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  • Jan 5, 2011
    Country album sales totalled 43.7 million in 2010, a 5% drop from 2009, Nielsen SoundScan announces. That compares to a 12.7% drop for the music industry overall. The year's best-selling country album: Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now"
    Jan 4, 2012
    Nielsen SoundScan announces 42.9 million country albums were sold in 2011, a 1.8% decline from 2010. The year's best-selling country release: Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party," which sold 1.6 million
    Jan 3, 2013
    Nielsen SoundScan reports 44.7 million country albums were sold in 2012, a 4.1% increase from 2011. Taylor Swift's "Red" was the best-selling country album after moving 3.1 million units, while the 3-million-selling "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" was the #1 country single
    Jan 2, 2014
    SoundScan reports country sold 39.89 million albums in 2013, a drop of 10.7% from 2012. Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" sold 1.5 million copies to become the genre's best-selling album. The year's top-selling country track was Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise," 4.7 million downloads
    Jan 3, 2018
    Nielsen Music announces Chris Stapleton had the best-selling country album of 2017 with "From A Room: Volume 1," which sold 658,000 copies during the year. Sam Hunt's "Body Like A Back Road" was the most-downloaded country single, at 1.8 million units, and the most-streamed, too

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