Carrie Underwood's "Play On" Breaks Chart Records

Posted by Lisa Ann Schleipfer on 11/13/2009
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Carrie Underwood has achieved a triple chart-topping week as her latest album, Play On, reached No. 1 on the pop, Country and digital charts. The album achieved 317,695 in sales, making Play On the No. 1 album in first-week of sales for a 2009 female artist, across all genres.

The soaring first-week success of Play On makes Underwood the only Country artist in the history of Nielsen SoundScan to achieve first-week sales of 300,000-plus for their first three consecutive albums.

Underwood also is the first American Idol contestant to achieve sales above the 300,000 mark for the first three albums. Underwood's previous release, the 2005 debut Some Hearts, is now seven-times Platinum, and 2007's Carnival Ride is currently triple-Platinum.