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Carrie Underwood’s “Storyteller” album landed at number two when the Billboard 200 was announced today.

Perhaps more impressively, the 32-year-old’s new album hit number one on the country albums chart, meaning she’s accomplished that feat six straight times.

Rolling Stone reports that Carrie is the first country artist to have her first six albums land at number one. Oh, and her first-week sales total of 177,000 is nearly double that of any other female country artist’s first-week album sales in the past 12 months.

And it’s not as though Carrie didn’t have some competition on the country album charts.

A guy named Blake Shelton just dropped “Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits.” That album landed at number two on the country chart, right behind Carrie, and number five on the Billboard 200.

Topping the Billboard 200 this week is 5 Seconds of Summer with their new album, “Sounds Good Feels Good.”

Carrie’s previous release, her own greatest hits album, debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 and sold 103,000 copies in its first week.

“Smoke Break,” the lead single off “Storyteller,” also continues to perform well on the country charts.

It moves up one spot this week from number five to number four on the country airplay chart and from number seven to number six on the hot country singles chart. It holds steady at number 10 on the streaming country singles chart.

Don’t forget, Carrie will be co-hosting the CMA Awards with Brad Paisley tomorrow night. And she recently announced her 2016 tour; tickets go on sale Friday.