For the first time in more than a year, and only the sixth time in the modern era, half of the top 10 albums on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart (dated July 20) are country albums.
By Zac Bryan The Great American Bar Scene leads the country party to No. 2 on the July 20 Billboard 200, followed by Morgan Wallen One thing at a time (No. 3) and Dangerous: The Double Album (No. 6), by Shaboozey Where I've been is not where I'm going (No. 8) and Brian's self-titled album (No. 10).
Country albums are defined as those that have appeared Advertising signThe Chart of Top Country Albums. The list began in 1964.
In the modern era – since the Billboard 200 chart began using electronically tracked tracking information from Luminate (then SoundScan) on the chart dated May 25, 1991 – there have only been six instances where at least half of the top 10 were country acts.
Here's a look at each of those weeks and country in the top 10 on the Billboard 200 —
July 20, 2024:
No. 2, Zach Bryan, The Great American Bar Scene
No. 3, Morgan Wallen, One thing at a time
No. 6, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album
No. 8, Shaboozey, Where I've been is not where I'm going
No. 10, Zach Bryan, Zac Bryan
June 10, 2023:
No. 2, Morgan Wallen, One thing at a time
No. 5, Morgan Wallen, Dangerous: The Double Album
No. 7, Luke Combs, I'm getting old
No. 9, Zach Bryan, American Heart Break
No. 10, Bailey Zimmerman, Religious. The album.
October 5, 2013:
No. 2, Justin Moore, Out of the ordinary
No. 3, Chris Young, I AM
No. 6, Luke Bryan, Crash My Party
No. 8, Keith Urban, Fuse
No. 10, Billy Currington, We are tonight
October 30, 2010:
No. 2, Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966
No. 4, The Band Perry, The Band Perry
No. 6, Kenny Chesney, Hemmingway whiskey
No. 8, Zac Brown Band, You get what you give
No. 9, Toby Keith, Bullets in the gun
November 17, 2007:
No. 1, Eagles, A long way out of Eden
No. 3, Carrie Underwood, Carnival Walk
No. 5, Josh Turner, Everything's fine
No. 6, Robert Plant / Alison Krauss, Sand lifting
No. 10, Rascal Flatts, He still feels good
January 23, 1993:
No. 2, Garth Brooks, The chase
No. 3, Billy Ray Cyrus, Some gave it their all
No. 8, Reba McEntire, It's your call
No. 9, George Strait, Clean Country (Soundtrack)
No. 10, Brooks & Dunn, Brand new man
The Billboard 200 chart currently ranks the most popular albums of the week in the US based on polymetric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units include album sales, track album equivalents (TEA) and streaming album equivalents (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale or 10 individual tracks sold from an album or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 official paid/subscription audio and video streams generated from songs from an album. From May 25, 1991 to December 6, 2014, traditional album sales, as tracked electronically and ranked by Luminate, was the sole metric for ranking albums on the chart. For all new charts, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram
