Wide Open Spaces (album)

Wide Open Spaces
Studio album by
Dixie Chicks
ReleasedJanuary 27, 1998 (1998-01-27)[1]
GenreCountry
Length43:39
LabelMonument
Producer
Dixie Chicks chronology
Shouldn't a Told You That
(1993) 		Wide Open Spaces
(1998) 		Fly
(1999)
Singles from Wide Open Spaces
  1. "I Can Love You Better"
    Released: October 27, 1997
  2. "There's Your Trouble"
    Released: March 30, 1998
  3. "Wide Open Spaces"
    Released: August 17, 1998
  4. "You Were Mine"
    Released: December 7, 1998
  5. "Tonight the Heartache's on Me"
    Released: April 12, 1999

Wide Open Spaces is the fourth studio album and the major label debut of American country music band Dixie Chicks. It was their first record with new lead vocalist Natalie Maines, and became their breakthrough commercial success. It received diamond status by the RIAA on February 20, 2003, in the United States, having shipped 13 million units worldwide,[2] while spending more than six years in the Australian ARIA music charts Country Top 20.

"Once You've Loved Somebody" had previously been recorded by John & Audrey Wiggins on their 1996 album, The Dream.

Wide Open Spaces, as well as their next albums Fly (1999) and Home (2002), were released in the HDCD format.

In 2024, the album was selected for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3]

  1. ^ Official Dixie Chicks Site Archived June 12, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ RIAA Diamond Awards Archived July 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ "The Notorious B.I.G., The Chicks, Green Day & More Selected for National Recording Registry (Full List)". Billboard. 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-16.