Billboard charts

Taylor Swift sits atop two out of three of the Billboard 2012 Year-End Country Charts. The songstress takes the title of No. 1 Country Artist, as well as earning the top Country Album with Red, which sold more 1.2 million copies its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan data...

With impressive first-week sales of 409,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Jason Aldean's Night Train charges to the top of Billboard's country albums chart and the multi-genre Billboard 200. The tally more than doubles the first-week sales of Jason's previous album, My Kinda Party, which has since gone on to sell more than three million copies...

Carrie Underwood's fourth studio album, Blown Away, has been certified Platinum, signifying sales of more than a million copies. This news comes the same week the record returns to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's country albums chart. Blown Away debuted at the top of the charts on its first week of release back in May and stayed there for five straight weeks...