How Hot Is Country?: While music sales overall are down 5%...Country as a genre is UP 5%. Much of that increase is fueled by the crossover success of Rascal Flatts who have one of the top selling CD of all genres for 2006 in Me and My Gang, selling over 3 million copies. To read more, check out this article:

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