On this day in 2006, Dierks Bentley’s Long Trip Alone topped the Billboard Country Albums chart, selling 82,000 copies its first week in stores, giving Dierks the best sales week of his career.

Long Trip Alone was Bentley’s third album and produced two number ones, “Every Mile a Memory” and “Free and Easy (Down the Road I Go)”. The album was Certified Gold by the RIAA.