Country music continues to dominate the all-genre album charts.
According to information from Chart Data, four of the top ten spots on this week’s Billboard 200 are country albums, albeit by only 2 artists.
Morgan Wallen’s One Thing At A Time stepped back up to the number 3 slot while his 2021 Dangerous: The Double Album stayed flat at number 8. Zach Bryan’s most recent project The Great American Bar Scene climbed 2 spots to number 5 while his self-titled project from 2023 just made its way back into the top 10.
Billboard 200: #3(+1) @MorganWallen, One Thing At A Time 63,000 (7,230,000 units since release). *peak: #1 for 19 weeks*
— chart data (@chartdata) August 19, 2024
Billboard 200: #5(+2) Zach Bryan, The Great American Bar Scene 48,000 (488,000 units since release). *peak: #2*
— chart data (@chartdata) August 19, 2024
But obviously, there’s a new album on the horizon that will probably be holding that number one slot for quite awhile.
Post Malone released his highly-anticipated debut country album last Friday to much public acclaim and to no one’s surprise, it’s doing extremely well commercially.
Hits Daily Double reports that F-1 Trillion is expected to move between 200-225 thousand total units, consisting of 60 to 70 thousand in album sales and 165 to 185 million streams, which would be more than enough to take the top spot from Taylor Swift (The Tortured Poets Department) which did 85,000 units last week and a staggering 5.3 million since its release.
This would be Post’s first number one album since Hollywood’s Bleeding in 2019.
.@PostMalone's 'F1-Trillion' aiming for #1 debut on the Billboard 200 with 200-225K units first week (via @HITSDD).
It would mark his first #1 album since 2019. pic.twitter.com/UiT3ZtkRvY
— chart data (@chartdata) August 17, 2024
And the best part of all this success? The album is actually country.
Are there a few songs that are straight-line pop country? Of course, it’s still Post Malone after all, but without a doubt this entire project firmly fits in the country music genre, especially the surprise disc two drop (F-1 Trillion: Long Bed) of solo tracks.
Did country music need to be “saved” by a pop star? Absolutely not. Zach Bryan, Luke Combs, and Morgan Wallen have made country an absolute juggernaut once again.
But I do have to say it’s pretty fun being the cool kids on the block.
