New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Interscope Records) Lauren Alaina's debut album, Wildflower, is the best-selling female country debut since 2006 and is the highest country album debut this week, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and an impressive No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200.
With first-week sales of 69,013, Lauren is the youngest female artist to debut this high on the Billboard charts since LeAnn Rimes' debut 15 years ago. Wildflower also becomes the best-selling digital album by a debut country female, selling 19,659 digital albums.
"I am just so thankful that I have been given the opportunity to share my music with the world," said Lauren Alaina. "To see my name on the charts alongside country greats that I have admired and looked up to my whole life is absolutely mind-blowing!"
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