Thomas Rhett Tops Billboard 200 Albums Chart with ‘Life Changes’

Thomas Rhett's Life Changes is the first country release to top the all-genre Billboard 200 Albums Chart so far this year.  

Written by Lauren Laffer
Thomas Rhett Tops Billboard 200 Albums Chart with ‘Life Changes’
Thomas Rhett; Photo credit: Andrew Wendowski/Sounds Like Nashville

Thomas Rhett’s life is flourishing in the many aspects that are highly important to him. Not only does the singer have a solid marriage with wife Lauren, two adorable daughters, Willa Gray and Ada James, but he also has a bustling country music career as seen by his first week sales of his new album, Life Changes.

Not only did the Georgia native sell more than 123,000 units of the 14-song project, but he’s also the first country act to reach the top of the All-Genre Billboard 200 Albums Chart so far this year.

“In the fact that every time you put out a new project, it’s scary—are people going to like it at all or is it going to flop or is it going to do great? In the other sense, I feel like I’m in such a groove. This record was not made out of any sort of fear. It was made out of excitement and sheer, ‘I cannot wait to record these songs because I’m so passionate about these songs,’” Rhett explained to Sounds Like Nashville and other media prior to the album’s release. “In that aspect, it does take a little bit of the pressure away, because I know in my heart that this is the best representation of me today. If I can do that, I’m doing myself and hopefully everyone else, a favor.”

In the weeks leading up to the release of Life Changes, Rhett was crisscrossing the nation, taking part in numerous events from being a judge on the Miss America pageant, performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and doing three pop-up shows on release day in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago.

Thomas Rhett will spend much of the rest of the year out on the road with stops across the country, including a stop in Las Vegas for the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Festival. He’ll wrap up his year with several dates across the pond in Europe.