Eric Church’s Desperate Man held the top spot on the Billboard Country Album Chart for a second week in a row. The collection sold nearly 16,000 copies to land at No. 1, followed by Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty at No. 2.

Eric says the key that unlocked the album was made up of three songs. “An interesting thing about this album is that there are some crumbs that led us to this album. There were three songs that really led to the rest of the album and that’s ‘The Snake,’ which is up front on the album, that’s ‘Hippie Radio’ and that’s ‘Higher Wire,’ and there is a creative thing that happened. Those were the ether of the earlier ones that took us from we are on this path, and then we went to this path,” says Eric. “I think that if I am talking to [the fans] and they are listening to the album the album as a whole, there’s something pretty magical about those three tracks because they really made the record happen. And that’s not something that everybody would know unless I tell you. For me, that was really the key that unlocked Desperate Man.”

Eric, who is currently sitting inside the Top 20 with his latest song, “Desperate Man,” will kick off his Double Down Tour with a two-night stand in Omaha, Nebraska beginning January 18th.