Dixie Chick Feats

The Dixie Chicks continue their reign as the breakthrough act of 1998. Here are some things they have accomplished in the past year:

• Dixie Chicks are the best-selling group of 1998

• Dixie Chicks have become the biggest selling new act of 1998

• Dixie Chicks distinguished themselves as the highest debuting country group in seven years

• Wide Open Spaces is the only country album in 1998 to increase sales for eight consecutive weeks

• Dixie Chicks are the only country act to release a debut album containing three Top 10 singles

• Wide Open Spaces was certified gold in less than five months, faster than any act in Sony Music Nashville history

• Wide Open Spaces has been in the top 20 country album chart since it was released January 27, 1998

• "There's Your Trouble" is the first #1 single in 20 years for Monument!

• "There's Your Trouble" is the first 'triple play' #1 for a new act, hitting the top of Billboard, Radio & Records, and Gavin Charts simultaneously!

• Dixie Chicks have been nominated as the Country Music Association's Group of the Year and for the Horizon Award.

• Wide Open Spaces went platinum faster than any new act in Sony Music Nashville History, making the Dixie Chicks the best selling group in country music of 1998.

• Dixie Chicks received 2 awards from the Country Music Association, one for Vocal Group of the Year and the other for the Horizon Award.

• Their debut album Wide Open Spaces has been certified double platinum for sales in excess of two million units. The album surpassed the double platinum mark nine short months after its release making it the fastest selling debut album by a group in the history of country music.

• The title track from the album, hit the #1 spot on the Billboard country chart.

• Wide Open Spaces moved into the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, making them the only new country act to accomplish this feat in 1998 and the first group to reach the level since 1983.

• Dixie Chicks won two CMA trophies - Horizon Award and Vocal Group - the first time an act has won both categories in the same year.

• Dixie Chicks won Favorite New Artist (Country) at the American Music Awards.

• Dixie Chicks chalked up "Best of '98" honors in a host of national publications such as People, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and USA Today.

• Wide Open Spaces sold more units than all other country groups combined in 1998.

• Wide Open Spaces has sold more than four million units.

• The Chicks are nominated for 3 Grammy Awards.