List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2010

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Lady Antebellum spent 24 consecutive weeks at number one with Need You Now.

Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 2010, 14 different albums topped the chart; placings were based on electronic point of sale data from retail outlets.

The year both began and ended with albums by Taylor Swift at number one. In the issue of Billboard dated January 2, her album Fearless held the top spot, its thirtieth week atop the chart. It remained at number one for a further five weeks for a final total of 35 weeks in the peak position, the highest figure for an album since the soundtrack album of the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? spent the same length of time at number one in 2001 and 2002. Fearless was displaced from the top spot in the issue dated February 13 by Need You Now by the group Lady Antebellum, which spent 24 consecutive weeks at number one, lasting through the issue dated July 24. Swift returned to number one in November with Speak Now, which spent six of the final seven weeks of 2010, meaning that Swift was the only act with more than one number one during the year. Need You Now and Speak Now were among a number of country albums to also top the all-genre Billboard 200 chart in 2010.

Five acts reached number one in 2010 for the first time. In July, Jerrod Niemann gained his first chart-topper with Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury, interrupting Lady Antebellum's time at number one for a single week. In August, Blake Shelton reached number one for the first time in his career with the six-track EP All About Tonight. Shelton had first entered both the country singles and albums charts in 2001 and had achieved a number of chart-topping singles, but had never managed to reach the top of the albums listing until 2010. The band Little Big Town also reached the top spot on the country albums chart for the first time in 2010 after a lengthy wait; The Reason Why topped the chart in September more than eight years after the group first entered the chart. The following month Jamey Johnson and the Zac Brown Band made their first appearances at number one in consecutive weeks with The Guitar Song and You Get What You Give respectively. The latter album began an unbroken run of chart-toppers for the group; as of the end of the decade the band had reached number one with five consecutive albums.

Chart history

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Jamey Johnson reached number one for the first time with The Guitar Song.

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Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury was the first chart-topper for Jerrod Niemann.

Taylor Swift both began and ended the year at number one.

Blake Shelton topped the chart with the six-song EP All About Tonight.

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 2	Fearless	Taylor Swift
January 9
January 16
January 23
January 30
February 6
February 13	Need You Now	Lady Antebellum
February 20
February 27
March 6
March 13
March 20
March 27
April 3
April 10
April 17
April 24
May 1
May 8
May 15
May 22
May 29
June 5
June 12
June 19
June 26
July 3
July 10
July 17
July 24
July 31	Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury	Jerrod Niemann
August 7	Need You Now	Lady Antebellum
August 14
August 21
August 28	All About Tonight	Blake Shelton
September 4	Cowboy's Back in Town	Trace Adkins
September 11	The Reason Why	Little Big Town
September 18	Need You Now	Lady Antebellum
September 25
October 2	The Guitar Song	Jamey Johnson
October 9	You Get What You Give	Zac Brown Band
October 16	Hemingway's Whiskey	Kenny Chesney
October 23	Bullets in the Gun	Toby Keith
October 30	Charleston, SC 1966	Darius Rucker
November 6	The Incredible Machine	Sugarland
November 13	Speak Now	Taylor Swift
November 20
November 27
December 4	Nothing Like This	Rascal Flatts
December 11	Speak Now	Taylor Swift
December 18
December 25