Several acts reached number one on the Top Country Albums chart for the first time in 2005, including comedian Larry the Cable Guy, who spent four weeks atop the chart with The Right to Bare Arms, a live recording of one of his stand-up comedy performances. The album entered the country chart despite consisting almost entirely of spoken-word performance rather than music; previous albums by the performer and other "redneck"-styled comedians such as Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall had also been deemed eligible for the country albums chart. Five other acts topped the chart in 2005 for the first time: Miranda Lambert with Kerosene in April, Dierks Bentley with Modern Day Drifter in May, Sara Evans with Real Fine Place and Gary Allan with Tough All Over, both in October, and Carrie Underwood with Some Hearts, which reached number one in December and was the year's final chart-topper. Underwood had won the fourth season of TV singing competition American Idol earlier in the year, and Some Hearts, her debut album, would go on to be a major success, becoming the best-selling album of 2006 in the US. Such was its enduring popularity that it was the biggest-selling country music album of both 2006 and 2007. Miranda Lambert had also risen to prominence via a TV singing contest, having finished in third place on the first season of Nashville Star in 2003.
