By Wade Jessen

Leavin’ on your mind: Her sassy kiss-off song “Bye, Bye” has Jo Dee Messina knee-deep in bullets on five Billboard charts, including Top Country Albums, where I’m Alright bows at No. 8 as Hot Shot Debut with more than 15,000 scans, while entering The Billboard 200 at No. 79. Up more than 4,000 unites, the aforementioned lead single from that set also has the heftiest increase on Top Country Singles Sales, where it bullets at No. 3.

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It’s obvious that radio support for ‘Bye, Bye’ is the driving force behind the big debut, and the [commercial] single gave us our earliest clue about how the album would do,” says Benson Curb, sales VP for the Curb Music Group. “Jo Dee did a huge show in Atlanta the night before street date, and Blockbuster’s on-site autograph party after [the show] made a big splash down there.”

On Hot Country Singles & Tracks, “Bye, Bye” gains 60 spins to jump 9-6, with play detected at 161 monitored country signals. Airplay leaders include WYCD Detroit (49 plays), WGRL Indianapolis (47 plays), WSTH Columbus, Ga. (47 plays), and KYNG Dallas (46 plays). In its fourth week on the Hot 100, “Bye, Bye” rises 57-50.