Urban, Swift lead country charts
Thursday, October 22, 2009 – Keith Urban topped the Billboard country song chart for the week ending Oct. 31 with Only You Can Love Me This Way and Taylor Swift's "Fearless" was back atop the album chart going from third to first.
Swift displaced Toby Keith and "America Ride," which fell to second. "The Foundation" from Zac Brown Band moved from sixth to third. Miranda Lambert stayed fourth with "Revolution," and Rosanne Cash placed fifth again with "The List," her covers disc.
Sugarland debuted in 12th with their holiday disc, "Gold And Green." The biggest mover was Love And Theft's "World Wide Open," which jumped from 44 to 29. Dierks Bentley's "Feel That Fire" jumped five to 37.
Urban moved from third to first, switching spots with Chris Young's Getting' You Home). Zac Brown Band was second on the song chart with Toes, up two. Brad Paisley's Welcome to the FutureCowboy Casanova was fifth, up one. The remainder of the top 30 showed very little movement except for George Strait's Twang, which jumped from 34 to 30.
On the overall top 200, Swift was 7th, Keith 12th, Zac Brown Band 14th, Lambert 22nd and Cash 28th.
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