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List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2016

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2016, 22 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets.[1]

Singers Joey + Rory
Hymns That Are Important to Us by Joey + Rory reached number one in the issue of Billboard dated March 5, 2016. Joey Feek (left) died on March 4.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, Chris Stapleton was at number one with Traveller, its fifth week in the top spot.[2] The album held the top spot for the first nine weeks of 2016 and made intermittent returns to the top spot for the remainder of the year, spending a total of 20 weeks atop the chart during the twelve months. No other act spent more than four weeks at number one in 2016. Traveller's first run of the year in the top spot was ended by Joey + Rory's first chart-topping album Hymns That Are Important to Us,[3] which reached number one in the issue of Billboard dated March 5; Joey Feek, the female half of the husband-and-wife duo, died on March 4 at the age of 40.[4]

Several other acts topped the chart for the first time in 2016, beginning with Sturgill Simpson,[5] who spent a single week at number one in May with A Sailor's Guide to Earth, which would go on to win the award for Best Country Album.[6] Maren Morris[7] and Kane Brown[8] both topped the chart with their respective debut albums Hero and Kane Brown, as did Steven Tyler, who released his first solo album We're All Somebody from Somewhere after more than 40 years as the lead singer of the hard rock band Aerosmith and took it to the top of the country albums listing.[9][10] Jon Pardi also reached number one for the first time.[11] Garth Brooks was the only artist to top the chart with two different albums during the year, both of which reached the top spot in December. He spent a single week at number one in the issue of Billboard dated December 3 with Christmas Together, a collaboration with his wife Trisha Yearwood,[12] and four weeks later returned to the top of the chart with the compilation album The Ultimate Collection. One album reached number one on both the Top Country Albums chart and the all-genre Billboard 200 in 2016: Jason Aldean held the top spot on both listings in the issue of Billboard dated October 1 with They Don't Know.[13][14]

Chart history

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Sturgill Simpson topped the chart for the first time with A Sailor's Guide to Earth.
 
Steven Tyler, lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith, reached number one with his solo album We're All Somebody from Somewhere.
 
Chris Stapleton spent the most weeks at number one in 2016.
 
Kane Brown topped the chart with his self-titled debut album.
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 2 Traveller Chris Stapleton [2]
January 9 [15]
January 16 [16]
January 23 [17]
January 30 [18]
February 6 [19]
February 13 [20]
February 20 [21]
February 27 [22]
March 5 Hymns That Are Important to Us Joey + Rory [23]
March 12 Traveller Chris Stapleton [24]
March 19 [25]
March 26 Hymns That Are Important to Us Joey + Rory [26]
April 2 [27]
April 9 [28]
April 16 Traveller Chris Stapleton [29]
April 23 [30]
April 30 [31]
May 7 A Sailor's Guide to Earth Sturgill Simpson [32]
May 14 Traveller Chris Stapleton [33]
May 21 [34]
May 28 Ripcord Keith Urban [35]
June 4 [36]
June 11 If I'm Honest Blake Shelton [37]
June 18 Black Dierks Bentley [38]
June 25 Hero Maren Morris [39]
July 2 If I'm Honest Blake Shelton [40]
July 9 California Sunrise Jon Pardi [41]
July 16 Traveller Chris Stapleton [42]
July 23 If I'm Honest Blake Shelton [43]
July 30 Traveller Chris Stapleton [44]
August 6 We're All Somebody from Somewhere Steven Tyler [45]
August 13 Traveller Chris Stapleton [46]
August 20 American Love Jake Owen [47]
August 27 If I'm Honest Blake Shelton [48]
September 3 Kinda Don't Care Justin Moore [49]
September 10 Pure & Simple Dolly Parton [50]
September 17 Dig Your Roots Florida Georgia Line [51]
September 24 [52]
October 1 They Don't Know Jason Aldean [53]
October 8 Sinner Aaron Lewis [54]
October 15 Farm Tour... Here's to the Farmer Luke Bryan [55]
October 22 They Don't Know Jason Aldean [56]
October 29 [57]
November 5 Like an Arrow Blackberry Smoke [58]
November 12 Traveller Chris Stapleton [59]
November 19 Cosmic Hallelujah Kenny Chesney [60]
November 26 [61]
December 3 Christmas Together Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood [62]
December 10 The Weight of These Wings Miranda Lambert [63]
December 17 [64]
December 24 Kane Brown Kane Brown [65]
December 31 The Ultimate Collection Garth Brooks [66]

See also

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References

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