Chicks at Home on Top
These chicks clearly like it on top.
The Dixie Chicks stretched their roost-ruling run to a third straight week as Home remained unchallenged on the pop chart. Though selling a fraction of their record-setting first-week numbers, the Chicks still commanded a solid lead of 91,000 copies over its closest competition.
For the week ended Sunday, Home held the top spot with 214,000 copies, according to SoundScan numbers.
Strong sales for the Texas trio's latest smash should continue as the group just released a new music video for their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide."
A chick (pardon our political incorrectness) also held down number two: Avril Lavigne leapt over Eminem to secure her highest chart position yet for Let Go. Lavigne sold 123,000 copies, just 1,000 copies more than third-place finisher The Eminem Show and 2,000 more than Nelly's Nellyville at four.
In a very slow September 11 anniversary week, no other albums even cracked six-figure sales. However, Toby Keith's Taliban-thrashing single "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" received renewed play last week, helping the country crooner's Unleashed re-enter the Top 10 at number five. The rest of the Top 10 included all familiar faces: Bruce Springsteen's The Rising at six, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me at seven, Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head at eight, Clipse's Lord Willin' at nine and James Taylor's October Road at 10.
Nashville's Alan Jackson also picked up additional play for his 9-11-themed "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)," which helped his Drive make the largest leap on the charts, climbing 57 spots to number 16 in the past two weeks. Jackson also benefits from his recent record-setting 10 Country Music Award nominations.
Overall, the September 11 anniversary week boosted both country and Christian acts, both of which genres made extra efforts to address the tragedy in song. Christian gospel legend Bill Gaither led the week's top debuts with two separate double-disc releases, Let Freedom Ring and God Bless America, opening at 15 and 19, respectively. The albums were recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall. Likewise, Gaither's previous release, the Gaither Vocal Band's Everything Good, also benefited with a 34-spot jump to 149.
Other Christian artists also impacted the charts: Fred Hammond's Speak Those Things: Pol, Chapter 3 at 39, singer-songwriter Bebo Norman's Myself When I Am Real at 114 and Chris Tomlin's Not to Us at 162.
Country singer Rebecca Howard had the week's third-best open with Forgive, which sold 26,000 copies to land at 31. Indie folk-rocker Ani DiFranco followed at 34 with her own double-disc live album, So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter. And country singer Aaron Tippin debuted at 63 with Stars & Stripes.
Daniel Rodriguez, a New York police officer on duty during the World Trade Center attacks, debuted at 141 with his debut full-length album Spirit of America. Rodriquez first took the national spotlight after singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Yankee Stadium.
Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums for the week ended September 15:
1. Home, Dixie Chicks
2. Let Go, Avril Lavigne
3. The Eminem Show, Eminem
4. Nellyville, Nelly
5. Unleashed, Toby Keith
6. The Rising, Bruce Springsteen
7. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
8. A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay
9. Lord Willin', Clipse
10. October Road, James Taylor
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