Carrie Underwood?s fifth studio album, Storyteller, arrives atop Billboard?s Top Country Albums chart. The set starts with 164,000 in pure sales, according to Nielsen Music, and 177,000 equivalent-album units.
Underwood becomes the first artist in the survey?s 51-year history to post six consecutive career-opening No 1s. Additionally, all of her albums have opened atop the list, starting with 2005?s Some Hearts. Carnival Ride followed in 2007, and she continued with Play On (2009), Blown Away (2009) and Greatest Hits: Decade #1 (2014). Underwood passes Miranda Lambert, who has posted five successive career -- starting Top Country Albums No. 1s (with all also debuting atop the tally).
Storyteller lifts Underwood into a tie with Dolly Parton for third place among female artists with the most Top Country Albums leaders, behind Reba McEntire (12) and Loretta Lynn (eight).
