Good Times may have helped launch her career, but it was a Good Time album that just ended Janet Jackson's latest chart-topping reign.
One week after Discipline became Janet's first number one album in seven years, Alan Jackson's Good Time gave the country star his fourth number one. Janet—who played Penny on the 1970s sitcom Good Times before breaking into music—slipped to number three behind Jack Johnson's Sleep Through the Static.
For those counting at home, that's three Jacks taking the top three spots.
Alan was tops, with Good Time selling 119,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen SoundScan. Sleep Through the Static sold 92,000 and Discipline, 57,000.
Alan previously topped the Billboard 200 with Drive, Greatest Hits, Vol. II and What I Do in consecutive years from 2002 to 2004. His last two albums, Like Red on a Rose and the gospel covers album Precious Memories, both opened at number four in '06. Though it's his 15th solo album, Good Time is the first that Alan wrote entirely by himself.
SoCal-based Irish-American punks Flogging Molly scored the next best bow just in time for St. Patty's Day, with Float moving 48,000 copies at number four. Though it's the group's fourth studio album, Float is Flogging Molly's first to be recorded in Ireland.
The Black Crowes landed the third and final top 10 debut with their first album in nearly seven years, Warpaint, flying to number five on 46,000 copies. This is the group's highest chart position since The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion topped the charts in 1992.
Warpaint actually benefited from some unusual headlines. Band management issued an angry press release last month after Maxim magazine reviewed and rated the album before it was made available to the press. Several media outlets picked up the story, and Maxim had to come clean and apologize.
Michael McDonald narrowly missed the top 10 as his new Motown tribute album, Soul Speak, sold 28,000 copies at 12. The former Doobie Brother previously released Motown and Motown Two and landed a big hit with "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" after MCI licensed the track for an ad campaign.
Another Jackson, Jackson Browne, opened at 24 as Solo Acoustic, Vol. 2 sold 20,000. The inaugural Solo Acoustic disc, which opened at 55 in '05, was the singer-songwriter's first performance album in nearly three decades.
Other notable debuts included Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks' Real Emotional Trash at 64, Los Tigres del Norte's Raices at 68, Cascada's Perfect Day at 70 and Ashton Shepherd's Sounds So Good at 90.
Overall, sales were down nearly 4 percent from last week and more than 11 percent compared to the same week in '07.
Here's a rundown of the Top 10 albums:
1. Good Time, Alan Jackson
2. Sleep Through the Static, Jack Johnson
3. Discipline, Janet Jackson
4. Float, Flogging Molly
5. Warpaint, Black Crowes
6. New AmErykah, Pt. One: 4th World War, Erykah Badu
7. Little Voice, Sara Bareilles
8. As I Am, Alicia Keys
9. Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift
10. Back to Black, Amy Winehouse