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Fly is the fifth studio album by American country music band Dixie Chicks, released in 1999. The album was very successful for the group, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200. It has received diamond status by the RIAA on June 25, 2002, in the United States, for shipments of 10 million units.[10]

Fly

Studio album by

Dixie Chicks

Released

August 31, 1999

Recorded

March–June 1999

Genre

Country

Length

48:02

Label

Monument

Producer

Blake Chancey
Paul Worley

Dixie Chicks chronology

Wide Open Spaces
(1998)

Fly
(1999)

Home
(2002)

Singles from Fly

"Ready to Run"
Released: June 28, 1999
"Cowboy Take Me Away"
Released: November 8, 1999
"Goodbye Earl"
Released: February 28, 2000
"Cold Day in July"
Released: May 8, 2000
"Without You"
Released: August 9, 2000
"If I Fall You're Going Down with Me"
Released: February 12, 2001
"Heartbreak Town"
Released: June 25, 2001
"Some Days You Gotta Dance"
Released: September 24, 2001

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[3]
Houston Chronicle	[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
PopMatters	8/10[6]
Q	[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[9]

The tracks "Ready to Run", "Cowboy Take Me Away", "Without You", "Goodbye Earl", "Cold Day in July", "Heartbreak Town", "Some Days You Gotta Dance" and "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" were all released as singles; "Sin Wagon" also charted without officially being released. "Some Days You Gotta Dance" was previously recorded by The Ranch, a short-lived country trio founded by Keith Urban in the late 1990s. Urban plays guitar on the Dixie Chicks' rendition.

The album earned four Grammy nominations in 2000, and the group won two: Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for Ready to Run and Best Country Album. It was also nominated for Album of the Year and the writers of Ready to Run, Marcus Hummon and Martie Seidel were nominated for Best Country Song. In 2020, the album was ranked at 224 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.[11]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Ready to Run"	Marcus Hummon Martie Maguire	3:52
2.	"If I Fall You're Going Down with Me"	Matraca Berg Annie Roboff	3:05
3.	"Cowboy Take Me Away"	Hummon Maguire	4:47
4.	"Cold Day in July"	Richard Leigh	5:12
5.	"Goodbye Earl"	Dennis Linde	4:19
6.	"Hello Mr. Heartache"	Mike Henderson John Hadley	3:49
7.	"Don't Waste Your Heart"	Emily Strayer Natalie Maines	2:49
8.	"Sin Wagon"	Maines Strayer Stephony Smith	3:37
9.	"Without You"	Maines Eric Silver	3:32
10.	"Some Days You Gotta Dance"	Troy Johnson Marshall Morgan	2:27
11.	"Hole in My Head"	Jim Lauderdale Buddy Miller	3:22
12.	"Heartbreak Town"	Darrell Scott	3:53*
13.	"Ain't No Thang But a Chicken Wang"		0:01*
14.	"Let Him Fly"	Patty Griffin	3:07
Total length:			48:02

Note

Track 13 is unlisted on the back cover and disc, though it is listed as "Ain't No Thang But a Chicken Wang" in the booklet. On some pressings of the CD, "Heartbreak Town" lasts 3:47 on track 12 and fades into track 13, which plays the last six seconds of the song. On other pressings of the CD, track 12 lasts for the full 3:53 seconds, and track 13 contains no audio, only lasting for 0:01. Digital versions of the album remove the blank track completely, bumping "Let Him Fly" up to track 13.

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes.[12]

Dixie Chicks

Natalie Maines – lead vocals, background vocals, handclapping
Emily Robison – acoustic guitar, banjo, background vocals, dobro, handclapping, lap steel guitar
Martie Seidel – fiddle, viola, background vocals

String section on "Without You"

Strings conducted and arranged by Dennis Burnside.
Violins – Martie Seidel, Carl Gorodetsky, Pamela Sixfin, Lee Larrison, Connie Ellisor, Alan Umstead, David Davidson, Mary Katherine Van Osdale, David Angell, Janet Askey, Karen Winkelman, Cate Myer, Catherine Umstead
Violas – Kris Wilkinson, Jim Grosjean, Gary Van Osdale, Monisa Angell
Cellos – Bob Mason, John Catchings

Additional musicians

Pat Buchanan – electric guitar
Blake Chancey – handclapping
Steve Conn – accordion
Mike Henderson – electric guitar on "Hole in My Head"
Marcus Hummon – acoustic guitar on "Ready to Run"
Dennis Linde – acoustic guitar on "Goodbye Earl"
Lloyd Maines – steel guitar
George Marinelli – electric guitar on "Cold Day in July" & "Hello Mr. Heartache"
Bob Mason – cello
Terry McMillan – percussion
John Mock – concertina, bodhrán, tin whistle
Greg Morrow – drums
Steve Nathan – Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
Tom Roady – percussion
Charlie Robison – handclapping
Matt Rollings – Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards
Randy Scruggs – acoustic guitar
Adam Steinberg – acoustic guitar on "Let Him Fly" & "Without You"
Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar on "Sin Wagon"
Keith Urban – electric guitar on "Some Days You Gotta Dance"
Billy Joe Walker Jr. – acoustic guitar on "Ready to Run" & Without You"
Paul Worley – acoustic guitar, background vocals
"Iffy harmony" vocals on "Goodbye Earl" performed by the "Do-Wrongs": Blake Chancey, Paul Worley, Charlie Robison.

Production

Producers: Blake Chancey, Paul Worley
Engineers: Tony Castle, Mark Martin, Chris Rowe, Clarke Schleicher, Billy Sherrill
Assistant engineer: Tony Castle
Mixing: John Guess, Patrick Murphy
Mastering: Denny Purcell
Assistant mastering engineer: Jonathan Russell
Editing: Tony Castle
Art direction: Tracy Baskette-Fleaner, Bill Johnson
Design: Gina R. Binkley
Photography: Ed Rode, Albert Sanchez
Photo consultant: Dari Marder
Stylist: Renee Fowler
Hair stylists: Jennifer Davis, Alex Dizon, Daniel Erdman, Melanie Shelley, Michael Silva
Make-up: Debra Ferullo, Stacey Martin, Maital Sabbon
Cover lettering from Butterfly Alphabet by Kjell Bloch Sandved.

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
Canadian Country Albums (RPM)	1
Canadian Top Albums (RPM)	6
US Billboard 200[13]	1
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[14]	1

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for *Fly* by Dixie Chicks
Chart (1999)	Position
US Billboard 200[15]	52
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[16]	5
Chart (2000)	Position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[17]	24
US Billboard 200[18]	11
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[19]	1
Chart (2001)	Position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[20]	130
Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[21]	8
US Billboard 200[22]	42
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[23]	5
Chart (2002)	Position
Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen Soundscan)[24]	23
US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[25]	39

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[26]	Platinum	70,000^{^}
Canada (Music Canada)[27]	3× Platinum	300,000^{^}
United Kingdom (BPI)[28]	Gold	100,000
United States (RIAA)[29]	11× Platinum	8,396,000[30]
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Accolades

Grammy Awards

Year	Winner	Category
2000	Fly	Best Country Album
2000	"Ready to Run"	Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal

References

Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Fly – Dixie Chicks". AllMusic. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Christgau, Robert (2000). "Dixie Chicks: Fly". Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s. Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 0-312-24560-2. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Nash, Alanna (September 10, 1999). "Fly". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on July 21, 2018. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Hildebrand, Lee (August 29, 1999). "Dixie Chicks Let Emotions 'Fly'". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Hilburn, Robert (August 29, 1999). "Stand-Up CD From Dixie Chicks; Travis Meeks Aims High". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Zeltner, Mark (October 31, 1999). "Dixie Chicks: Fly". PopMatters. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
"Dixie Chicks: Fly". Q (158): 118. November 1999.
Sheffield, Rob (September 16, 1999). "Dixie Chicks: Fly". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 31, 2008. Retrieved October 8, 2018.
Harris, Keith (2004). "Dixie Chicks". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 245. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
RIAA Bestsellers Archived August 18, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
Rolling Stone (September 22, 2020). "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
Fly (CD booklet). Dixie Chicks. Monument Records. 1999. 69678.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
"Dixie Chicks, TLP". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Dixie Chicks, CLP". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top Country Albums – Year-End 1999". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Canada's Top 200 Albums of 2000". Jam!. Archived from the original on August 12, 2004. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
"Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2000". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top Country Albums – Year-End 2000". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top 200 Albums of 2001 (based on sales)". Jam!. Archived from the original on November 6, 2003. Retrieved March 26, 2022.
"Top 100 country albums of 2001 in Canada". Jam!. Archived from the original on July 1, 2002. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
"Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top Country Albums – Year-End 2001". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"Top 100 country albums of 2002 in Canada". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 4, 2003. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
"Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002". Billboard. Retrieved October 26, 2020.
"ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2003 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association.
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"American album certifications – The Chicks – Fly". Recording Industry Association of America.
Paul Grein (October 30, 2013). "Katy Perry Knocks Miley Cyrus Down a Couple Pegs". Chart Watch. Yahoo.

v t e The Chicks
Natalie Maines Emily Strayer Martie Maguire Laura Lynch Robin Lynn Macy
Studio albums	Thank Heavens for Dale Evans Little Ol' Cowgirl Shouldn't a Told You That Wide Open Spaces Fly Home Taking the Long Way Gaslighter
Compilations	Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks The Essential Dixie Chicks
Singles	"I Can Love You Better" "There's Your Trouble" "Wide Open Spaces" "You Were Mine" "Tonight the Heartache's on Me" "Ready to Run" "Cowboy Take Me Away" "Goodbye Earl" "Cold Day in July" "Without You" "If I Fall You're Going Down with Me" "Heartbreak Town" "Some Days You Gotta Dance" "Long Time Gone" "Landslide" "Travelin' Soldier" "Top of the World" "I Hope" "Not Ready to Make Nice" "Everybody Knows" "The Long Way Around" "Daddy Lessons" "Gaslighter"
Live recordings	An Evening with the Dixie Chicks Top of the World Tour: Live (DVD)
Tours	Fly Tour Top of the World Tour Vote for Change Accidents & Accusations Tour Long Time Gone Tour DCX MMXVI World Tour
Related articles	Discography Awards and nominations 2003 controversy Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing Court Yard Hounds "You Can't Hurry Love" "Sin Wagon" "Roly Poly" "Soon You'll Get Better"
Collaborators	Lloyd Maines David Grissom Dan Wilson

v t e CMA Album of the Year
1967−1970	There Goes My Everything (1967) Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison (1968) Johnny Cash At San Quentin (1969) Okie from Muskogee (1970)
1971-1980	I Won't Mention It Again (1971) Let Me Tell You About a Song (1972) Behind Closed Doors (1973) A Very Special Love Song (1974) A Legend in My Time (1975) Wanted! The Outlaws (1976) Ronnie Milsap Live (1977) It Was Almost Like a Song (1978) The Gambler (1979) Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
1981-1990	I Believe in You (1981) Always on My Mind (1982) The Closer You Get (1983) A Little Good News (1984) Does Fort Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (1985) Lost in the Fifties Tonight (1986) Always And Forever (1987) Born to Boogie (1988) Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Volume Two (1989) Pickin' on Nashville (1990)
1991-2000	No Fences (1991) Ropin' the Wind (1992) I Still Believe in You (1993) Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles (1994) When Fallen Angels Fly (1995) Blue Clear Sky (1996) Carrying Your Love with Me (1997) Everywhere (1998) A Place in the Sun (1999) Fly (2000)
2001-2010	O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001) Drive (2002) American IV: The Man Comes Around (2003) When the Sun Goes Down (2004) There's More Where That Came From (2005) Time Well Wasted (2006) It Just Comes Natural (2007) Troubadour (2008) Fearless (2009) Revolution (2010)
2011-2020	My Kinda Party (2011) Chief (2012) Based on a True Story... (2013) Platinum (2014) Traveller (2015) Mr. Misunderstood (2016) From A Room: Volume 1 (2017) Golden Hour (2018) Girl (2019) What You See Is What You Get (2020) Starting Over (2021)

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Fly — пятый студийный альбом американской кантри-группы Dixie Chicks, вышедший 31 августа 1999 года на лейбле Monument. Продюсерами были Блейк Ченси и Пол Уорли. Диск возглавил общеамериканский хит-парад Billboard 200 (впервые в их карьере), кантри-чарт Top Country Albums (второй их кантри № 1), а также получил премию Грэмми в категории Лучший альбом в стиле кантри. Также диск получил награды Academy of Country Music Awards (Лучший альбом года) и Country Music Association Awards (Альбом года)[2][3].

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