Ringo Starr’s New Country Set ‘Look Up’ Arrives in Top 10 on Album Sales Chart
Written by djfrosty on January 22, 2025
Ringo Starr earns his first top 10 on Billboard’s all-genre Top Album Sales chart (which dates to 1991) as Look Up enters the list dated Jan. 25 at No. 7. The effort from The Beatles’ iconic drummer also arrives across a host of other Billboard album tallies, including Indie Store Album Sales (No. 2), Top Rock Albums (No. 7), Americana/Folk Albums (No. 12), Top Country Albums (a career-best No. 27) and Top Rock & Alternative Albums (No. 30). On the overall Billboard 200, it starts at No. 147, marking Starr’s 20th entry, dating to his first, Sentimental Journey, in 1970.
The 11-song album, recorded in Nashville and produced by T Bone Burnett, was released Jan. 10, on the revived Lost Highway imprint.
Starr recently told Billboard, “I did love country music before I was in (The Beatles). We got plenty of it in Liverpool, because the lads who were in the merchant navy would bring not only rock and roll over, but country — and when country bands went on tour in England, they always played Liverpool.” The new set boasts a host of collaborators from the worlds of country, Americana/folk and bluegrass, including Alison Krauss, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle.
Look Up earned 9,000 equivalent album units in the tracking week ending Jan. 16 in the United States, according to Luminate, with 8,000 of that sum in traditional album sales.
That 8,000-sales figure yields Starr’s No. 7 arrival on Top Album Sales, marking his first top 10 and his 14th chart appearance on the 33-year-old chart, whose history dates to May of 1991, when Billboard began tabulating charts with electronically monitored piece count information from SoundScan, now Luminate. Starr had previously peaked at No. 11 with 2021’s Zoom In.
Meanwhile Look Up charts on multiple other surveys. It opens at a career-best No. 27 on Top Country Albums, marking his second entry – and second top 40-charting effort – on the list. The 84-year-old previously appeared on Top Country Albums when Beaucoups of Blues hit No. 35 in December 1970.
Plus, Look Up starts at No. 12 on Americana/Folk Albums marking Starr’s first appearance on the 15-year-old chart.
-additional reporting by Keith Caulfield