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Charts: Rascal Flatts Says Not "Now"
Rascal Flatts' Gang keeps banging away on the competition.
For the third straight week, the county band's Me & My Gang ruled the Billboard 200, this time holding off the hard-charging Now That's What I Call Music! 21. For the week ended Sunday, Gang moved 143,000 copies to Now! 21's 130,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
That brings Me & My Gang's three-week tally to more than 1.2 million. Equally impressive, Rascal Flatts' 2004 smash, Feels Like Today, remains in the Top 40, selling another 20,000 copies at 38. That album's 82-week total is just about 4.1 million copies.
Also in its third week, Now! 21 climbed back to its debut position at number two. Also moving up a notch was the High School Musical soundtrack, climbing to three on 116,000 discs.
No new albums cracked the Top 40. The week's biggest bow belonged to the Dresden Dolls, who sold 19,000 copies of Yes, Virginia to open at 42. The theatrical punk-cabaret duo, who supported Nine Inch Nails on tour last year, tackle everything from sex changes to the existence of Santa Claus on their sophomore disc.
Punk pioneers NOFX, who will co-headline this summer's Warped Tour, debuted at 46 with Wolves in Wolves Clothing, while Drive-By Truckers took the 50 spot with Blessing and a Curse, and the Atlanta duo Da Backwudz, featuring cousins Big Marc and Sho-Nuff, opened at 94 with their rookie rap offering, Wood Work Album.
Despite the dearth of new debuts, there was plenty of action from older discs. Thanks to an appearance on American Idol last week, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Rod Stewart saw two of his discs jump back onto the Billboard 200. His Great American Songbook volumes IV (subtitled Thanks for the Memories) and III (Stardust) were up to 58 and 133, respectively. Meanwhile, the series' first two discs, It Had to Be You and As Time Goes By, rocketed up the catalog sales chart to seven and 16, respectively.
Collectively, the Songbook titles sold more than 36,000 copies for a 253 percent increase from the previous week. In addition to Stewart's performance, contestants performed tracks from the Songbook series on the show.
Released last September, Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day jumped four spots to 69 as the album made radio history. The single "Who Says You Can't Go Home," a duet with Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles, made the Jersey bosy the first rock band ever to have a number one song on the Country chart. Two weeks ago, the song's video earned Bon Jovi and Nettles a CMT trophy for Collaborative Video of the Year.
Finally, Gretchen Wilson's breakthrough debut, Here for the Party, celebrated its 100th week on the charts at 183. To date, the album has sold more than 4.2 million copies, while her sophomore album, All Jacked Up, fell off the charts several weeks ago.
Here's a rundown of the Top 10 albums:
1. Me & My Gang, Rascal Flatts
2. Now That's What I Call Music! 21, various
3. High School Musical soundtrack, various
4. White Trash with Money, Toby Keith
5. King, T.I
6. Reflected: Greatest Hits Vol. 2, Tim McGraw
7. Back to Bedlam, James Blunt
8. Oral Fixation Vol. 2, Shakira
9. Daniel Powter, Daniel Powter
10. I'm Not Dead, Pink
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