Crunching the Numbers

Country music is such a male-dominated industry that there is an entire class of male artists who exist just under the radar, often scoring radio hits but rarely an instant add. They may go gold

Today’s entry looks at how some new artists are faring with their albums. James Otto, Sunset Man Release: April 8, 2008 Sales to Date: 246,000 It’s not his first album, as his 2003 debut set

This edition looks at how the genre’s superstars are doing with their current records. Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride Release: October 23, 2007 Sales to Date: 2,218,000 It’s not easy following up a successful debut album,

At the end of 2006, I of various albums released that year. With sales in the doldrums, it seems a good time to take a look at who’s doing well and who’s struggling. In each

So I’m checking out this week’s from Hits Daily Double, and expecting to see a sales bounce among country artists who performed on the ACM show early in the tracking week. Turns out, that didn’t

Carrie Underwood sold nearly 54,000 copies of her late 2005 release Some Hearts this week, a remarkable sum for an album that’s hardly new. That sales total was good enough to land her at #18

The Five Million Club has a

2006 was a year of surprises on the charts, with some new albums wildly exceeding expectations. Here are some particularly successful projects that weren’t expected to do so well, along with some unexpected misses that