List of Top Country Albums number ones of 2010
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File:Lady A - Charlotte 12-27-12-39.jpg 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/7669133/billboard-genre-album-charts-consumption-streams-track-sales|title=Billboard's Genre Album Charts Will Now Incorporate Streams & Track Sales|magazine=Billboard|date=January 26, 2017|accessdate=April 6, 2020}}
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.{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|publisher=Record Research, Incorporated|date=2008|isbn=9780898201734|page=338}} 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.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/2010/billboard-200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180316085348/https://www.billboard.com/archive/charts/2010/billboard-200|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 16, 2018|title=Billboard 200 - 2010 Archive|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 24, 2020}}
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,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jerrod-niemann/chart-history/clp/|title=Jerrod Niemann Chart History|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 26, 2020}} 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/blake-shelton/chart-history/clp/|title=Blake Shelton Chart History|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 26, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/all-about-tonight-mw0002016604|title=All About Tonight – Blake Shelton|publisher=AllMusic|first=Thom|last=Jurek|accessdate=May 26, 2020}} Shelton had first entered both the country singles and albums charts in 2001 and had achieved a number of chart-topping singles,{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/blake-shelton/chart-history/csi/|title=Blake Shelton Chart History|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 26, 2020}} but had never managed to reach the top of the albums listing until 2010.{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|publisher=Record Research, Incorporated|date=2008|isbn=9780898201734|page=224}} 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.{{cite book|title=Joel Whitburn Presents Hot Country Albums: Billboard 1964 to 2007|first=Joel|last=Whitburn|publisher=Record Research, Incorporated|date=2008|isbn=9780898201734|page=145}} 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.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jamey-johnson/chart-history/clp/|title=Jamey Johnson Chart History|magazine=Billboard|accessdate=May 26, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2015/05/07/the-zac-brown-band-charts-a-third-number-one-album-with-jekyll-hyde|title=The Zac Brown Band Charts Their Third Number One Album with 'Jekyll + Hyde'|work=Forbes|date=May 7, 2015|first=Hugh|last=McIntyre|accessdate=May 26, 2020}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.nashcountrydaily.com/2019/10/01/zac-brown-bands-the-owl-debuts-at-no-1-on-billboards-top-country-albums-chart/|title=Zac Brown Band's "The Owl" Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums Chart|work=Nash Country Daily|first=Jim|last=Casey|date=October 1, 2019|accessdate=May 26, 2020}}
Chart history
File:Jamey Johnson 2013.jpg reached number one for the first time with The Guitar Song.]]
File:Jerrodniemann.jpg was the first chart-topper for Jerrod Niemann.]]
File:Taylor Swift 2011crop.jpg both began and ended the year at number one.]]
File:BlakeSheltonApr10.jpg topped the chart with the six-song EP All About Tonight.]]
