Darius Rucker's Learn To Live Album Goes No. 1

Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker's debut Country album, Learn to Live, has hit No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. Learn to Live also holds the No. 5 position on Billboard's overall sales chart, The Billboard 200.This milestone comes days after the album's first single, "Don't Think I Don't Think About It," hit No. 1 on the top three major Country Music industry charts.A USA Today feature on Rucker noted that "before this week, only two black singers had topped the Country singles charts: Ray Charles and Charley Pride. . . Charles was the last black artist to have a No. 1 Country single; his 'Seven Spanish Angels' duet with Willie Nelson topped the charts in March 1985. Pride, a Country Music Hall of Famer, had more than two dozen No. 1 hits. His last, 'Night Games,' reached the top slot 25 years ago this week."Rucker said in the feature: "It's awesome, and I can't believe it's happening, but I didn't make the record for that stuff. . . I just wanted to make a record that people wanted to listen to."