Congratulations to Carrie Underwood! The American Idol season 4 winner earned a 5th #1 album on the Billboard Country Albums chart with her her Greatest Hits: Decade #1 album. The set also debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200 and sold 94,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen Soundscan.
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The 25 song collection is the best selling debut for a greatest hits record in ANY genre in more than six years!
Check out the official press release below for more details and a few complimentary remarks from Sony Music Nashville chairman, Gary Overton:
Carrie Underwood Is 5 for 5 as She Debuts at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums Chart with Greatest Hits: Decade #1!
Underwood’s Fifth Album Becomes Her Fifth #1 Country Album Debut!
Featuring the GRAMMY®-Nominated “Something in the Water,” the Album Marks the Best-Selling Debut for a Hits Collection in Any Genre in More than Six Years
Superstar Carrie Underwood makes it five for five this week as her newly released Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (19 Recordings/Arista Nashville) becomes her fifth consecutive album to debut at #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums sales chart. The 25-song collection – which includes her new single, the GRAMMY®-nominated smash, “Something in the Water” – tops the chart with first-week sales of 94,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan, delivering the best-selling debut for a hits collection by an artist in any genre of music in more than six years.
Greatest Hits: Decade #1 also powers its way into the Top 5 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, debuting at #4, with the chart’s sales and streaming methodology registering an equivalent of 103,000 albums.
Remarkably, not since November of 2005, when Underwood emerged on the scene with her now-7x-Platinum debut album, Some Hearts, has any female artist debuted with as high an opening-week sales tally for a hits package.
“One of the most spectacular elements of Carrie Underwood’s career continues to be the sheer depth and breadth of her music, whatever the subject matter, from the most nuanced performances to songs that just blow the roof off,” remarked Sony Music Nashville Chairman & CEO Gary Overton. “With her Greatest Hits package debuting at #1, and ‘Something in the Water’ already a massive hit, it’s an incredible testament to how profoundly Carrie’s songs have connected with fans over the past 10 years, as well as the awesome promise of the decades of music still to come.”
Kicked off by the record-setting success of the Gold-certified Top-5-and-climbing first single, “Something in the Water” (penned by Underwood, Chris DeStefano, and Brett James), Greatest Hits: Decade #1 also includes the new song “Little Toy Guns” (written by Underwood, Chris DeStefano, and Hillary Lindsey) and four songs in never-before-released versions, as well as all 18 of Underwood’s #1 hits.
