Garth Brooks debuts at number one on the Top Country Albums chart this week, selling 130,000 copies of his first new studio album in 13 years. Man Against Machine is his fourteenth collection to bow atop the country charts. Garth’s last studio effort predates the beginning of the digital age; Scarecrow moved 466,000 units in 2001, enough to also claim bragging rights on the all-genre chart.
This time, Garth wasn’t able to best an impressive third-week showing for Taylor Swift‘s 1989, which more than doubled his numbers with 312,000 buys to land at number one on the Billboard 200. New CD’s from Foo Fighters and Pink Floyd placed Garth at number 4 on the overall chart.
If Garth’s numbers seem lackluster, his own GhostTunes may be to blame. That’s the only place Man Against Machine is available digitally, and Billboard says the site didn’t report its downloads to SoundScan.
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