On Monday, the American country and bluegrass musician - Chris Stapleton, climbed to the top of the weekly U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, after the singer swept the Country Music Awards with three wins last week, and a lively performance with one of the two lead vocalists and youngest member of the boy band NSYNC - Justin Timberlake.
Christopher Alvin "Chris" Stapleton's debut album "Traveller," that was released in May this year, won the 2015 Country Music Association Awards for Album of the Year, Best Male Vocalist and New Artist of the Year. Chris Stapleton sold about 153,000 albums, with a healthy 218,000 songs and was streamed online for almost 3 million times in the past week, taking everything into account of 177,000 units.
The 37 year old established songwriter Chris Stapleton caps a breakthrough year for his album Traveller.
Stapleton's 'Tennessee Whiskey' track, which the bluegrass musician performed with the American singer, songwriter and actor Justin Timberlake at the televised awards show, went to the No. 2 spot on this week's Billboard Digital Songs chart and came together with a 131,000 downloads.
The Country Music Awards also boosted up albums of country artists like the American singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the winner of the fourth season of 2005's American Idol - Carrie Underwood, whose record 'Storyteller, remained stable at the No. 2 spot this week with a healthy 81,000 units sold. While the latest 'Mr. Misunderstood' song of the American country music singer and songwriter - Eric Church, debuted at the No. 3 spot with 76,000 units.
The Billboard 200 chart scores the units from the artist's album sales, song sales - where 10 songs is equivalent to one album, and the album's streaming activity - the 1,500 streams are equal to one album.
In addition, other new entries this week on the Billboard 200 chart, included "Now 56," the latest installment of a compilation featuring artists Taylor Swift and the Canadian singer - The Weeknd, at the No. 4 spot.
