List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2013

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2013, 21 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets.^[1]

Here's to the Good Times, the debut album by Florida Georgia Line, spent eight weeks at number one.

In the issue of Billboard dated January 5, Taylor Swift was at number one with Red, the album's ninth week at number one.^[2] The album spent eight weeks in the top spot in 2013, but would prove to be Swift's last entry on the Top Country Albums chart,^[3] as she moved away from the country music genre with her subsequent releases.^[4] With eight weeks atop the chart, Red tied with Here's to the Good Times, the debut album by Florida Georgia Line,^[5] for the most time spent at number one in 2013 by an album. Luke Bryan, the only artist with more than one number one in 2013, had the highest total number of weeks at number one by an artist during the year: he spent two weeks in the peak position with Spring Break…Here to Party and seven with Crash My Party. Both Bryan and Florida Georgia Line were associated with the so-called bro-country style, an emerging sub-genre which incorporated influences from rock music and hip hop and often featured lyrics relating to partying, attractive young women, and pick-up trucks.^[6][7]

In addition to Florida Georgia Line, several other acts reached number one for the first time in 2013. In April, Kacey Musgraves and The Band Perry both gained their first chart-toppers with Same Trailer Different Park and Pioneer respectively,^[8][9] and Hunter Hayes achieved the same feat in July with his eponymous album. Hayes's album reached the top spot in its 89th week on the chart, the longest time taken for an album to reach number one since Billboard began using electronic sales data in 1991.^[10] Cassadee Pope, the winner of the third season of TV singing contest The Voice late the previous year,^[11] gained her first number one album in October with Frame by Frame.^[12] In December, the Robertson family from the TV show Duck Dynasty topped the chart with their debut album Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas.^[13] It was displaced in the issue of Billboard dated December 14 by the compilation album Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences by Garth Brooks, which entered the chart at number one.^[14] Brooks's compilation was one of several of 2013's Top Country Albums number ones to also top the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, along with albums by Taylor Swift, Gary Allan, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum and Keith Urban.^[15]

Chart history

Taylor Swift spent eight weeks at number one with the album Red.

The Robertson family from the TV show Duck Dynasty (Willie Robertson pictured) topped the chart with Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas.

Hunter Hayes reached number one for the first time with his eponymous album.

Cassadee Pope, the winner of the third season of The Voice, topped the chart with her debut album.

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 5	Red	Taylor Swift	[2]
January 12			[16]
January 19			[17]
January 26			[18]
February 2			[19]
February 9	Set You Free	Gary Allan	[20]
February 16			[21]
February 23	Two Lanes of Freedom	Tim McGraw	[22]
March 2	Red	Taylor Swift	[23]
March 9			[24]
March 16			[25]
March 23	Spring Break…Here to Party	Luke Bryan	[26]
March 30			[27]
April 6	Same Trailer Different Park	Kacey Musgraves	[28]
April 13	Based on a True Story…	Blake Shelton	[29]
April 20	Pioneer	The Band Perry	[30]
April 27	Wheelhouse	Brad Paisley	[31]
May 4	Based on a True Story…	Blake Shelton	[32]
May 11			[33]
May 18	Life on a Rock	Kenny Chesney	[34]
May 25	Golden	Lady Antebellum	[35]
June 1	Love Is Everything	George Strait	[36]
June 8	True Believers	Darius Rucker	[37]
June 15	Based on a True Story…	Blake Shelton	[38]
June 22			[39]
June 29	Here's to the Good Times	Florida Georgia Line	[40]
July 6	Hunter Hayes	Hunter Hayes	[41]
July 13	Here's to the Good Times	Florida Georgia Line	[42]
July 20			[43]
July 27			[44]
August 3			[45]
August 10			[46]
August 17			[47]
August 24			[48]
August 31	Crash My Party	Luke Bryan	[49]
September 7			[50]
September 14			[51]
September 21			[52]
September 28	Fuse	Keith Urban	[53]
October 5	Off the Beaten Path	Justin Moore	[54]
October 12	Crash My Party	Luke Bryan	[55]
October 19			[56]
October 26	Frame by Frame	Cassadee Pope	[57]
November 2	See You Tonight	Scotty McCreery	[58]
November 9	Crash My Party	Luke Bryan	[59]
November 16	Duck the Halls: A Robertson Family Christmas	The Robertsons	[60]
November 23			[61]
November 30			[62]
December 7			[63]
December 14	Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences	Garth Brooks	[14]
December 21			[64]
December 28			[65]

See also

• 2013 in music
• List of number-one country singles of 2013 (U.S.)