Congratulations to Carrie Underwood, who makes it five in a row as her fifth album — her 25-song Greatest Hits: Decade #1 — has just debuted at number-one on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, with first-week sales of 94,000 copies, according to the folks who crunch the numbers at Nielsen SoundScan. This marks the best-selling debut for a hits album by any artist in any genre of music in more than six years. It’s an impressive accomplishment — and one that speaks to the fact that Carrie really wanted this to be a very cool collection for her fans. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• According to a press release, Carrie’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 also debuts at number-four on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart, with the chart’s sales and streaming methodology registering an equivalent of 103,000 albums!
• Not since November of 2005, when Carrie released her now-7x-Platinum debut album, Some Hearts, has any female artist debuted with as high an opening-week sales tally for a hits package. Wow!
• Along with all the other incredible music (including all 18 of Carrie’s number-one hits, as well as exclusives and new music!), Carrie’s Greatest Hits: Decade #1 features her current smash single, “Something in the Water,” which recently earned Carrie a GRAMMY® Award nomination for Best Country Solo Performance!
• Look for the album everywhere you find music, including iTunes!

  Carrie Underwood talks about her chart-topping new album, Greatest Hits: Decade #1. (:43)
“I definitely feel like the Greatest Hits: Decade #1 is for me, and it’s for the fans. I mean, that’s what it’s all about. It’s been such a great process for me to really get to go over the past 10 years, you know, in my own head. And we really just wanted to make it special for them. We wanted them to feel like they have been a part of it from the beginning, because they have. We didn’t want to leave anything out. We didn’t want to leave any song out, so we had to make it a two-disc set, and of course, have some new stuff on there because we’re definitely looking ahead to the next 10 years.”