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Coming up with a definitive, inclusive chronology of every recorded vocal due George Jones has ever offered is almost impossible. There are so many that surely something would be left [...]

BEST MAN: Twice is just as nice for Usher as he returns to No. 1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart with 'U Got It Bad.' In July, [...]

MORE THAN POP: At first glance, the sight of pop group 'N Sync on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart may seem a little strange. Its current single, 'Gone' [...]

The Pacesetter honor on Top Country Albums is handed to Rhonda Vincent's The Storm Still Rages (Rounder), which gains 33% and shoots 69-59. Vincent's current tour will follow an ambitious [...]

Tim Rushlow takes Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 56 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks with 'Crazy Life,' a single from his self-titled solo debut set that peaked at [...]

After launching the group's new album onto Top Country Albums at No. 1 and The Billboard 200 at No. 9 last issue, Lonestar shatters its own Broadcast Data Systems-era record [...]

STANDING UPRIGHT: As the title track scores a fourth straight week atop Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Lonestar's I'm Already There (BNA) starts with Hot Shot Debut honors at the [...]

INSTANT CLASSIC: Patty Loveless has charted 41 titles on Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Twenty of those songs peaked in the chart's top 20, including five No. 1 singles. On [...]

YOUNG COUNTRY: Lila McCann posts her second-biggest start on Top Country Albums, as Complete (Warner Bros.) pops on at No. 18 with approximately 10,000 copies sold. The former Asylum artist [...]

NASHVILLE--The late Chet Atkins is being remembered by his friends and fans in the music industry as an innovator whose peerless guitar skills graced countless recordings and whose keen business [...]

As O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury) and Coyote Ugly (Curb) control the top two slots on Top Country Albums again this issue, another soundtrack opens on the chart's midsection. [...]

Unlike the majority of country's current crop of artists, sweating over making a new album every year and loading up the calendar with tour dates isn't exactly at the top [...]

Up approximately 4,000 scans (110%), Chris Cagle's Play It Loud takes the Greatest Gainer trophy on Top Country Albums, where it jumps 36-22, its highest chart position to date. Originally [...]

Willie Nelson places his 72nd title on Top Country Albums, as Rainbow Connection (Island) takes Hot Shot Debut roses at No. 52. The new title comprises classic country and pop [...]

Nashville's annual Fan Fair festival drew more than 25,000 ticket holders this year, and countless others descended upon Music City for related events (see story, page 29). Kicked off by [...]

The aforementioned O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack makes a stellar showing during the film's first week of home video release. It scans more than 71,000 copies and reclaims its [...]

Opening with the second-largest debut-week sales for a disc of new material in her 10-year career, Trisha Yearwood celebrates her first such album to start at No. 1 on Top [...]

Overall, country album sales are down approximately 7% from the prior issue, but Oak Ridge Boys' From the Heart (Spring Hill/EMI) weathers the softer chart with a 10% increase, good [...]

Since his first trip to the top of Hot Country Singles & Tracks seven years ago, Tim McGraw has had the unprecedented distinction of claiming multiple consecutive-week stays atop the [...]

Mary Chapin Carpenter's remarkably introspective and predictably substantive Time* Sex* Love* (Columbia) bows with more than 27,000 units at No. 6 on Top Country Albums, her fourth top 10 debut [...]

If the first few years of the new century are remembered in the country music history books as a time when the genre took a hard left turn onto a [...]

Newcomer Cyndi Thomson controls Top Country Singles Sales with 'What I Really Meant to Say' (Capitol), the lead single from My World, which starts scanning July 31. The retail single [...]

NASHVILLE--Singer/songwriter, instrumentalist, record producer, and folklorist John Hartford died June 4 in a Nashville hospital after a lengthy battle with non-Hodgkins lymphoma. He was 63. Hartford is best known as [...]

Having accumulated 36 chart weeks to date, Gary Allan's 'Right Where I Need to Be' (MCA Nashville) is the oldest title on Hot Country Singles & Tracks. It moves 6-5 [...]

Elsewhere on the upper portion of the radio chart, Tim McGraw's 'Grown Men Don't Cry' (Curb) collects 5,970 spins to bullet for a second week at No. 2. Now in [...]

As Brooks & Dunn's 'There Ain't Nothing 'Bout You' (Arista Nashville) lands a sixth consecutive week atop Hot Country Singles & Tracks, the pair claims country's biggest hit of the [...]

Mark McGuinn's self-titled debut set (VFR), distributed by Red, makes an impressive start, with approximately 13,000 units at No. 18 on Top Country Albums. It is also the top-selling new-artist [...]

The 36th annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, handed out May 9 on CBS, garnered roughly the same viewership as last year but appears to have had a bigger [...]

As Brooks & Dunn's 'Ain't Nothing 'Bout You' claims a fifth week atop Hot Country Singles & Tracks, it officially becomes the duo's biggest chart single to date. It tops [...]

With more than 29,000 copies sold, Billy Gilman's sophomore set, Dare to Dream (Epic), arrives with Hot Shot Debut stripes at No. 6 on Top Country Albums and at No. [...]

For the fifth consecutive week, Lonestar's 'I'm Already There' (BNA) takes the biggest overall increase on Hot Country Singles & Tracks. Up 472 detections this issue, the group's tearful ballad [...]

As predicted in Country Corner last issue, the Driven soundtrack (Curb) takes the Greatest Gainer cup on Top Country Albums, up more than 5,000 scans. The multi-artist set jumps 21-16 [...]

Montgomery Gentry proposes the Hot Shot Debut toast on Top Country Albums with Carrying On (Columbia), which pops on at No. 6 with more than 27,000 copies sold, good enough [...]

FLAMING HOOPS: With Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 1 on Top Country Albums, Tim McGraw's Set This Circus Down (Curb) starts with more than 223,000 scans and opens at [...]

Newcomer Mark McGuixm's 'Mrs. Steven Rudy' (VFR) scans 7,000 units to rule Top Country Singles Sales, a move that pushes LeAnn Rimes' 'But I Do Love You' (Curb) to No. [...]

Charlie Robison gives his Lucky Dog imprint (Sony) its first top 40 entry on Hot Country Singles & Tracks, as 'I Want You Bad' gains 27 detections and jumps 43-40. [...]

As independent labels continue to heighten their profiles on our country charts, the recently opened Dualtone Records introduces Hayseed Dixie, an ephemeral group of unidentified bluegrass/acoustic musicians (Billboard, April 7) [...]

As the album's lead single encores atop Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Brooks & Dumn's Steers & Stripes (Arista/Nashville) arrives with double Hot Shot Debut trophies, at No. 1 on [...]

Following the closing of Giant's Nashville operation, we update label listings this issue for Giant's country titles to reflect their reassignment to Warner Reprise Nashville. Titles by Clay Walker, the [...]

With the Greatest Gainer trophy on Top Country Albums, the LeAnn Rhues-heavy Coyote Ugly (Curb) soundtrack improves more than 17,000 units and pushes O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury) to [...]

As Brooks & Dunn's 'Ain't Nothing 'Bout You' gains 269 detections and hops 3-1 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Arista Nashville boasts the fastest-rising No. 1 single on the [...]

The highly successful O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Mercury) lengthens its stay at No. 1 on Top Country Albums to nine weeks, but the top sales markets are further than [...]

After being honored with Greatest Gainer ink on The Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums last issue, Lee Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance (MCA Nashville) repeats the feat on [...]

Pacesetter honors on Top Country Albums is taken by Anne Murray's What a Wonderful World (Straightway/EMI), which gains 40% and rises 27-17. During the year and a half Murray's set [...]

Now in its fifth week on Top Country Singles Sales, new RCA teen trio 3 of Hearts takes this issue's Hot Shot Debut on Hot Country Singles & Tracks with [...]

Lee Ann Womack's dance card is full these days. She's a featured headliner on the George Strait Country Music Festival this spring, the most-nominated artist at the upcoming Academy of [...]

Sherrie Austin enters Hot Country Singles & Tracks at No. 59 with a fervent remake of Dolly Parton's 1974 classic 'Jolene' (WE/Madacy). Austin's updated version spins at 20 monitored stations, [...]

Setting a new career-high debut on Hot Country Singles & Tracks, Lonestar grabs Hot Shot Debut honors at No. 42 with 'I'm Already There' (BNA), the lead single from a [...]

Faith Hill's Breathe (Warner Bros.) claims the only top five bullet on Top Country Albums, where it finishes at No. 4 with approximately 28,000 scans. Hill's title, the oldest in [...]

Jessica Andrews controls Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the first time, as 'Who I Am' (DreamWorks) gains 71 detections to step 2-1. The 17-year-old Tennessee native was informed of [...]