Looks like Vince sold well but did not "beat out" Dierks...
(Best I can tell # 17 Regular Chart - not sure if # 2 on Country)
From Billboard:
Diddy Scores First No. 1 Album In Nine Years

October 25, 2006, 11:10 AM ET
Diddy scores his first No. 1 album on The Billboard 200 since 1997 this week with "Press Play." The Bad Boy/Atlantic effort also knocks Lloyd Banks' "Rotten Apple" from the throne on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop chart after only one week. "Press Play" sold 170,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the lowest first-week sum of Diddy's solo career.

Under his previous moniker Puff Daddy, his debut "No Way Out" also topped the 200 with a whopping 561,000 units in 1997. The follow-up, 1999's "Forever" (205,000) and 2001's "The Saga Continues" (186,000) both debuted and peaked at No. 2.

Evanescence's Wind-Up effort "The Open Door" keeps the No. 2 spot warm for a second week with 112,000 copies, a 31% sales decline. Pop youngster JoJo returns to the chart with her sophomore set "The High Road" (Da Family/Blackground) at No. 3. Moving 108,000 units, the set also trumps the No. 4 chart entry of her 2004 self-titled debut.

Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex/LoveSounds," which topped the chart for two weeks earlier this month, jumps up 7-4 with 99,000, an 8% sales increase. Dierks Bentley arrives at No. 5 with "Long Trip Alone" (Capitol Nashville), which also bows at No. 1 on the Top Country Albums chart.

The set shifted 82,000, good enough for his best sales week and Billboard 200 charting position to date; his 2005 release "Modern Day Drifter" began with 75,000 at No. 6. "Long Trip" was previewed by the single "Every Mile a Memory,"
which ascends 3-1 on new Hot Country Songs chart, to be posted tomorrow on Billboard.com.


After entering at the summit of the big chart last week, Rod Stewart's J Records release "Still the Same... Great American Rock Classics of Our Time" falls to No. 6 with 79,000 (-57%). Meanwhile, Hinder's "Extreme Behavior" continues to prosper in its 38th week on the chart, ascending 9-7 with 76,000 and a sales decline of less than 1%.

"American Idol" second season winner Ruben Studdard is back with "The Return" (J) at No. 8 with 71,000 units. His debut set, "Soulful," started at No. 1 in 2003 with 417,000, while the gospel-dominated follow-up "I Need An Angel" began at No. 20 in 2004.

Tony Bennett's "Duets: An American Classic" (RPM/Columbia) falls 5-9 with 68,000, a sales slip of 35%, while the Killers' "Sam's Town" (Island) rounds out the top 10, falling 6-10 with 62,000.

[b]Bentley is not the only country star to enjoy a strong debut this week. Vince Gill impacts the chart with the four-disc album "These Days" (MCA) at No. 17, which sold 42,000 copies. [/b] Other big debuts include Frankie J's "Priceless" at No. 30 (Columbia, 26,000), Aeromsith's "Devil's Got a New Disguise -- The Very Best of Aerosmith" at No. 33 (Columbia, 23,000), Lonestar's "Mountains" at No. 37 (BNA, 22,000), Hi-Tek's "Hi-Teknology, Vol. 2: The Chip" at No. 38 (Babygrande, also 22,000) and Sarah McLachlan's holiday set "Wintersong," at No. 42 (Arista, 20,000).

IMO, it sounds like MCA basically 'blew it' by not burning/releasing enough copies to begin with...42,000 is only a little more than 1/2 of what Dierks sold his first week out, and almost all the stores, including online, are sold out of Vince.

It's #4 on the country album chart. Not bad considering it costs more than a "regular cd". The important thing to watch now is to see that it maintains or increases it's position in the next couple of weeks.

Mary Anne, do you think it will maintain it's position with so many online stores selling out already??? It's definitely concerning me that they didn't appear to make enough copies for the demand of the first week.

No, not bad at all, but I still think that MCA dropped the ball on this by not having enough copies printed up to begin with. MCA should have been watching pre-sale numbers at all the online retailers and making sure they had enough copies printed up in order to keep up with demand. Yes, there are a handful of stores (including online) that still have the CD in stock, but it sounds like they're few and far between. Pre-sales should have given them an idea of what first week demand would be, and they could have printed up more than enough copies where they could get them out to the stores right away...instead, they had to send the last printed copies they had out to Vince's Tour Manager because *they* ran out, along with all the most popular online stores.

I think they could of sold more if it was available....but doubt it would catch Dierks sales....I agree with Mary Anne and others that it sold well for a 4-CD set!

Also, I too think it will sell well over the holidays.

I do believe if this set sells 150,000 by the end of the year (or more) - it will be considered a big success (4 CDs is very rare) and it should have a long life with so many potential singles sent to all sorts of outlets (pop, country, americana, jazz etc.).

I think it will continue to do well and hit those marks/sales....

Also - why does the home page call Vince's latest single "Why Do I". I thought it was "The Reason Why"!

Charlie

Charlie,
I was wondering the same thing - it is "The Reason Why". If those are the latest chart numbers, it made quite a leap on Billboard/R&R.
Here's some more information I found about the album sales.

- - 1 Dierks Bentley/"Long Trip Alone" (82,448)

2 - 2 George Strait/"It Just Comes Natural" (58,931)

1 - 3 Jimmy Buffett/"Take The Weather With You" (54,826)

- - 4 Vince Gill/"These Days" (42,187)

4 - 5 Alan Jackson/"Like Red On A Rose" (37,991)

Oh that is just ridiculous. I sent an email to the fan club email address..hopefully, they will fix the name of the single soon. Has anyone else noticed the typos and mis-spelled words that are in the news on the main page as well as the news emails they send out??? Someone isn't using 'SpellCheck'...

Thanks for the numbers Mary Anne...I still don't think Buffet should be considered "Country" JMHO....in my mind Vince was # 3

I was thinking the same thing, Charlie. I've never thought of Buffet as country. He's done a few songs with country artists, but that doesn't make him country, does it???

Well - Apparently it does...I think Jimmy is "marketing" himself that way now (sending singles to country radio).

I like Jimmy overall (not that I have many of his songs) but the guy sure knows how to market, concerts, books, CD's, restaurants....etc....he has built a huge "empire" and Parrothead following....

That said - still not country in my mind!