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Dixie Chicks Stay Saddled at No. 1
06/07/2006 7:06 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
For all the fans who ditched the Chicks after they criticized
the
Prez, the rest of the music-buying public is sending a message:
look
away, look away, look away, it's still Dixie Land.
For a second straight week, the Dixie Chicks' first post-Incident
album--Taking the Long Way--ruled the roost at number one. For
the week ended June 4, Long Way held the top spot, selling
another 271,000 copies, according to the latest Nielsen SoundScan
numbers.
This puts the group's two-week tally at 799,000
copies, just a 1,000
copies shy of the Red Hot Chili Peppers'
four-week tally for Stadium
Arcadium, which currently sits at
three and which held the top spot
for the two weeks prior to the
Chicks' debut. Long Way also
marks the Dixie Chicks third
number one debut, which extends the trio's
benchmark as the only
female group with multiple chart-topping bows.
Helping to
keep sales strong, the Dixie Chicks appeared on Larry
King
Live last week while tickets went on sale for the first dates
of
the trio's upcoming Accidents & Accusations Tour, which kicks off
July 21 in Detroit and ends Nov. 11 in Tacoma. Their career ticket
sales already surpass the $100 million mark, making them one of the
world's most popular live acts.
The Dixie Chicks also
benefited from a dearth of new debuts. In fact,
after several weeks
with multiple Top 10 bows, not one new album even
cracked the Top
100. Accordingly, three albums climbed back into the
Top 10: Now
That's What I Call Music! 21 climbed five spots to
six, James
Blunt's Back to Bedlam up 16 to nine and Shakira's
reissued
Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 up three to the ten spot.
(Blunt's giant
jump was spurred by a Today Show performance and
a repeat
broadcast of his Ellen appearance.)
The Top 10
regulars, meanwhile, included the High School Musical
soundtrack at two, Rascal Flatts' Me and My Gang at four,
American Idol Season 5 Encores at five, Tool's 10,000
Days at seven and Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts at eight.
Deep down the charts at 103, Peeping Tom's eponymous debut
led the
newcomers with nearly 10,000 copies sold. The album,
featuring an
immense guest list with such artists as Norah Jones and
Massive Attack,
is the new project from Faith No More and rap-rock
pioneer Mike Patton.
Les Claypool's Of Whales and
Woe followed at 115, as did a pair
of double-disc remix
collections, Vic Latino's ThriveMix02 and
DJ Lil' Cee & Trevor
Simpson's Ultra.Weekend2, respectively, at
125 and 129. Other
notable debuts included Silverstein's 18 Candles:
Early Years
at 148 and Sound of Animals Fighting's Lover, the
Lord Has Left
Us at 183.
Impressively, three albums celebrated
one-year anniversaries on this
week's Billboard 200. Though
Coldplay's X&Y smashed the
Black Eyed Peas' Monkey
Business in first-week sales in June
'05, the pop-rap quartet
finished ahead of the British alt-rockers one
year later. Monkey
Business is currently up six spots to 70 on
3.8 million total
copies sold, while X&Y is down four to 138 on
a 2.9
million-copy tally.
Avenged Sevenfold's City of
Evil is the third album celebrating
its first chart birthday,
currently at 182 with total sales just under
620,000 copies.
Next week, look for a slew of new debuts from artists who
seemingly
thought it devilish to release albums on June 6, 2006, aka
6/6/06.
Among them, AFI and Ice Cube seem to be frontrunners for the
top spot.
The Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday were
as follows:
1. Taking the Long Way, Dixie
Chicks
2. High School Musical soundtrack, various
3. Stadium Arcadium, Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Me and My
Gang, Rascal Flatts
5. American Idol Season Five
Encores, various
6. Now That's What I Call Music! 21,
various
7. 10,000 Days, Tool
8. Some Hearts,
Carrie Underwood
9. Back to Bedlam, James Blunt
10.
Oral Fixation, Vol. 2, Shakira
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