![]() ![]() 1 with her best SoundScan week, country’s top-shelf artists are showing a greater evaporation from their previous heights than we’ve seen with this year’s biggest rappers. Rap albums have declined more in recent years than country, but you wouldn’t guess that if you compared starts by each genre’s biggest stars.Īside from last week’s chart queen, Reba McEntire, who started at No. That marked last year’s best sales week by any album, and the title went on to be the second-best seller of 2006, topped only by another Disney Music Group set, the soundtrack to “High School Musical.”Ĭompare how Flatts’ sales shifted from one album to the next with some of this year’s best-selling rap albums, and that brain teaser comes into play. ![]() ![]() The act that owned the largest frame of 2006 now owns the best country week thus far of 2007, because Rascal Flatts’ “Still Feels Good” opens with 547,000 copies.įirst-week sales for Flatts’ new album are down 24.3 percent from the 722,000 first-week sales that greeted the group’s “Me and My Gang” in April 2006. As Rascal Flatts becomes just the second country group, after Dixie Chicks, to start two different albums with Nielsen SoundScan weeks above the half-million-unit mark, the batch of major releases that has rolled out during the past few weeks unravels a brain teaser. Rascal Flatts members Jay DeMarcus (L), Gary LeVox (C) and Joe Don Rooney perform "Hotel California" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles February 11, 2007. ![]()
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