Light the firecrackers. The charts are moving again. At least for this week. Sugarland
vaults into No. 1 on Billboard's country album rankings with the concert recording, Live on the Inside, and
Taylor Swift's "You
Belong With Me" arrives at the top of the country songs chart after a 17-week trek.
Sugarland's first-week sales
total, according to the Nielsen SoundScan report, was just under 76,000 copies.
But wait, there's more! Reba
(as in McEntire, of course) has the week's highest debuting song, "Consider
Me Gone," which rolls in at No. 51.
Gloriana also makes a big splash.
The group's self-titled collection enters the albums list at an inspiring No. 2.
The week's other new CDs are the Zac Brown Band's EP, Live From Bonnaroo (No. 20), Mac
McAnally's Down by the River (No. 56) and Steve Azar's Slide
On Over (No. 57).
In addition to Reba's, the first-time charting songs are Easton Corbin's "A Little More Country
Than That" (No. 56), Mallary Hope's "Love Lives On" (No. 57) and George Strait's
"Twang" (No. 58).
Albums returning to action include the multiple-artist package Country Love Songs (No. 44),
Old Crow Medicine Show's Tennessee Pusher (No. 70), Hank Williams' The Unreleased Recordings: Gospel Keepsakes (No.
73) and Caitlin & Will's self-titled EP (No. 74).
Following
Sugarland and Gloriana in the Top 5 albums bloc are Swift's Fearless, the Zac Brown Band's The Foundation and
the soundtrack to Hannah Montana: The Movie, in that order.
Songs No. 2 through No. 5 are Darius
Rucker's "Alright," Billy
Currington's "People Are Crazy," Jason
Aldean's "Big Green Tractor" and Rascal
Flatts' "Summer Nights."





