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There are no fewer than five country Christmas albums scheduled for release in October 2016. Kacey Musgraves, Rascal Flatts and Brett Eldredge have three of them. Kenny Chesney and Mo Pitney highlight the non-holiday albums set to drop.

This week the McCreerians were victorious! They voted hard and got the "Southern Belle" video back to the top spot in the Video Countdown, with Home Free falling behind to No. 2 in this tight battle.

This week, Brantley Gilbert is once again celebrating having written the No. 1 country song in America. This one is extra sweet, however, as it’s his first chart-topping hit as a songwriter and performer.

Last week, Scotty McCreery‘s new album ‘Clear as Day’ debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and it doesn’t look like he’s willing to come down from atop that mountain, even for good friend Lauren Alaina. The ‘American Idol’ runner-up’s album ‘Wildflower’ sold just under 70,000 albums in its first week, enough to place second on the country album charts.

Scotty McCreery is poised to claim the Number One spot when his first full-length effort ‘Clear as Day’ makes its debut on the charts next week. But will he actually pull it off? It’s been nearly a decade since ‘American Idol‘ was able to turn all its ratings mojo into a Number One album debut for one of its contestants. The last one was Ruben Studdard, whose ‘Thankful’ bowed at the top of the cha