18-year old country superstar Taylor Swift enjoys an impressive debut on this week’s album chart with her sophomore release, Fearless. Nearly 600,000 folks bought or downloaded Swift’s album, making it the biggest selling first week for a country album since The Eagles’ Wal-Mart exclusive last year, which scanned over 700,000 units in its’ first week. Swift was not only on last week’s CMA ceremony (after which just about every artist to perform sees an increase in scans this week), but she is the rare country artist to get love from MTV, a platform which certainly influenced a lot of folks who may not necessarily count country as their favorite genre.
The remainder of the Top 20 is filled with debuts, as the top six albums this week all scan over 100,000 units (indicating that the holiday season is right around the corner). American Idol runner up David Archuleta lands at #2 with his self titled debut, the latest edition of Now That’s What I Call Music! follows behind at #3, T-Pain enters at #4, a holiday album from Enya pops in at #8, Christina Aguilera’s greatest hits album is new at #9, and Seal’s new covers album pops in at #13.
Here’s what this week’s Top 20 looks like:
01-“Fearless” Taylor Swift
02-“David Archuleta” David Archuleta
(combined age of the Top 2 artists…35)
03-“Now That’s What I Call Music! Vol. 29” Various Artists
04-“Thr33 Ringz” T-Pain
05-“Twlight” Soundtrack
Expect this soundtrack to get a boost when the movie premieres this weekend.
06-“Black Ice” AC/DC
07-“High School Musical: Senior Year” Various Artists
08-“Winter Came” Enya
Already this year’s highest charting holiday album.
09-“Keeps Gettin’ Better: A Decade of Hits” Christina Aguilera
10-“Paper Trail” T.I.
11-“Funhouse” P!nk
12-“Evolver” John Legend
13-“Soul” Seal
14-“Incanto” Andrea Bocelli
15-“Greatest Hits Vol. 1” Rascal Flatts
16-“Take it to the Limit” Hinder
17-“Rock & Roll Jesus” Kid Rock
18-“Lucky Old Sun” Kenny Chesney
19-“Death Magnetic” Metallica
20-“Love on the Inside” SugarLand
Kid Rock, Chesney and SugarLand all get significant boosts from the CMA Awards
