'FEELS LIKE TODAY' #1 ON BOTH TOP 200 AND COUNTRY CHARTS

    NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Rascal Flatts' highly anticipated
third album, "Feels Like Today," made a stellar debut scanning an impressive
200,946 its first week in the marketplace.  Released on Tuesday, September
28th, on Lyric Street Records, first-week sales catapulted "Feels Like Today"
into the #1 position on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart for all formats in
addition to the #1 position on the Top Country Albums Chart.  The trio -- Jay
DeMarcus, Gary Levox and Joe Don Rooney -- is the 2nd of just two country
groups to have an album simultaneously debut at #1 on the country and Top 200
charts in the history of SoundScan as well as being the first recording artist
on Lyric Street Records to do so.  "Feels Like Today" achieved an impressive
million-plus units shipped on its first day in the marketplace, and holds the
honor of being the 5th highest country sales debut of 2004.
    In addition to the chart topping success of "Feels Like Today," Rascal
Flatts' two previous albums, "Rascal Flatts," and "Melt," are platinum and
double-platinum respectively.  "Melt," released on October 29, 2002, debuted
at #1 on Billboard's Country Album Sales Chart and #5 on the Top 200 Album
Chart on the same day the super group took home their trophy as 2002's CMA
Horizon winner.  After 101 weeks on the Country Album Sales Chart, "Melt"
album sales remain consistent -- keeping the album in the Top 15.  "Melt,"
produced four hit singles -- "These Days," which was a multi-week #1 across
the board at country radio, and Top-10 singles "Love You Out Loud" and "I
Melt." "Mayberry," the fourth single from the album, was also another #1 hit
for the group.
    Rascal Flatts is the reigning Country Music Association, Academy of
Country Music and ASCAP Vocal Group of the Year. They've enjoyed one of the
fastest and most spectacular rises in recent country music history. No other
country group has obtained this kind of status so quickly or had their second
album go double platinum since the Dixie Chicks.
    Rascal Flatts is currently nominated as Vocal Group of the Year at the
Radio Music Awards (Oct. 25 NBC), CMA Awards (Nov. 9 CBS) and American Music
Awards (Nov. 14 ABC).
    The first single from the album, the title track "Feels Like Today," is
currently a Top 10 hit at country radio.
    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.

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