And a Grammy... good week.
Hats off (no pun intended for hat act lovers) to Lady Antebellum’s Charles, Dave and Hillary on topping the overall and country album sales charts with 481,000 debut-week sales for the group’s Need You Now. The Nielsen SoundScan total is the biggest debut by a country artist since Taylor Swift’s Fearless bowed with 592,000 units in November 2008.
A large percentage is suspected to attributed to massive downloads of the smash multi week title track. Combined single downloads are figured into the tally. Christmas iTunes cards must’ve helped here. Record breaking January sales.
Dave Tweeted -”We’re Absolutely stunned!”
The band used their weekly webisode to thank the fans — see the brilliant thank you below…
February 25th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
I have no problem with Taylor the person, I think she seems like a nice girl, I give her props for writing her own songs. But I really don’t like her voice or her lyrics. To see her sing live is a train wreck. I can see why younger girls like her, but to someone who is past the whole teenage love, boy broke my heart era, i just can’t connect to her. And I don’t think there is anything country about her. Most people who answered this question are never in this section any other time, and that should say something.