Country Music Charts, Week Ending 4/5/08
Monday, April 7th, 2008
Alan Jackson’s temporary reign at the top of both the Country Music Singles and Country Music Album charts has come to an end on both fronts. Trace Adkins, the Celebrity Apprentice runner up managed to sneak into the top spot on the Country Music Singles Charts with “You’re Gonna Miss This”. Alan Jackson was also passed yet again by that unstoppable teenager Taylor Swift on the Country Music Album Charts who took over the number one spot yet again. Her latest single “Picture to Burn” is also climbing the Country Music Singles charts, but she’s going to have to overcome some stiff competition in George Strait to make it to the top with that one.
To see all of the Top Ten Country Music Singles and Top Ten Country Music Albums, keep reading after the jump.
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Well, despite what Donald Trump had to say on the finale of Celebrity Apprentice, Trace Adkins does NOT have the number one single on the country charts with “You’re Gonna Miss This”. However, he is in second place, but he just couldn’t knock off Alan Jackson this week. Both of them better watch their backs, though, because teen phenom Taylor Swift is heating up the charts with “Picture to Burn”. In fact, she’s so hot, she took back over the top spot on the albums charts and Alan Jackson fell into second.
Alan Jackson may be a Small Town Southern Man, but he’s living the big life this week. Jackson not only has the number one album in country music, he also holds down the top spot on the country music singles charts, passing up Carrie Underwood. There are lots of great artists on his tail though, including George Strait and Trace Adkins, so he’d better be ready to give up the title. As for the album side of things, he will most likely stay at the top for awhile longer since there hasn’t been any huge new releases in a long time (besides his, of course).
Finally! We’re getting some movement in the country music charts this week. We’ve got some new singles entering the top ten including George Strait with “I Saw God Today”. Carrie Underwood stayed at the top of the singles charts this week with her 6th number one single “All American Girl”. Alan Jackson is having a stellar week with his “Small Town Southern Man” hitting number two and his brand new album “Good Time” debuting in the number one spot on the albums chart. Dolly Parton with her “Backwoods Barbie” also managed to crack the top ten albums this week.
It sure is a good week to be Chris Cagle. Not only did his newest hit “What Kinda Gone” enter the top ten country music singles for the first time, he was able to knock Taylor Swift out of the top spot on the country music albums charts with his new release “My Life’s Been a Country Song”. It’s good to see him come back after such a rough time with his vocal cord problems and recover with great new music.
It looks like we’ve got a new number one this week. Well, at least on the singles side of things. Rodney Atkins took the top spot away from his touring partner Brad Paisley this week with his anthem to all fathers with little girls out there “Cleaning This Gun”. Brad’s “Letter to Me” fell to third behind Gary Allan and “Watching Airplanes”.
Y - A - W - N………Oh, sorry about that. I was just sitting here posting this week’s top ten country music singles and top ten country music albums when I about fell asleep from the sheer boredom of no change in either chart this week. Okay, so that is a bit of an exaggeration because a couple of the top ten singles switched spots, and Carrie Underwood’s debut album “Some Hearts” reappeared at number 8 on the album charts, but really is that a surprise? After Carrie’s win at the Grammys and her skimpy outfit during her “Before He Cheats” performance, you knew people would go out to buy the album that song was on.
The tops of both the country music single and country music album charts look pretty much like they did last week. Brad Paisley was able to stay at the top of the singles chart with his song “Letter to Me” and Taylor Swift’s self-titled debut album just won’t be knocked off of its perch at number one that she’s held for the past few weeks.
Brad Paisley hangs strong this week in the number one position on the Top Ten Country Music Singles chart with his latest hit “Letter to Me”. There wasn’t much movement at all on the singles charts, except Sugarland and their song “Stay” continued to plummet down the charts landing at number ten this week.
While the albums side of the country music charts didn’t change much this week, the top songs on the country music singles charts got a good shaking up. Taylor Swift was able to hang on to the top of the albums charts and really there wasn’t much movement beyond the addition of Anne Murray’s duets album entering the top ten this week.
It was yet another doubly great week for Taylor Swift as she topped both the singles charts with “Our Song” and the albums charts with her self titled debut that has been on the charts for more than a year. What more could an 18 year old girl ask for?
