Country Albums Make Up Half of Billboard 200 Top 10, Led by Zach Bryan
For the first time in over 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.
Zach Bryan’s The Great American Bar Scene leads the country party at No. 2 on the July 20-dated Billboard 200, followed by Morgan Wallen’s One Thing at a Time (No. 3) and Dangerous: The Double Album (No. 6), Shaboozey’s Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going (No. 8) and Bryan’s self-titled album (No. 10).
Country albums are defined as those that have appeared on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart. The list began in 1964.
In the modern era – since the Billboard 200 chart began using electronically monitored tracking information from Luminate (then-SoundScan) on the May 25, 1991-dated chart – there have been only six instances where at least half of the top 10 were country titles.
Here’s a look at each of those weeks and the country sets inside 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, Isn’t Where I’m Going
No. 10, Zach Bryan, Zach 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, Gettin’ Old
No. 9, Zach Bryan, American Heartbreak
No. 10, Bailey Zimmerman, Religiously. The Album.
Oct. 5, 2013:
No. 2, Justin Moore, Off the Beaten Path
No. 3, Chris Young, A.M.
No. 6, Luke Bryan, Crash My Party
No. 8, Keith Urban, Fuse
No. 10, Billy Currington, We Are Tonight
Oct. 30, 2010:
No. 2, Darius Rucker, Charleston, SC 1966
No. 4, The Band Perry, The Band Perry
No. 6, Kenny Chesney, Hemmingway’s Whiskey
No. 8, Zac Brown Band, You Get What You Give
No. 9, Toby Keith, Bullets in the Gun
Nov. 17, 2007:
No. 1, Eagles, Long Road Out of Eden
No. 3, Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride
No. 5, Josh Turner, Everything Is Fine
No. 6, Robert Plant / Alison Krauss, Raising Sand
No. 10, Rascal Flatts, Still Feels Good
Jan. 23, 1993:
No. 2, Garth Brooks, The Chase
No. 3, Billy Ray Cyrus, Some Gave All
No. 8, Reba McEntire, It’s Your Call
No. 9, George Strait, Pure Country (Soundtrack)
No. 10, Brooks & Dunn, Brand New Man
Currently, the Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units, compiled by Luminate. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. From May 25, 1991 – Dec. 6, 2014, traditional album sales, as electronically monitored and tabulated by Luminate, were the sole measurement to rank albums on the chart. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram
