift - "Sparks Fly" from Speak Now
27. Brantley Gilbert - "Country Must Be Country Wide" from Halfway to Heaven
25. Eli Young Band - "Crazy Girl" from Crazy Girl
31. Blake Shelton - "God Gave Me You" from Red River Blue
Big Radio Chart Movers
- #27-#35 Eli Young Band - "Crazy Girl" from Crazy Girl
Hot New Radio Songs
- #66 Martina McBride - "I'm Gonna Love You Through It" from Eleven
Comments
Blake Shelton falls one notch from #30 to #31 with "God Gave Me You" from Red River Blue while Lady Antebellum nudges up from #35 to #33 with "We Owned the Night" from Own the Night. Then Jason Aldean's "Tattoos on This Town" from My Kinda Party jumps up from #38 to #34. Miranda Lambert's "Baggage Claim" seems to be flagging, dropping from #34 to #36. But it's not as bad as the Eli Young's Band's fall-off from "Crazy Girl" which plummeted from #27 to #35 for radio listeners.
