Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill Hold Top Albums, Singles
NASHVILLE —
COLOR="#003163">Faith Hill and the
Dixie Chicks
continue to dominate the country music charts in
Billboard, although 11-year-old newcomer
Billy Gilman is
beginning to make himself known.
Gilman, whose debut album on Epic is due next month, has
his first single, "One Voice," at #6 on the Country Singles
chart — up from #12 last week after three weeks on
the chart — and it debuts on the Hot Country Singles
& Tracks chart at #71.
Hill retains her lock on #1 on the Hot Country Singles &
Tracks chart with "The Way You Love Me," with
COLOR="#003163">Andy Griggs' "She's
More" holding at #2, Clay
Walker's "The Chain of Love" moving from #4
to #3, and Chad
Brock's"Yes!" going from #8 to #4.
COLOR="#003163">Kenny Chesney's "What
I Need to Do" moves into the top 10 at #9. The
COLOR="#003163">Garth Brooks video track
that some country stations are playing, "When You Come
Back to Me Again," goes from #52 to #38 after three weeks.
Other debuts on the chart, besides Gilman's, are
Toby Keith's
"Country Comes to Town" at #60,
COLOR="#003163">Tracy Lawrence's
"Lonely" at #61 and Aaron
Tippin's "Kiss This" at #70.
The top five singles on the Country Singles Chart remain
unchanged from last week, with Hill's "Breathe" at #1, the
Chicks' "Goodbye Earl" at #2, Brock's "Yes!" at #3,
Lonestar's
"Amazed" at #4, and
COLOR="#003163">Jessica Andrews'
"Unbreakable Heart" at #5.
There is little movement on the Top Country albums chart,
with the Chicks' Fly holding at #1, Hill's Breathe
at #2 and George
Strait's Latest Greatest Straitest Hits at
#3. Shania
Twain's Come On Over went from #5 to
#4 and
COLOR="#003163">Lonestar's Lonely
Grille dropped from #4 to #5.
COLOR="#003163">The Judds' Reunion
Live debuted at #16 and
COLOR="#003163">Steve Wariner's Faith
in You landed at #31 in its first week.
On the Billboard 200 albums chart, the Chicks'
Fly improved from #14 to #9, Hill's Breathe
likewise went from #16 to #10 and Strait's hits album stayed
steady at #32. The
COLOR="#003163">Judds debuted at #107
with their live album.