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Bucky Covington: Billboard Top Country Albums

January 16, 2012 by · Comments Off on Bucky Covington: Billboard Top Country Albums 

Bucky Covington: Billboard Top Country AlbumsBucky Covington: Billboard Top Country Albums, Bucky Covington is the self-titled debut album of American country music artist Bucky Covington. It was released by Lyric Street Records, the country division of Hollywood Records, on April 17, 2007. The lead-off single, “A Different World”, reached the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, with a peak of number six. “It’s Good to Be Us”, the album’s second single, reached number eleven. A third single, “I’ll Walk”, also reached the Top 10 with a peak of number ten. The song “Empty Handed” is featured on Nascar 08.

The album was produced by Mark Miller, lead singer of the country music band Sawyer Brown, and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee. Two other members of Sawyer Brown – Gregg “Hobie” Hubbard and Jim Scholten – also contribute on background vocals and bass guitar, respectively.
The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, selling about 61,000 copies in its first week. It also debuted at number one on Top Country Albums, which was at the time the best opening week for a debut album by a male on the country charts since Billy Ray Cyrus’ 1992 debut Some Gave All.; but later surpassed by Danny Gokey whose debut album sold 65,000 copies in its first week. The set has sold approximately 405,000 copies as of June 2009.

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