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Gretchen Wilson Jacks Up Chart
10/05/2005 5:40 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
The Redneck Woman has gotten all jacked up on the charts.
Gretchen Wilson, the country music rebel who created a huge splash with
last year's surprise hit Here for the Party, spoiled the party
for the likes of Sheryl Crow, Three 6 Mafia, Toni Braxton, Lil' Kim,
Sean Paul and Neil Young, easily outselling them to top the album chart.
Wilson's sophomore disc, All Jacked Up, led the
stampede of newcomers, moving 264,000 copies for the week ended Sunday,
according to Nielsen SoundScan.
This marks Wilson's first
number one on the Billboard 200; Here for the Party, which
featured the mega-hit "Redneck Woman," peaked at number two last year.
Wilson was one of six new Top 10 entries, after two consecutive
weeks that featured seven Top 10 bows. The massive chart turnover
resulted in last week's number one bow, Disturbed's Ten Thousand
Fists, to fall to number eight on 92,000 copies. Paul Wall's The
Peoples Champ, which ruled the charts the week before Disturbed, has
already been pushed way down to 17.
Crow landed the week's
second best bow with Wildflower selling 140,000 copies at number
two. This disc follows up the Grammy-winning singer's 2003 The Very
Best of Sheryl Crow collection, which sold more than 3 million
copies and featured her smash hit cover of Cat Stevens' "The First Cut
Is the Deepest."
Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia, longtime
icons of the Dirty South underground, debuted at three with Most
Known Unknown selling 116,000 discs. The new disc is quickly
becoming a mainstream success thanks to the catchy radio single "Stay
Fly."
Up next were a comeback album and a going-away project.
Braxton's Libra moved 114,000 copies to open at four. It's the
R&B's diva's sixth studio album, but first since 2002's More Than a
Woman. Checking in one slot behind was Lil' Kim's Naked
Truth with 108,000. The rapper rushed to complete the album before
she had to begin her yearlong stint in federal prison for lying to
investigators about a 2001 shooting.
Sean Paul's third
release, Trinity, set new reggae landmarks by opening at number
seven with 107,000 in sales. That ties the highest chart debut and tops
the biggest sales week ever for a reggae artist, besting the mark set
last month by Damian Marley's Welcome to Jamrock, which debuted
with 86,000. Paul's previous album, 2002's Dutty Rock, already
sold over 6 million copies worldwide thanks to four big radio singles.
Trinity's lead single, "We Be Burnin'," just cracked the Top 20
on Billboard's R&B/hip-hop chart.
The Top 10's three
other holdovers were Kanye West's Late Registration at five, Bon
Jovi's Have a Nice Day at nine and the Black Eyed Peas' Monkey
Business at 10.
Neil Young nearly made it three
consecutive weeks of seven Top 10 entries. The classic rocker's latest,
Prairie Wind, blew out 72,000 copies to open at 11 debut.
Checking in at 18 was the Finnish rock band H.I.M., which sold 46,000
copies of Dark Light.
Potty-mouth rockers the
Bloodhound Gang debuted at 24 with Hefty Fine, which sold 36,000
copies. The lead single, "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo," which features
MTV's Bam Margera in the video, created a stir and got pulled from radio
stations once programmers realized the song title's intended
abbreviation.
Wynonna Judd's concert disc Her Story: Scenes
from a Lifetime sold 35,000 copies at 25, while alt-country's Ryan Adams and the Cardinals' Jacksonville City Nights sold 31,000
copies at 33. Rounding out the Top 40 album debuts was the David
Crowder Band's Collision, which crashed into the 39 spot
Other noteworthy chart newcomers included Latin actor-singer
Chayanne's Cautivo at 62, rapper Mack 10's Hustla's
Handbook at 65, Christian rockers Barlowgirl's Another Journal
Entry at 85, Latin metal outfit Ill Nino's One Nation
Underground at 101 and Blackalicious' Craft close behind at
102.
With Martin Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary, No
Direction Home, making its debut on PBS and DVD amid much publicity,
the soundtrack jumped 12 spots to 38. It has sold 142,00 copies to
date.
Here's a recap of last week's Top 10 albums:
1. All Jacked Up, Gretchen Wilson
2. Wildflower,
Sheryl Crow
3. Most Known Unknown, Three 6 Mafia
4.
Libra, Toni Braxton
5. Late Registration, Kanye West
6. Naked Truth, Lil' Kim
7. Trinity, Sean
Paul
8. Ten Thousand Fists, Disturbed
9. Have a
Nice Day, Bon Jovi
10. Monkey Business, Black Eyed
Peas
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