Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks
{{Infobox album
| name = Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks
| type = Greatest Hits
| artist = Dixie Chicks
| cover = Playlistdixiechicks.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|2010|06|1}}
| recorded = 1997–2006
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Country, bluegrass, country pop, alternative country
| length = 48:03
| label = Legacy, Columbia Nashville
| producer =
| prev_title = Taking the Long Way
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = The Essential Dixie Chicks
| next_year = 2010
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = Allmusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0001987060|pure_url=yes}}|title=Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|authorlink=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|work=Allmusic|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}
|rev2 = Roughstock
}}
Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks is the greatest hits album from American country band the Dixie Chicks. The album consists of twelve songs personally selected by the Dixie Chicks from their fourth through seventh studio albums.{{cite news|title=Dixie Chicks' Playlist Offers Remastered Versions of Hits, Fan Favorites|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1640459/dixie-chicks-playlist-offers-remastered-versions-of-hits-fan-favorites.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100604020536/http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1640459/dixie-chicks-playlist-offers-remastered-versions-of-hits-fan-favorites.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 4, 2010|accessdate=August 31, 2012|newspaper=Country Music Television|date=June 1, 2010}} It was released in the United States on June 1, 2010.{{cite news|title=Dixie Chicks Releasing Playlist of Favorite Songs on June 1|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1636030/dixie-chicks-releasing-playlist-of-favorite-songs-on-june-1.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100417142215/http://www.cmt.com/news/news-in-brief/1636030/dixie-chicks-releasing-playlist-of-favorite-songs-on-june-1.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2010|accessdate=August 31, 2012|newspaper=Country Music Television|date=April 13, 2010}} The group supported the album by touring with The Eagles in 2010.{{cite news|url=http://dixiechicks.com/06_pressDetail.asp?newsID=687|title=Legacy Recordings Announces The Release of Playlist: The Very Best Of Dixie Chicks|date=2010-04-12|accessdate=2010-05-06|publisher=dixiechicks.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710140358/http://dixiechicks.com/06_pressDetail.asp?newsID=687|archivedate=2011-07-10}}{{cite web |url=http://www.legacyrecordings.com/music/dixie-chicks/playlist--the-very-best-of-the-dixie-chicks |title=Dixie Chicks Music | Playlist: The Very Best Of The Dixie Chicks |publisher=LegacyRecordings.com |accessdate=2012-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224073114/http://www.legacyrecordings.com/music/dixie-chicks/playlist--the-very-best-of-the-dixie-chicks |archivedate=2012-02-24 }} It is a part of Sony BMG's Playlist series. It was also re-released on Sony's midprice sub-label Camden entitled Wide Open Spaces: The Collection in 2012.
Critical reception
Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks received four stars out of five from Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic. Erlewine wrote that "the tracks are sharply selected, making for a good, representative compilation if not quite a definitive one." Matt Bjorke of Roughstock gave the compilation three and a half stars out of five, calling it "a great representation of who they are as artists" while adding "it will also have to serve as a placeholder for chicks fans until their label does eventually get around to releasing a career-spanning ‘greatest hits’ record."
Track listing
{{track listing
| extra_column = Original Album
| title1 = Wide Open Spaces
| writer1 = Susan Gibson
| length1 = 3:43
| extra1 = 1998 - Wide Open Spaces
| title2 = You Were Mine
| writer2 = Emily Robison, Martie Maguire
| length2 = 3:37
| extra2 = 1998 - Wide Open Spaces
| title3 = Sin Wagon
| writer3 = Natalie Maines, Emily Robison, Stephony Smith
| length3 = 3:37
| extra3 = 1999 - Fly
| title4 = Cowboy Take Me Away
| writer4 = Maguire, Marcus Hummon
| length4 = 4:47
| extra4 = 1999 - Fly
| title5 = Let Him Fly
| writer5 = Patty Griffin
| length5 = 3:08
| extra5 = 1999 - Fly
| title6 = Long Time Gone
| writer6 = Darrell Scott
| length6 = 4:07
| extra6 = 2002 - Home
| title7 = Landslide
| writer7 = Stevie Nicks
| length7 = 3:48
| extra7 = 2002 - Home
| title8 = Truth No. 2
| writer8 = Griffin
| length8 = 4:27
| extra8 = 2002 - Home
| title9 = The Long Way Around
| writer9 = Maguire, Maines, Robison, Dan Wilson
| length9 = 4:33
| extra9 = 2006 - Taking the Long Way
| title10= Easy Silence
| writer10 = Maguire, Maines, Robison, Wilson
| length10 = 4:02
| extra10 = 2006 - Taking the Long Way
| title11 = Not Ready to Make Nice
| writer11 = Maguire, Maines, Robison, Wilson
| length11 = 3:58
| extra11 = 2006 - Taking the Long Way
| title12 = Lubbock or Leave It
| writer12 = Mike Campbell, Maguire, Maines, Robison
| length12 = 3:54
| extra12 = 2006 - Taking the Long Way
}}
Chart performance
Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks peaked at number 27 on the U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums chart the week of June 19, 2010 and number 165 on the Billboard 200.{{cite web|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=dixie chicks|chart=all}}|title=Chart listing for Playlist: The Very Best of Dixie Chicks|work=Billboard|accessdate=August 31, 2012}}
| class="wikitable" |
| Chart (2010)
!Peak |
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| U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums
| style="text-align:center;"|27 |
| U.S. Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center;"|115 |
References
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Category:The Chicks compilation albums
Category:2010 compilation albums