The 50th annual Academy of Country Music Awards spur big gains for the April 19 show’s winners and performers, including Florida Georgia Line, Miranda Lambert and Little Big Town.
97,000
Little Big Town’s ACM performance of “Girl Crush” fueled the biggest sales week for a country song in 2015: 97,000 downloads, up 126 percent, according to Nielsen Music. Their 2014 LP Pain Killer also nets the largest gain on Top Country Albums (up 7,000 to 11,000; 12-7)
13,000
Florida Georgia Line, which performed and won two awards, earns the second-largest unit gain on Top Country Albums, as 2014’s Anything Goes rises 5-4 with 13,000 units sold in the week ending April 19 (up 5,000).
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Country album sales were up by 33percent to 608,000 in the week ending April 19, thanks in part to publicity generated by the ACM Awards. Country digital song sales lifted by 8percent (to 2.6 million).