Rascal Flatts, Toby Keith lead country music charts
On the album chart, Rascal Flatts stayed number one for a second straight week with "Still Feels Good," selling 169,000, a 69-percent drop from the 550,000 of a week ago.
Reba McEntire remained second with "Reba Duets," while Faith Hill debuted in third with "The Hits," selling 69,000 units and Brooks & Dunn debuted in fourth with "Cowboy Town." Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates" was fifth, down two.
Cross Canadian Ragweed debuted in sixth with "Mission California."
On the song chart, Chesney jumped from fifth to second with his second single from his new disc, "Don't Blink." Tim McGraw moved up two to fourth with "If You're Reading This." Rascal Flatts dropped from second to fifth with "Take Me There."
Carrie Underwood was up one to eighth with "So Small," while former number one, "More Than a Memory" by Garth Brooks was up one to ninth.
Taylor Swift jumped into the top 20 with her third single from her self-titled debut disc, "Our Song," at 20th, up 3. Gary Allan moved to 24th, up 3 with "Watching Airplanes," the first single from his upcoming CD. Sugarland was up 4 to 25th with "Stay."
On the overall top 200 album chart, Rascal Flatts slipped to second behind Bruce Springsteen's "Magic." McEntire was 8th, Hill 12th, Brooks & Dunn 13th and Chesney 19th.
More news for Rascal Flatts
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- 03/14/25: Rascal Flatts is "Movin' On" with Clarkson
- 10/01/24: Rascal Flatts returns
- 05/31/24: LeVox goes live
- 08/26/22: LeVox will "Get Down Like That"
- 01/27/22: DeMarcus forms country label, signs Griffin
- 05/21/21: Shelton, Hiatt/Douglas, LeVox release new music
- 06/22/20: Rascal Flatts announces EP for July
CD reviews for Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts' swan song EP grapples with the issues like legacy, time and memory. Right off the bat, "How They Remember You" posits that it's not a question of if, but how we're remembered. After we leave this planet for good, we won't be forgotten. However, we will be remembered, and we'd like to be remembered well. Then again, if one assumes there is no afterlife, does it really even matter? If there is no one to remember you, your legacy is basically a moot point. ...
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Fans looking for those beach cruising jams ...
It's the big things - and sometimes the little things - that make Rascal Flatts' Christmas album "The Greatest Gift of All" stand out. On the macro level, the country vocal trio put a little funk - well, as much funk as three Nashville guys can muster - into "Go Tell It on The Mountain." And then, the cool little bass line introducing "Let It Snow" helps differentiate this act's version from possibly millions of other versions.
Much of "The ...
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