Thomas Rhett Scores Second No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart With 'Center Point Road'

Thomas Rhett notches his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Center Point Road debuts atop the tally. The album earned 76,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 6, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 45,000 were in album sales. Both sums represent the biggest weeks of 2019 for any country album.

 Center Point Road was released on May 31 via Valory Records, and marks the first country album to hit No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart in 2019.

Center Point Road is the first country album to reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in 2019, and the first since Kane Brown’s Experiment opened atop the list dated Nov. 24, 2018. It also logs the biggest week in both total units and album sales for a country album since Experiment (126,000 units earned in its first week, with 107,000 of that sum in album sales).


Courtesy: Billboard.com