Miranda Lambert is winning for the second week in a row as Platinum tops Billboard's country albums chart says CMT.
According to Billboard, the album made its debut at No. 1 with 180,000 sold per Nielsen SoundScan.
It has also been reported that Lambert has become the first artist in the survey's 50-year history to post five consecutive career-opening No. 1s.
Lambert's accomplishments have set her apart from other women in country music. Her fifth No. 1 bypasses Carrie Underwood, who has debuted at No. 1 with all four of her sets.
The "Automatic" singer concurrently nabbed best sales week and the largest for an album by a female country artist since the week ending Dec. 30, 2012, when Taylor Swift's Red sold 241,000.
Lambert is only the 11th female country artist to top the Billboard 200, since 1956.
Interestingly, all of Lambert's albums have out sold her previous releases.
Her first release, Kerosene, sold 40,000 copies in 2005. She followed up in 2007 with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (53,000), 2009's Revolution (66,000) and 2011's Four the Record (133,000).
As for the current charts, Brantley Gilbert's Just As I Am trails behind at No. 2 with the multi-artist collection Now That's What I Call Country: Volume 7, Luke Bryan's Crash My Party and Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times filling the No. 3 through No. 5 spots, in that order.
CMT reports that three new albums have come aboard the charts: Demun Jones' Jones Country (No. 30), Danny Boone's Fish Grease (No. 31) and Gene Watson's My Heroes Have Always Been Country (No. 48).
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