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King Luke: He's In Charge of the Charts for a Second Week

LeAnn Rimes Has Year's First Charting Christmas Album

Just in time for Halloween - our first Christmas album! More on that in a minute.

It surely must feel like Christmas for Luke Bryan. For the second week in a row, his music tops both Billboard’s country albums chart - with Kill the Lights - and the country airplay rankings - with “Strip It Down.”

He sure has a way with imperative sentences, doesn’t he? How about Win ‘Em All? Suppose that would work?

And now to seasonal joys. LeAnn Rimes has this week’s highest debuting album with her narrowly titled Today Is Christmas. It leaps out of the stocking at No. 18.

Also new are Stoney LaRue’s Us Time (No. 22) and Jake Worthington’s eponymous EP (No. 44).

Returning to the chart are the various-artists package, The Sound of Today: Country! (No. 48), and Tennessee Ernie Ford’s Amazing Grace: 14 Treasured Hymns (No. 50).

There are two new singles - Kip Moore’s “Running for You” (No. 50) and Keith Urban’s “Break on Me” (No. 54).

Lucy Angel’s “Crazy Too” comes back on at No. 57.

The No. 2 through No. 5 albums, in that order, are Thomas Rhett’s Tangled Up, George Strait’s Cold Beer Conversation, Don Henley’s Cass County and Sam Hunt’s Montevallo.

Rounding out the Top 5 songs cluster are Old Dominion’s “Break Up With Him,” Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes,” Cole Swindell’s “Let Me See Ya Girl” and Carrie Underwood’s “Smoke Break.”

You’d think global warming would delay Christmas albums rather than bring them on early. But nothing else makes much sense, either.

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