Kenny Chesney's 'Live in No Shoes Nation' Debuts at No. 1

Country king Kenny Chesney collects his eighth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new live effort, Live in No Shoes Nation, starts atop the list with 219,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 2, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 217,000 were in traditional album sales. The album was released on Oct. 27 through Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Nov. 18-dated chart (where Live in No Shoes Nation bows at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Chesney continues to have the second-most No. 1s among all country acts, trailing only Garth Brooks, who has nine. All eight of Chesney’s No. 1s have debuted in the penthouse, making him the country act with the most debuts at No. 1. (Seven of Brooks’ nine leaders started at No. 1.)

Live in No Shoes Nation is also the first live album to lead the chart in more than seven years. The last to do so was the various artists charity set Hope for Haiti