List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2001

Brooks & Dunn topped the chart in 2001 with Steers & Stripes .

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard . In 2001, 13 different albums topped the chart, based on electronic point of sale data provided by SoundScan Inc. ^[1]

In the issue of Billboard dated January 6, Tim McGraw was at number one with his album Greatest Hits , its fifth week in the top spot. It spent the first five weeks of 2001 atop the listing before being displaced by the soundtrack album of the film Coyote Ugly . McGraw returned to the top spot in May with Set This Circus Down and was the only act with two number ones during the year. Two other greatest hits albums reached number one in 2001. In October, Martina McBride reached number one with her album simply entitled Greatest Hits ; it was her first album to top the chart. ^[2] The following month, Reba McEntire, one of the most successful female singers in country music history, reached the peak position with her third such release, Greatest Hits Volume III: I'm a Survivor . In addition to McBride, the band Lonestar reached number one for the first time in 2001, spending a single week in the top spot in July with I'm Already There , and Toby Keith achieved the same feat two months later with Pull My Chain . ^[3]

In February, the soundtrack album of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? reached number one; by the end of the year it had spent 24 weeks in the top spot in six different spells. The soundtrack, curated and produced by T Bone Burnett, used bluegrass and folk music styles appropriate to the film's Great Depression-era setting and unexpectedly became a great success. ^[4] It would go on to spend a total of 35 weeks atop the country albums chart and reach number one on the all-genre Billboard 200 early in 2002, shortly after it won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. ^{[5] [6] [7]} The year's final chart-topper was Scarecrow by Garth Brooks, which entered the chart at number one in the issue of Billboard dated December 1, ^[8] and was atop the listing for the final five weeks of the year. It was the 11th chart-topper since 1990 for one of the most successful recording artists in history. ^{[9] [10]}

Chart history

T Bone Burnett curated and produced the soundtrack album for the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? .

Pull My Chain was the first number one for Toby Keith.

Martina McBride topped the chart with her album Greatest Hits .

The band Lonestar (lead singer Richie McDonald pictured) reached number one for the first time with I'm Already There .

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 6	Greatest Hits	Tim McGraw	[11]
January 13			[12]
January 20			[13]
January 27			[14]
February 3			[15]
February 10	Coyote Ugly	Soundtrack	[16]
February 17	I Need You	LeAnn Rimes	[17]
February 24	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[18]
March 3			[19]
March 10			[20]
March 17			[21]
March 24			[22]
March 31			[23]
April 7			[24]
April 14			[25]
April 21			[26]
April 28	Coyote Ugly	Soundtrack	[27]
May 5	Steers & Stripes	Brooks & Dunn	[28]
May 12	Set This Circus Down	Tim McGraw	[29]
May 19			[30]
May 26			[31]
June 2			[32]
June 9			[33]
June 16			[34]
June 23	Inside Out	Trisha Yearwood	[35]
June 30	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[36]
July 7			[37]
July 14	I'm Already There	Lonestar	[38]
July 21	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[39]
July 28			[40]
August 4			[41]
August 11			[42]
August 18			[43]
August 25			[44]
September 1			[45]
September 8			[46]
September 15	Pull My Chain	Toby Keith	[47]
September 22	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[48]
September 29			[49]
October 6	Greatest Hits	Martina McBride	[50]
October 13			[51]
October 20			[52]
October 27	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[53]
November 3			[54]
November 10	Greatest Hits Volume III: I'm a Survivor	Reba McEntire	[55]
November 17	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Soundtrack	[56]
November 24	The Road Less Traveled	George Strait	[57]
December 1	Scarecrow	Garth Brooks	[8]
December 8			[58]
December 15			[59]
December 22			[60]
December 29			[61]

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