MCA Nashville’s Sam Hunt’s debut Montevallo debuted at the top of the Country Album Chart this week with nearly 70,000 albums sold. The album also is No. 3 overall on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and is the best-selling debut album for a country artist since 2011. Montevallo is also the No. 2 Digital Album overall.
Sam’s platinum-selling lead single “Leave the Night On” is the current No. 1 song at country radio and is the first new artist debut title to top the charts in nearly two years. Rolling Stone includes Hunt as one of its “Artists You Need to Know,” and Associated Press tags Hunt as “a more sensitive and distinctive newcomer than most of his peers.”
Produced by Zach Crowell and Shane McAnally, MONTEVALLO is earning praise across the board. Billboard gives the album four out of five stars and The Washington Post calls MONTEVALLO “the most seductive, deceptively original and flat-out best album released this year.”
Hunt recently performed on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and tonight, he will be a presenter on the 48th Annual CMA Awards, airing live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena at 8pm ET on ABC.
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Sam Hunt (Montevallo expectations) OC: …makes them feel. :43
“I hope that people, if the give the full album a chance, will have the ability to see what I want to represent as an artist, they will be able to get out of this music what I get out of music that I love, you know? The record is hopefully diverse enough to reach people of several different tastes. If there is something I could say to someone that was about to listen to this record for the first time, I would hope that they could put aside any preconceived notions or any direction that whatever they have stumbled across before has given them, they could open their mind and just listen to the music with an open mind and open heart and just see how they feel about it; see how it makes them feel.”
