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Usher Unseats Avril
Eight is apparently not enough for Usher.
For the ninth time in 11 weeks of release, the R&B crooner's incredibly resilient breakout smash Confessions topped Billboard's album sales chart.
His number one run was temporarily sidelined in early May by the Eminem-led D12 World and again last week by Avril Lavigne's Under My Skin, but Usher keeps coming back. As no formidable chart contender hit stores last week, the stage was set for another Usher-Avril head-to-head, and, yeah, the "Yeah!" singer won out.
For the week ended Sunday, Confessions sold 194,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers released today, while Under My Skin fell to second with 170,000 copies. The original spoiler, D12 World, was at number seven with 68,000 copies.
With his tour back in full swing, Prince's Musicology, which he controversially bundled with ticket sales, jumped a few more spots up to number four. The disc, which spent its initial three weeks at number three when the tour first kicked off, moved 96,000 copies last week, up 25,000.
Hoobastank's sleeper hit The Reason, which celebrated its six-month anniversary on the charts this week, sold another 77,000 copies at six, while Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 15 reentered the Top 10 at nine with 54,000.
Leftovers made up the rest of the Top 10: country ingénue Gretchen Wilson at three with Here for the Party, Slipknot's Vol. 3: Subliminal Verses at five, the Shrek 2 soundtrack at eight and Method Man in the 10 spot with Tical 0: The Prequel.
With no major new releases hitting the record retailers, the top debut came all the way down at number 28: Dino: Essential Dean Martin selling 32,000 discs. The Rat Packer's 30-song collection includes such vintage classics as "Ain't That a Kick in the Head," "That's Amoré" and "Volaré."
For those that know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, Kenny Rogers' 42-song Ultimate Hits was the real deal, with 28,000 fans snapping up copies, good enough for a 39th-place opening. The country-pop singer's double-disc collection includes "The Gambler," "Lucille," "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" and the Dolly Parton duet "Islands in the Stream."
Under the direction of pop mastermind David Foster, actress Renée Olstead's self-titled cracked the charts in its second week of release, landing at 95 with 12,000 copies sold, up from 2,500 copies the week before. Olstead, who stars in the CBS sitcom Still Standing, recently appeared in the Jennifer Garner flick 13 Going on 30.
Rapper Masta Killa wrapped up the new debuts at 136 with No Said selling 8,500 copies.
Meanwhile, over the singles chart, Jessica Simpson's "Take My Breath Away" took over the number one spot with nearly 6,000 copies sold. Accordingly, Beyoncé's "Naughty Girl" fell to number two and Clay Aiken's "Solitaire/The Way," to three.
Though sales were sluggish this past week, the coming weeks will prove more active. Hitting stores yesterday was Velvet Revolver's highly anticipated debut, Contraband, while the Beastie Boys' To the 5 Boroughs hits the bins next week.
To recap, the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday were as follows:
1. Confessions, Usher
2. Under My Skin, Avril Lavigne
3. Here for the Party, Gretchen Wilson
4. Musicology, Prince
5. Vol 3: The Subliminal Verses, Slipknot
6. The Reason, Hoobastank
7. D12 World, D12
8. Shrek 2 soundtrack, various
9. Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 15, various
10. Tical 0: The Prequel, Method Man
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