List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2018

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2018, 19 different albums topped the chart, based on multi-metric consumption, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.

Kacey Musgraves topped the chart with the critically acclaimed[1] Golden Hour.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 3, Luke Bryan was at number one with the album What Makes You Country, its second week in the top spot.[2] The following week it was displaced by The Anthology Part I: The First Five Years by Garth Brooks, in an issue which was dated January 6 after Billboard changed its issue dating system. One week after that, Kane Brown returned to number one with his eponymous debut album,[3] which had spent a single week in the top spot in 2016 and a second in 2017.[4][5] The album's total of 10 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart was the second highest achieved in 2018, and its second spell at number one, which lasted for four weeks, tied for the year's longest unbroken run in the top spot. Later in the year Brown's second album Experiment spent a single week at number one, making him the only act with more than one chart-topper in 2018. The band Lanco matched the feat which Brown had achieved in 2016 by topping the chart with its debut album, spending a single week at number one in January with Hallelujah Nights.[6]

In June, the album This One's for You by Luke Combs returned to number one; it had spent four weeks in the top spot following its original release the previous summer,[7][8][9] but went back to the peak position a year later following the release of a deluxe edition with additional tracks.[10] The album made intermittent returns to number one throughout the remainder of the year, adding a further 17 weeks to its total. Its popularity would continue for much of 2019, and it would eventually achieve a total of 50 weeks atop the listing, tying the record set by Shania Twain's album Come on Over for the highest total number of weeks at number one on the Top Country Albums chart.[11] Three of 2018's Top Country Albums number ones also topped the all-genre Billboard 200 chart: Jason Aldean's Rearview Town, Carrie Underwood's Cry Pretty, and Kane Brown's Experiment.[12][13][14]

Chart history

Luke Combs's 2017 album This One's for You returned to number one after the release of a deluxe edition. Its renewed success would lead to it tying the record for the most weeks at number one by an album.
Kane Brown topped the chart with his self-titled debut album and returned to number one later in the year with Experiment.
Ticket to L.A. was the first number one for Brett Young.
Carrie Underwood reached number one with Cry Pretty.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 3 What Makes You Country Luke Bryan [2]
January 6 The Anthology Part I: The First Five Years Garth Brooks [15]
January 13 Kane Brown Kane Brown [16]
January 20 [17]
January 27 [18]
February 3 Hallelujah Nights Lanco [19]
February 10 From A Room: Volume 2 Chris Stapleton [20]
February 17 [21]
February 24 [22]
March 3 Kane Brown Kane Brown [23]
March 10 [24]
March 17 [25]
March 24 [26]
March 31 Seasons Change Scotty McCreery [27]
April 7 Kane Brown Kane Brown [28]
April 14 Golden Hour Kacey Musgraves [29]
April 21 Kane Brown Kane Brown [30]
April 28 Rearview Town Jason Aldean [31]
May 5 [32]
May 12 Graffiti U Keith Urban [33]
May 19 Rearview Town Jason Aldean [34]
May 26 [35]
June 2 [36]
June 9 Kane Brown Kane Brown [37]
June 16 This One's for You Luke Combs [38]
June 23 The Mountain Dierks Bentley [39]
June 30 Rearview Town Jason Aldean [40]
July 7 Dan + Shay Dan + Shay [41]
July 14 This One's for You Luke Combs [42]
July 21 [43]
July 28 [44]
August 4 [45]
August 11 Songs for the Saints Kenny Chesney [46]
August 18 This One's for You Luke Combs [47]
August 25 [48]
September 1 All of It Cole Swindell [49]
September 8 This One's for You Luke Combs [50]
September 15 [51]
September 22 [52]
September 29 Cry Pretty Carrie Underwood [53]
October 6 [54]
October 13 This One's for You Luke Combs [55]
October 20 Desperate Man Eric Church [56]
October 27 [57]
November 3 This One's for You Luke Combs [58]
November 10 [59]
November 17 Interstate Gospel Pistol Annies [60]
November 24 Experiment Kane Brown [61]
December 1 This One's for You Luke Combs [62]
December 8 [63]
December 15 [64]
December 22 Ticket to L.A. Brett Young [65]
December 29 This One's for You Luke Combs [66]

See also

References

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