Harry Krause wrote:
NEW YORK, May 31 -- As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard
Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week's sales of
525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart
history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record the Chicks
established in 2002 when the group's last studio album, Home, debuted at
#1 and made them the first female group ever to have two albums debut at #1.

With the #1 debut of Taking The Long Way, the Dixie Chicks have also
become the first female group in chart history to have three studio
albums occupy the #1 slot on the Top 200.

Taking The Long Way has achieved one of the year's Top 5 first week's
sales tallies and has the best first week's sales for any female act on
the Top 200 in 2006.

In addition to its chart-topping success in America, Taking The Long Way
has just debuted at #2 in Australia.

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Good things can happen when you leave the rednecks behind.

Yeah, they're good, and they've been kicked around by the hillbillies
because they actually have brains and don't lock step to the party.