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For most artists, getting their album to debut on the Billboard Top 100 Country Albums Chart is a career achievement. For Willie Nelson, he's had more albums make their debut on that chart than most artists have had albums. His newest album, "The Border," came out last week and promptly became the 114th album over his illustrious career to make an appearance on the Billboard Top 100 Country Albums Chart in its very first week. The legend has 152 albums to his credit, so that's a pretty solid winning success rate (We did the math for you; 75-percent of all his albums have debuted on the chart) and it's a record not likely to ever be broken.
The numbers are in and CMA Fest attracted roughly 90-thousand people to Music City each day of the event. The Country Music Association says those numbers have been similar over the last two years. The four-day event attracted fans from all 50 states and 46 countries plus featured more than 300 performances at various venues throughout the city.