Luke Bryan Debuts with Third Highest Selling Album of the Year

Luke Bryan’s Crash My Party blew the competition out of the water and exceeded expectations this week when his latest album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

Crash My Party is the biggest first-week sales record for a male country artist in nearly nine years, selling 528,000 copies last week.  The last time a male country artist had sales this high was when Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying  sold 766,000 copies in its first week in Nov. 2004.

According to Billboard, Bryan’s sales make Crash My Party the third-highest album debut of the year, after Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience and Jay-Z’s Magna Carta – Holy Grail.

Crash My Party is Bryan’s second No.1 album released this year; his compilation album Spring Break…Here to Party also topped charts back in March.  Over 1.2 million downloads of the album’s lead single “Crash My Party” have already been sold.