List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2017

Singer Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton had three number ones in 2017.

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2017, 30 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets through the issue dated February 4; after that Billboard introduced a new methodology based on multi-metric consumption, blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums.[1]

In the issue of Billboard dated January 7, Garth Brooks was at number one with the box set The Ultimate Collection, its second week in the top spot.[2] Two weeks later, it was displaced by Chris Stapleton's album Traveller, which returned to number one having already spent 24 weeks atop the chart since its release in 2015;[3][4] the album added five weeks to its total in 2017. In May, Stapleton returned to number one with his next album, From A Room: Volume 1, and in December he achieved his third chart-topper of the year with From A Room: Volume 2. Stapleton's total of 14 weeks in the top spot was the highest of the year, more than three times the length of time that any other act spent at number one, and From A Room: Volume 1 had the year's longest unbroken run at number one, spending five consecutive weeks atop the listing. Garth Brooks also achieved more than one chart-topper during the year, as he returned to number one in December with a second compilation album, The Anthology Part I: The First Five Years.

In June, Luke Combs reached number one with his debut album This One's for You, which had spent four non-consecutive weeks in the top spot by the end of the year. The album would go back to the peak position the following summer after the release of a deluxe edition with additional tracks,[5] and occupy the top spot for much of the next year and a half. 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chart.[6] Twain herself topped the chart in October with Now, her first studio album for 15 years; the singer had withdrawn from the music industry in the intervening years due to health issues.[7] RaeLynn matched Combs's feat by topping the chart with her debut album WildHorse,[8] and Old Dominion,[9] Thomas Rhett.[10] and Jessie James Decker also reached number one for the first time in 2017.[11] Rhett's album Life Changes was one of two albums to top both the Top Country Albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200 listing in 2017, the other being Kenny Chesney's Live in No Shoes Nation.[12][13]

Chart history

Singer Garth Brooks
Two different compilation albums by Garth Brooks topped the chart in 2017.
Singer Alison Krauss
Alison Krauss had her first number one since 2011 with Windy City.
Singer Shania Twain
Shania Twain reached number one with Now, her comeback album after a lengthy hiatus from music.
Singer Luke Bryan
Luke Bryan ended the year at number one.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 7 The Ultimate Collection Garth Brooks [2]
January 14 [14]
January 21 Traveller Chris Stapleton [15]
January 28 [3]
February 4 [16]
February 11 [17]
February 18 The Devil Don't Sleep Brantley Gilbert [18]
February 25 Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope Reba McEntire [19]
March 4 [20]
March 11 Windy City Alison Krauss [21]
March 18 The Breaker Little Big Town [22]
March 25 [23]
April 1 Deep South Josh Turner [24]
April 8 Ripcord Keith Urban [25]
April 15 WildHorse RaeLynn [26]
April 22 The Weight of These Wings Miranda Lambert [27]
April 29 Ripcord Keith Urban [28]
May 6 [29]
May 13 Love and War Brad Paisley [30]
May 20 God's Problem Child Willie Nelson [31]
May 27 From A Room: Volume 1 Chris Stapleton [32]
June 3 Welcome Home Zac Brown Band [33]
June 10 From A Room: Volume 1 Chris Stapleton [34]
June 17 [35]
June 24 This One's for You Luke Combs [36]
July 1 Heart Break Lady Antebellum [37]
July 8 The Nashville Sound Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit [38]
July 15 From A Room: Volume 1 Chris Stapleton [39]
July 22 [40]
July 29 [41]
August 5 [42]
August 12 [43]
August 19 Traveller [44]
August 26 Brett Eldredge Brett Eldredge [45]
September 2 This One's for You Luke Combs [46]
September 9 [47]
September 16 Happy Endings Old Dominion [48]
September 23 This One's for You Luke Combs [49]
September 30 Life Changes Thomas Rhett [50]
October 7 [51]
October 14 [52]
October 21 Now Shania Twain [53]
October 28 Kane Brown Kane Brown [54]
November 4 Southern Girl City Lights Jessie James Decker [55]
November 11 Losing Sleep Chris Young [56]
November 18 Live in No Shoes Nation Kenny Chesney [57]
November 25 Texoma Shore Blake Shelton [58]
December 2 Live in No Shoes Nation Kenny Chesney [59]
December 9 The Rest of Our Life Tim McGraw and Faith Hill [60]
December 16 The Anthology Part I: The First Five Years Garth Brooks [61]
December 23 From A Room: Volume 2 Chris Stapleton [62]
December 30 What Makes You Country Luke Bryan [63]

See also

References

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