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The Dixie Chicks Find A 'Home' Atop The Album Chart

09/04/2002

The Dixie Chicks' third album, Home, debuts on top of the Billboard 200 this week after selling nearly 780,000 copies, marking the highest opening-week sales of any female group in the Soundscan era. Home also achieved the highest first-week sales of any album in Columbia Records history.

In addition, Home set the record for the greatest first-week sales for any female country artist and any country group, breaking the Dixie Chicks' own previously held record in both categories. The last Dixie Chicks album, Fly, debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 in September of 1999 with first week sales of more than 341,000 copies. The Dixie Chicks are now the only country group and the only female group in the Soundscan era to have had two Number One debuts on the Billboard 200.

Meanwhile, Eminem's The Eminem Show is at Number Two, Avril Lavigne's Let Go is at Number Three, and Nelly's Nellyville is at Number Four. Coldplay scores the second highest debut of the week with its second album, A Rush Of Blood To The Head, which lands at Number Five on sales of nearly 141,000 units.

Eve's Eve-olution bows at Number Six after selling some 123,000 copies. Bruce Springsteen's The Rising is at Number Seven, and James Taylor's October Road is at Number Eight. Rounding out the top are Clipse's debut album, Lord Willin', at Number Nine, and Now That's What I Call Music, Volume 10--featuring tracks from Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, and Lenny Kravitz, among others--at Number 10.

Other debuts this week include Lil' Flip's Undaground Legend at Number 12, Trina's Diamond Princess at Number 14, Queens Of The Stone Age's Songs For The Deaf at Number 17, BBMak's Into Your Head at Number 25, and Montgomery Gentry's My Town at Number 26.

-- Jason Gelman, New York





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