The Chicks discography explained

Artist:The Chicks
Studio:8
Live:2
Compilation:2
Video:5
Singles:28
Music Videos:16
Option:7
Option Name:No. 1 Singles

The Chicks (formerly known as the Dixie Chicks) are an American country music band composed of Natalie Maines, along with Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, who are sisters. Their discography comprises eight studio albums, two live albums and 28 singles.

Founded in 1989 as a more bluegrass-oriented band with Maguire and Strayer—then going by their birth surnames of Erwin—along with Laura Lynch and Robin Lynn Macy, the band did not achieve mainstream success until Lynch and Macy left and were replaced by lead singer Natalie Maines. Shortly after her joining, the band signed to Monument Records, releasing their breakthrough album Wide Open Spaces in 1998. Both it and its followup, 1999's Fly, earned the group several Grammy Awards and chart singles. Two more albums, Home and Taking the Long Way, followed in 2002 and 2006, respectively, on Columbia Records. These latter four albums have been certified double platinum or higher by the RIAA, with the highest-certified being Wide Open Spaces at 13× Platinum for US shipments of 13 million copies.

Of the Dixie Chicks' 25 singles, six have reached Number One on the Billboard country singles chart: "There's Your Trouble", "Wide Open Spaces", "You Were Mine", "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Without You", and "Travelin' Soldier". A seventh, a version of the Fleetwood Mac song "Landslide", was also a Number One hit on the Adult Contemporary chart. Several of their singles have crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100, with their highest-peaking there being the number 4, "Not Ready to Make Nice".

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US
[1]
US Country
[2]
AUS
[3]
CAN
[4]
FIN
[5]
NOR
[6]
NZ
[7]
SWE
[8]
SWI
[9]
UK
[10]
Thank Heavens for Dale Evans
  • Release date: December 1, 1990
  • Label: Crystal Clear
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Little Ol' Cowgirl
  • Release date: May 1, 1992
  • Label: Crystal Clear
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Shouldn't a Told You That
  • Release date: November 2, 1993
  • Label: Crystal Clear
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Wide Open Spaces
  • Release date: January 27, 1998
  • Label: Monument
  • Formats: CD, cassette
4 1 35 16 29 33 26
Fly
  • Release date: August 27, 1999
  • Label: Monument
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1 1 16 6 38 38
  • RIAA: 11× Platinum
  • ARIA: Platinum[15]
  • BPI: Gold
  • MC: 3× Platinum
Home
  • Release date: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Open Wide/Columbia
  • Formats: CD, vinyl
1 1 4 2 30 39 8 37 26 33
  • RIAA: 6× Platinum
  • ARIA: 4× Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
  • MC: 3× Platinum[16]
Taking the Long Way
  • Release date: May 23, 2006
  • Label: Open Wide/Columbia
  • Formats: CD, vinyl, Digital download
1 1 2 1 12 6 5 1 6 10
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum
  • BPI: Gold
  • MC: 4× Platinum
Gaslighter
  • Released: July 17, 2020[17]
  • Label: Columbia
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital download
3 1 2 3 2 14 5 5
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
US
AUS
NZ
UK
  • Release date: November 23, 2003
  • Label: Open Wide/Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD
3273041194
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: Platinum
DCX MMXVI Live
  • Release date: September 1, 2017
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
4320
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales thresholds)
US Country
US
AUS
CAN
[18]
NZ
Playlist: The Very Best of
Dixie Chicks
  • Release date: June 1, 2010
  • Label: Columbia Records
  • Formats: CD, music download
2711540
The Essential Dixie Chicks 4017916653
  • ARIA: Platinum[19]
  • BPI: Gold
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US
[20]
US
Country

[21]
US
Country
Airplay

[22]
US AC
[23]
US AAA
[24]
AUSCAN
[25]
CAN
Country

[26] [27]
UK
"I Can Love You Better"19977773Wide Open Spaces
"There's Your Trouble"1998361326
"Wide Open Spaces"411941
"You Were Mine"3411
"Tonight the Heartache's on Me"19994664
"Ready to Run"392353 Fly
"Cowboy Take Me Away"2711
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum
"Goodbye Earl"200019135
"Cold Day in July"65107
"Without You"3118
"If I Fall You're Going Down with Me"2001383
"Heartbreak Town"23
"Some Days You Gotta Dance"557
"Long Time Gone"200272Home
"Landslide"7216255
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum[34]
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum
"Travelin' Soldier"251119
  • RIAA: Platinum[35]
  • BPI: Silver
"Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)"200348
"Top of the World"
"I Hope"200554Taking the Long Way
"Not Ready to Make Nice"2006436321831770
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum[36]
  • ARIA: 3× Platinum
  • MC: Platinum
"Everybody Knows"4514
"Voice Inside My Head"[37]
"Easy Silence"[38]
"The Long Way Around"545
"The Neighbor"2007746048
"Gaslighter"202020366931Gaslighter
"Sleep at Night"[39] 333635
"—" denotes a release that did not chart or was not released in that country.

Other charted songs

TitleYearPeak chart positionsCertifications
(sales threshold)
Album
US
US Country
CAN
UK
"Let 'er Rip"199964Wide Open Spaces
"You Can't Hurry Love"60Runaway Bride: Music from the Motion Picture
"Sin Wagon"52Fly
"Roly Poly"
200065
"Travelin' Soldier" [40] 200257
"White Trash Wedding"56Home
"Tortured, Tangled Hearts"58
"Lullaby"2006
  • RIAA: Gold
Taking the Long Way
"Soon You'll Get Better"
201963107154 Lover
"Julianna Calm Down"2020Gaslighter
"March March"[42] 32
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Videography

Video albums

TitleDetailsCertifications
(sales threshold)
An Evening with the Dixie Chicks
  • Release date: December 10, 2002
  • Directed by: Joel Gallen
  • RIAA: 2× Platinum[43]
  • ARIA: 5× Platinum[44]
Top of the World Tour: Live
  • Release date: November 21, 2003
  • Label: Sony BMG
  • RIAA: Platinum
  • ARIA: 7× Platinum[45]
VH1 Storytellers
  • Release date: November 29, 2011
  • Directed by: Dave Diomedi
DCX MMXVI Live
  • Release date: September 1, 2017

Music videos

TitleYearDirector(s)
"I Can Love You Better"1997Chris Rogers
"There's Your Trouble"1998Thom Oliphant
"Wide Open Spaces"
"You Were Mine"Adolfo Doring
"Ready to Run"1999Evan Bernard
"Cowboy Take Me Away"Nancy Bardawil
"Goodbye Earl"2000Evan Bernard
"Without You"Thom Oliphant
"Long Time Gone"2002Marcus Raboy
"Landslide"Jim Gable
"Travelin' Soldier" 2003Joel Gallen
"Top of the World"Sophie Muller
"Sin Wagon" Luis Lopeez
Darrin Roberts
"Not Ready to Make Nice"2006Sophie Muller
"Gaslighter"2020Seanne Farmer
"Sleep at Night"2020
"March March"2020

Guest appearances

YearTitleOther artist(s)Album
1998"Stand by Your Man"A Tribute to Tradition
2006"Shower the People"MusicAres
2008"The Lucky Ones"REDWire
2011"You"Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon RangersRare Bird Alert
2016"Daddy Lessons" (Remix)Beyoncé
2019"Soon You'll Get Better"Taylor SwiftLover

Notes and References

  1. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Billboard 200. Billboard. September 12, 2020.
  2. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Country Albums. Billboard. September 12, 2020.
  3. Web site: australian-charts.com - Australian charts portal: Albums. australian-charts.com. 2010-06-25.
  4. Web site: RPM - Top Albums/CDs. RPM. August 5, 2018.
  5. Web site: Dixie Chicks Albums and Charts. finnishcharts.com. 2010-06-25.
  6. Web site: norwegiancharts.com - Norwegian charts portal: Albums. norwegiancharts.com. 2010-06-25.
  7. Web site: Dixie Chicks Albums and Charts. charts.nz. 2010-06-25.
  8. Web site: Dixie Chicks Albums and Charts. swedishcharts.com. 2010-06-25.
  9. Web site: Dixie Chicks Albums and Charts. hitparade.ch . March 9, 2020.
  10. Web site: Dixie Chicks - Full Official Chart History. . 2020-07-26.
  11. Web site: Gold & Platinum - June 25, 2010: Dixie Chicks certified albums. Recording Industry Association of America. 2010-06-25.
  12. Australia. album. 2020. 28 April 2021.
  13. Web site: British Phonographic Industry search results . . 2010-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130115055129/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx . 2013-01-15 .
  14. Web site: Canadian Recording Industry Association search results . . 2010-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090412081617/http://www.cria.ca/cert_db_search.php . 2009-04-12 .
  15. Australia. album. 2003. 28 April 2021.
  16. Web site: Gold & Platinum Certification – August 2003 . . 2010-08-21 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20101019191103/http://cria.ca/gold/0803_g.php . 2010-10-19 .
  17. Web site: Dixie Chicks reveal new release date for new album 'Gaslighter' . Pitchfork . June 11, 2020 . June 11, 2020 . Strauss, Matthew.
  18. Dixie Chicks Chart History - Canadian Albums. Billboard. August 5, 2018.
  19. Australia. album. 2017. 28 April 2021.
  20. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Hot 100. Billboard. March 10, 2020.
  21. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Country Songs. Billboard. March 10, 2020.
  22. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Country Airplay. Billboard. March 10, 2020.
  23. Web site: Dixie Chicks Chart history: Adult Contemporary . Billboard . April 15, 2020.
  24. Adult Alternative Songs - October 24, 2020. Billboard. 23 November 2020.
  25. Dixie Chicks Chart History: Canadian Hot 100. Billboard. March 17, 2020.
  26. Web site: RPM - Country Singles. RPM. August 5, 2018.
  27. Peak chart positions for country singles of Dixie Chicks in Canada:
  28. Web site: Gold & Platinum - March 5, 20201: "There's Your Trouble" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. March 12, 2020.
  29. Web site: Gold & Platinum - March 5, 2020: "Wide Open Spaces" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. March 12, 2020.
  30. Australia. single. 2020. 28 April 2021.
  31. Web site: Gold & Platinum - March 5, 20201: "You Were Mine" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. March 12, 2020.
  32. Web site: Gold & Platinum - March 5, 20201: "Ready to Run" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. March 12, 2020.
  33. Web site: Gold & Platinum - April 22, 2011: "Goodbye Earl" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. April 22, 2011.
  34. Web site: Gold & Platinum - April 22, 2011: "Landslide" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. April 22, 2011.
  35. Web site: Gold & Platinum - March 5, 20201: "Travelin' Soldier" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. March 12, 2020.
  36. Web site: Gold & Platinum - April 22, 2011: "Not Ready to Make Nice" certified awards. Recording Industry Association of America. April 22, 2011.
  37. Web site: Reviews / Singles . American Radio History . Billboard . March 5, 2020 . 60 . June 24, 2006.
  38. Web site: Dixie Chicks - Easy Silence . Discogs . March 5, 2020.
  39. Web site: Triple A: Future Releases. Allaccess.com. July 9, 2020.
  40. February 16, 2002. Singles Minded. Billboard. 65.
  41. Australia. 2024. single. 18 June 2024.
  42. Web site: Willman. Chris. Dixie Chicks Officially Change Name to 'The Chicks'. June 25, 2020. Variety. 25 June 2020.
  43. United States. Chicks. video. 2010. 28 April 2021.
  44. Australia. video. 2009. 28 April 2021.
  45. Australia. video. 2010. 28 April 2021.