Waylon Jennings’ From-the-Vaults ‘Songbird’ Soars Into Top 10 on Five Billboard Charts

Waylon Jennings notches his archetypal apical 10 connected Billboard’s Top Album Sales illustration with the debut of the from-the-vaults postulation Songbird. The acceptable flies successful astatine No. No. 6 connected Top Album Sales (dated Oct. 18), portion besides entering the apical 10 connected 4 much charts: Top Current Album Sales (No. 6), Indie Store Album Sales (No. 7), Americana/Folk Albums (No. 8) and Vinyl Albums (No. 9). It besides starts astatine No. 17 connected Top Country Albums, No. 18 connected Independent Albums and No. 116 connected the all-genre Billboard 200.

Songbird was compiled and mixed by Waylon’s lad Shooter Jennings, and consists of antecedently unheard recordings by Waylon produced betwixt 1973-84. Songbird is the first of a trio of antecedently unheard albums from Waylon.

Waylon Jennings died successful 2002 aft a stellar vocation connected the charts, including 16 No. 1s connected Billboard’s Hot Country Songs ranking, and 11 No. 1s connected Top Country Albums.

Songbird marks Waylon’s archetypal apical 10 connected the 34-year-old Top Album Sales chart, arsenic it starts astatine No. 6 with astir 9,000 copies sold successful the United States successful the week ending Oct. 9, according to Luminate.

Songbird is 1 of 3 debuts successful the apical 10 connected Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart, wherever Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl storms successful astatine No. 1 with 3,479,500 copies sold (the largest income week for an medium successful the modern era, since Luminate began tracking information successful 1991). Stray Kids’ erstwhile No. 1 KARMA rises 5-2, the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack steps 4-3, Sabrina Carpenter’s chart-topping Man’s Best Friend climbs 10-4, AFI’s Silver Bleeds the Black Sun debuts astatine No. 5 (nearly 10,000; marking the 4th apical 10 for the act), P1Harmony’s EX falls ...