Reba Duets Launches Superstar to New Heights

Reba Duets Launches Superstar to New Heights

Reba Achieves Biggest First Week Sales of Her Career

Obtains #1 Spot on Billboard 200 Chart

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Reba McEntire achieves career milestones with her 31st studio album Reba Duets, which debuted last week with unprecedented sales of more than 300,000 landing her in the top spot on The Billboard 200 chart. This marks the first time McEntire has ever reached the #1 spot on The Billboard 200 (closest was #2 with Read My Mind in 1994) and is her biggest first week album sales to date.

McEntire's prior top first week sales number was 124,000 with It's Your Call in 1992. Reba Duets surpassed this by 176,000.

"I am beyond thrilled to have my biggest sales week ever with my 31st album," exclaimed McEntire. "To get to share it with all my friends on this duets project is icing on the cake!"

"When the consummate superstar gets her creative juices flowing we all look like geniuses," said Luke Lewis, Chairman UMG Nashville. "Great singer + great songs + great guest artists + great producer = great record."

McEntire has achieved 33 #1 hits, won 15 American Music Awards, 12 Academy of Country Music Awards, 7 Country Music Association Awards and 2 Grammy's. As a critically-acclaimed actor, McEntire has been awarded the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for her work on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun and starred in the WB/CW's top-rated sitcom Reba for 6 seasons, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination and a People's Choice Award. Her charity work stretches far and wide and includes Habitat For Humanity, First Book, the Reba Ranch House, the Reba McEntire Center for Rehabilitation and the Reba Mobile Mammography Unit.

For more information on Reba McEntire, contact
Jason Owen at 615.524.7563 or jason.owen@umusic.com,
Regina Stuve at 615.524.7543 or regina.stuve@umusic.com or
Amber Williams at 615.524.7516 or amber.williams@umusic.com

Log on to www.reba.com or www.umgnashville.com

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Source: MCA Nashville

CONTACT: Jason Owen, +1-615-524-7563, jason.owen@umusic.com, Regina
Stuve, +1-615-524-7543, regina.stuve@umusic.com, or Amber Williams,
+1-615-524-7516, amber.williams@umusic.com, all of Universal Music

Web site:

http://www.umgnashville.com/
http://www.reba.com/

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