Chart Roundup: Christina Aguilera, Obie Trice, 'Snakes On A Plane'

• Shocker: Christina Aguilera's reinvention continues to go well in this, her first week on the charts with new record Back to Basics. The album sold 341,988 copies, and claimed the Number One spot.

• Obie Trice's Second Round's On Me sold an impressive 73,850 copies in its first week on the charts, securing the Number Eight spot.

• We loved Snakes on a Plane, but the anti-climax is seriously here. Not only did the movie not do that well at the box office, but the soundtrack debuted at a kinda blah Number 43 on the charts, selling 18,523 copies in its first week on the charts.

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Song Stories

“(We're Not) The Jet Set”

George Jones and Tammy Wynette | 1973

George Jones and Tammy Wynette were still married when they recorded the tongue-in-cheek "(We're Not) The Jet Set." The lyrics, written by Nashville songwriter Bobby Braddock, who also penned Wynette's "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" and Jones' "He Stopped Loving Her Today," make fun of the good life by declaring, "We're not the Jet Set/We're the old Chevrolet set." Braddock recalled that while writing the song, he needed the name of a city that evened out the rhyme he had with "Riviera" and "Missourah." “I got out a Rand McNally atlas," he said. "In the first part are the maps. The last part is an alphabetical listing of cities. I wanted a rustic, small-time sound. I went to the listing for Missouri. And I found 'Festus.' I loved the sound of it."

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