With five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, Blake Shelton's "Austin" ties a record set by Billy Ray Cyrus in 1992. Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" remained atop the chart for five weeks, setting the mark for an artist's debut single in the Broadcast Data Systems era of the chart. BDS began monitoring radio play for the chart in January 1991.
Holding their positions on the singles chart are Toby Keith's "I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight" at #2, Keith Urban's "Where the Blacktop Ends" at #3 and Cyndi Thomson's "What I Really Meant to Say" at #4. Brooks & Dunn's "Only in America" moves up a notch to #5. Singles making significant progress are Tim McGraw's "Angry All the Time" (up to #7 from #12), Trick Pony's "On a Night Like This" (up to #19 from #21) and Travis Tritt's "Love of a Woman" (up to #20 from #23).
Singles debuting this week are Jamie O'Neal's "Shiver" at #48, David Ball's "Riding With Private Malone" at #55, Jameson Clark's "Don't Play Any Love Songs" at #58 and Confederate Railroad's "That's What Brothers Do" at #59. Shelton's "Austin" tops the Country Singles Sales chart for a fifth straight week.
Mark Wills' fourth album, Loving Every Minute, debuts at #10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The chart's top five has changed little, with O Brother, Where Art Thou? at #1 followed by Coyote Ugly at #2, Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down at #3, Alison Krauss and Union Station's New Favorite at #4 and Lee Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance at #5. O Brother returns to the top of the Top Internet Albums chart, knocking New Favorite from #1 to #3, behind Maxwell's Now, which debuts at #2.
