Norah Out-Gunz Rappers

Norah is making quite the Home on the album chart.

Despite solid showings by rappers Kanye West and Young Gunz, Norah Jones remained encamped in the top position for the third straight week. Her sophomore disc, Feels Like Home, finished the week ended Sunday by selling another 280,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers. That puts the jazz singer's three-week tally at 1.7 million copies.

Kanye West, who was unfortunate enough to drop his debut album, The College Dropout, the same day as Jones, spent his third straight week in the number two slot. The rapper-producer finished the week selling another 131,000 copies.

Philadelphia's Young Gunz, who are West's Roc-A-Fella Records labelmates, followed at number three with first week sales of 127,000 for their Tough Luv. The duo, which made waves last year with their Grammy-nominated club hit "Can't Stop, Won't Stop," are currently heating up the airwaves with their new single, "No Better Luv."

Evanescence, who dropped one spot to number four, still had reason to celebrate as their Grammy-winning debut disc, Fallen, celebrated its one-year anniversary on the charts. The album moved another 124,000 copies for the week.

The rest of the Top 10, all holdovers, were: Kenny Chesney's When the Sun Goes Down at five, Josh Groban's Closer at six, OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below at seven, Twista's Kamikaze at eight, Eamon's I Don't Want You Back at nine and The Very Best of Sheryl Crow at 10. Sleeper hit-maker Maroon 5, meanwhile, just missed the Top 10, with Songs About Jane landing at 11.

The split-disc King of Crunk & BME Recordings Present Trillville and Lil Scrappy sold 59,000 to open at number 12, the week's second best bow. Endorsed by "King" Lil' Jon and influential Atlanta indie BME, the album divides up the track listing between the two Dirty South crunksters.

With the Trillville-Scrappy debut, rappers dominated five of the top 12 spots, but proving hip-hop's range, not one of these artists hails from Los Angeles or New York.

While not the sales machine his mate Justin Timberlake became, 'N Sync's JC Chasez opened at 17 with his solo release, Schizophrenic, selling nearly 52,000 copies. Timberlake's Justified, sold 439,000 first-week copies when it debuted 16 months ago.

On the heels of a miraculous box-office take, The Passion of the Christ soundtrack debuted at 19 with nearly 49,000 copies. With churchgoers heading to record stores to buy the soundtrack, several other new Christian albums seemingly benefited. Christian rockers Blindside and Kutless landed at 50 with About a Burning Fire and at 97 with Seas of Faces, respectively, while the Christian pop group Avalon debuted at 104 with Creed.

Other notable debuts this week included Rodney Carringon's Greatest Hits at 112 and Disturbed's Music as a Weapon II at 148.

Meanwhile, over on the singles chart, Beyoncé's "Me, Myself & I" finally overtook the top spot from Eamon's "F**k It," which had held at number one all year. In the wake of his full-length album hitting stores, Eamon's single dropped to number three.

Here are the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday:

1. Feels Like Home, Norah Jones
2. The College Dropout, Kanye West
3. Tough Luv, Young Gunz
4. Fallen, Evanescence
5. When the Sun Goes Down, Kenny Chesney
6. Closer, Josh Groban
7. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, OutKast
8. Kamikaze, Twista
9. I Don't Want You Back, Eamon
10. The Very Best of Sheryl Crow, Sheryl Crow