Charts: Nothing but Norah
She may be a rookie, but Norah Jones is still jazzing up the charts like a seasoned pro.
The newbie jazz songbird, whose Come Away with Me entered the charts last February, has stretched her number one run to three straight weeks. Over the past year, Jones cracked the Top 10 a handful of times, but it was her multiple Grammy Award nominations that helped put her over the top.
Jones held the top spot for the week ended Sunday, selling 112,000 copies of her debut disc, according to SoundScan data. She was the week's only six-figure seller.
Last week's top debut, the Chicago soundtrack, jumped two spots to number two as the Golden Globe-winning film hit more theaters. The resulting 9,000-copy spike brought the soundtrack's weekly sales to nearly 92,000 copies.
With Chicago moving up, both Avril Lavigne's Let Go and the Dixie Chicks' Home dropped a spot, landing at three and four, respectively. Jennifer Lopez's This Is Me...Then rounded out the top five.
If there's an award for comeback albums, Kid Rock's Cocky takes the prize as it reentered the Top 10 at number seven a full 62 weeks after its release. Cocky originally opened at number seven in November of 2001, but the album immediately fell off and had been considered a disappointment. Now, more than a year later, its single "Picture" has given Cocky new life. Though the original song features Sheryl Crow, Universal South Records has released a country version of "Picture" with Allison Moorer that's held the number one spot on the commercial singles chart for three straight weeks.
The rest of the Top 10, all familiar faces, consisted of the 8 Mile soundtrack at six, Missy Elliott's Under Construction at eight, Aaliyah's I Care 4 U at nine and Ja Rule's The Last Temptation at 10.
Just missing a Top 10 return, Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless landed at number 11, jumping 14 spots in the last two weeks.
The week's top debuts start way down at number 49 with rookie R&B singer Solange selling 18,000 copies of Solo Star. Unfortunately, those who try to Google Solange will learn that there's also a classic adult film star by the same name, so here's hoping parents have those Web filters working. Elsewhere, Mannheim Steamroller opened at 72 with Romantic Melodies, and Yanni's Ultimate Yanni (not to be confused with the Very Best of Yanni released three years ago) landed at 74.
San Diego punk rockers Unwritten Law scored the final debut spot at 134, selling some 7,000 copies of From Music in High Places. Unwritten Law's latest marks a big departure as the group evolves from punk to a more acoustic-driven pop-rock. Despite having its share of radio hits, Unwritten Law has also bounced around the biz and is now on its third major label in four albums--the latest disc in from Atlantic, previous releases were issued by Interscope and Epic Records.
Finally, the biggest jump of the week belonged to a Christian album, Worship Together: I Could Sing of Your Love. The album, which debuted at 103 last week, jumped all the way to number 39 this week. Maybe MTV isn't everything, after all.
To recap, the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday were:
1. Come Away with Me, Norah Jones
2. Chicago soundtrack, various
3. Let Go, Avril Lavigne
4. Home, Dixie Chicks
5. This Is Me...Then, Jennifer Lopez
6. 8 Mile soundtrack, various
7. Cocky, Kid Rock
8. Under Construction, Missy Elliott
9. I Care 4 U, Aaliyah
10. The Last Temptation, Ja Rule





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