Kenny Chesney, Kellie Pickler Top the Charts

Posted by Carmen Wagster on 10/14/2008
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Kellie Pickler tops this week's Billboard Country Albums chart with her self-titled sophomore album. As for Billboard's Country Songs chart, Kenny Chesney’s “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” took over the No. 1 position.The other Top 5 Country albums are (in descending order) Sugarland’s Love on the Inside, Darius Rucker’s Learn to Live, Taylor Swift’s new self-titled album, and the latest NOW That’s What I Call Country collection.With Kellie Pickler’s album as the new No. 1, some other albums have been shuffled their rankings. Faith Hill’s holiday album, Joy to the World, slipped to No. 6, Craig Morgan’s Greatest Hits now resides at No. 16, and Wade Bowen’s If We Ever Make It Home is at No. 29. Also, Cherryholmes’ Cherryholmes III: Don’t Believe has moved to  No. 48 and Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas is now at No. 62. The other Top 5 Country songs are (again, in descending order) Darius Rucker’s “Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It,” Toby Keith’s “She Never Cried in Front of Me,” Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream” (making its debut in the top 5), and Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long.” Songs that made their first appearance on the songs chart are Jack Ingram’s “That’s a Man," Jessica Simpson’s “Remember That” and John Michael Montgomery’s “Forever." Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” is still climbing the chart, landing at No. 9 this week after only four weeks since its release.