Rascal Flatts’ highly anticipated new CD Me & My Gang debuted in the #1 position on the Soundscan Top 200 albums chart, making it the highest selling CD across all genres, beating out new releases from Pink and the popular NOW compilation. As the highest selling title in the nation, Rascal Flatts’ new CD also debuted at #1 on Soundscan’s country album chart.

With 721,747 units sold in the first week of release, this places Rascal Flatts in an elite group of artists. Since the inception of Soundscan, only four other country artists (Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Dixie Chicks and Tim McGraw) have scanned 700,000 units or more in their first week of release. In addition, across all genres only 24 acts have debuted at over 700,000 units in the first week of release. With the stellar debut of Rascal Flatts Me And My Gang, the group joins the ranks of Eminem, 50 Cent, U2 and Coldplay.

The band’s previous three albums, Feels Like Today, Melt, and Rascal Flatts, have scanned nearly 9 million units combined. With nearly three quarters of a million units sold in the first week of release, this is the largest first week sales number in Lyric Street Records’ history. Lyric Street Records is a part of the Buena Vista Music Group. The Buena Vista Music Group is the recorded music and music publishing arm of the Walt Disney Company.