Gary Allan’s Set You Free remains atop the Billboard Country Singles Chart for a second week in a row. The disc sold nearly 34-thousand copies this past week to hold steady at number-one on the country chart and land at number-eight overall. Last week, the collection, containing his gold-certified, chart-topping single “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain),” debuted at the top of both the country and Top 200 charts with 106-thousand copies sold. “I sort of forced myself to stretch this time; one, because I had so much time, and I always feel like you have to do something new to reinvent yourself,” says Gary. “I think it’s my favorite album.”

The California native is not only celebrating a number-one single and album, but he’s also thrilled that his two shows at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium in April sold-out in 10-minutes each.

AUDIO: Gary Allan says there is a lot of diversity on his latest album, Set You Free, which debuted atop the Billboard Top 200 last week and is still sitting at number-one on the country chart.

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“I sort of forced myself to stretch this time; one, because I had so much time and I always feel like you have to do something new to reinvent yourself, and this time it was [with] producers. I did stuff with Jay Joyce, which I’ve never done. How we did it this time is I did five songs with Jay Joyce, five songs with Mark Wright, and then I did five songs with my band and engineer Greg Droman. I think if you cut everything at one time, if you cut 15 songs, usually it’s okay if you end up with an album cut or a couple songs that don’t make the record. But since we did it like that, we were all competing with each other. Like we only got five, so there was a lot less room for mistake. And I think the result is we just got better quality everything. I think it’s my favorite album too.”