Carrie Underwood has done it again.
The country superstar makes it five for five this week as her newly-released "Greatest Hits: Decade #1" becomes her fifth consecutive album to debut at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums sales chart. The 25-song collection - which includes her new Grammy-nominated smash single, "Something in the Water" - tops the chart with first-week sales of 94,000, delivering the best-selling debut for a hits collection by an artist in any genre of music in more than six years, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Remarkably, not since November of 2005, when Underwood emerged on the scene with her now seven times-platinum debut album, "Some Hearts," has any female artist debuted with as high an opening-week sales tally for a hits package.
Kicked off by the record-setting success of the gold-certified Top 5 and still climbing first single, "Something in the Water," (penned by Underwood, Chris DeStefano, and Brett James), "Greatest Hits: Decade #1" also includes the new song "Little Toy Guns" and four songs in never-before-released versions, as well as all 18 of Underwood's No. 1 hits, according to a press release.
Underwood emerged from the promise of her 2005 "American Idol" win to become a true multi-format, multi-media superstar, spanning achievements in music, television and film, where the six-time Grammy Award winner has amassed more than 95 major honors, sold more than 64 million records worldwide and recorded 18 No. 1 singles, nine of which she co-wrote.
