The Album Sales Review For 11/10/10: The Genre Whose CD Sales Never Stale

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It doesn't matter the time, country music CD sales will always be fine.

This Wednesday's installment of the Top 200 shows once again that it wouldn't be a terrible decision for any non-country artist to declare themselves part of that genre. Because it is a guarantee that people will buy your CD if you say you are.

Kanye's most famous victim continues her stunning numbers on her latest release, along with a few others right behind holding the flag for that unstoppable genre:

For the first time in three years, the top three selling albums in the U.S. are all country efforts. Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for a second week (320,000; down 69% according to Nielsen SoundScan), Jason Aldean's "My Kinda Party" starts at No. 2 (193,000) and Sugarland's former No. 1 "The Incredible Machine" slips one rung to No. 3 (60,000; down 32%).

And not to be forgotten is Brad Paisley's "Hits Alive" coming in at #9, giving four spots to a genre that leads its loyal fan base to garner its work physically deep in the digital era.

Someone needs to tell Bruno Mars to have a press conference announcement of his switch to this genre to facilitate his very disappointing sales.