Dixie Chicks return to No. 1 on charts
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The Dixie Chicks appear to be more popular than the president these days. President Bush&#039;s approval rating has plummeted, but the Chicks are on top of the pop and country charts with their first album since publicly criticizing Bush three years ago.
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In yet another week where no album  sold more than 100,000 copies, former "American Idol" finalist  Chris Daughtry flip-flopped with Norah Jones to reclaim the top  spot on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday.
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The top-selling female  recording artists of all time, Dixie Chicks proved to be more  than just a bunch of pretty voices when comments during a  London gig made by lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003 at the  outset of the war in Iraq touched off a nasty anti-Chicks  backlash.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - The past 12 months have been particularly good for one Canadian rock band, three Nashville upstarts, a once-imprisoned southern rapper and an R&B diva in the throes of a major comeback.
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Singer Adele's debut album 19 goes straight to the top of the chart in its first week.
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After rocketing from No. 42 to the  top of the chart last week, Rihanna&#39;s &quot;Umbrella&quot; begins a  second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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After painfully slow sales last month, the music industry finally has a hit: âSleep Through the Staticâ (Brushfire), by Jack Johnson, above, sold 375,000 copies last week â more than six times the sales of the top album the week before â to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It set a record for the most digital sales in a single week, with 139,000 copies, or 37 percent of its total, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In a week busy with high-profile releases, Sheryl Crowâs âDetoursâ (A&M) opened at No. 2 with 92,000 sales; Lenny Kravitz moved 73,000 copies of âIt Is Time for a Love Revolutionâ (Virgin) to bow at No. 4; and K. D. Lang is No. 8 with her new âWatershedâ (Nonesuch), selling 41,000. Last weekâs No. 1, Alicia Keysâs âAs I Amâ (J), dropped two spots with 80,000. Any sales bumps after last Sundayâs Grammy Awards would be reflected in next weekâs chart.
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A spiffed up version of Usher's "Confessions" and new releases by country mainstay George Strait and rock acts Good Charlotte and Korn took over the top four slots on the U.S. pop albums chart, according to sales data issued Wednesday.
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Country-pop trio the Dixie Chicks,  still feeling a backlash for criticizing President George W.  Bush, have been forced to mostly abandon the American heartland  and Deep South on their latest tour.
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Rapper Nelly takes both the number one and two spot in the US album charts.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - In yet another big week for new   releases on the U.S. albums chart, the MTV-constructed band   Danity Kane trumped hip-hop duo OutKast to take the top spot,   while Paris Hilton scored the highest debut for a new solo   female pop artist this year with a No. 6 entry.
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Country star Tim McGraw lived it up on top of the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week Wednesday, while Ray Charles, Jill Scott and LL Cool J entered the pop albums chart in the next three spots.
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After spending the last few years  out of the public eye, soul singer Angie Stone returns to the  charts in a big way this week with "The Art of Love & War,"  which debuts at a career-best No. 11 on the Billboard 200.
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The Traveling Wilburys return to the charts as they score a No 1 with a greatest hits collection.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - California rock band Incubus earned its first No. 1 album on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, though sales were less than half those of its previous release.
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Pop-punk band Green Day scored its first No. 1 album on the US pop charts on Wednesday with &quot;American Idiot,&quot; the group&#39;s fifth studio set and its first release in four years.
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Jazz singer/pianist Norah Jones' first album in three years opened at No. 1 on the U.S. pop charts Wednesday, but its first-week sales were less than half those of its predecessor, according to Billboard.