Lady Antebellum Enjoy Post-Grammy Sales Surge

Lady Antebellum returned to the No. 1 position on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart this week. Selling about 85,000 copies of 'Need You Now' in the past week (according to Nielsen SoundScan data), the trio experience a more than 200 percent increase in sales over last week for the now triple-platinum-selling disc. 


They also vault from No. 17 to No. 4 on the multi-genre Billboard 200 on the strength of those Grammy wins, which included Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Country Song of the Year, Country Performance by a Vocal Duo/Group and Country Album of the Year.


In other 'Need You Now' news, a cover version of the tune has been released by British songstress Adele with Darius Rucker. Recorded live at CMT's Artists of the Year Awards last November, the track is available in a Target stores-exclusive version of Adele's album, '21,' out this week. 


Lady Antebellum lost the 2009 Best New Artist Grammy to Adele, who has cited contemporary country music among her biggest influences.