Charts: Turner, Crüe Break Through

Wed., Feb. 9, 2005 1:10 PM PST by David Jenison

Apparently the Super Bowl wasn't the only big game last week.

Compton rapper the Game returned to number one with The Documentary a week after being displaced by country star Kenny Chesney's Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair. For the week ended Sunday, The Documentary made its chart-topping comeback by selling 190,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

But Compton wasn't the only comeback in the house. Tina Turner, benefiting from appearances on Oprah, Today, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Ellen DeGeneres Show and CBS' The Early Show, landed the week's best bow at number two as All the Best sold 121,000 copies.

Turner's new hits two-disc anthology, spanning her stint with ex-husband Ike to her Private Dancer days, is her highest ever debut on the Billboard 200 pop chart. Her lead single, "Open Arms," one of three new tracks on the album, is in the Top 20 on the Adult Contemporary chart.

All the Best also got a big boost from java junkies. The disc is the second major album carried by Starbucks, which became a major music player with Ray Charles' multiplatinum Genius Loves Company.

Another group of comeback kids, M?tley Cr?e, nabbed a number six debut with their own anthology, Red, White & Cr?e, selling 90,000 copies. The three new tracks mark the reunited band's first new music in seven years, while the disc itself marks the band's seventh Top 10 debut. Back in 1989, the group scored its only number one bow with Dr. Feelgood.

With a new single at radio, "If I Die Tomorrow," the rockers launch their Better Live Than Dead tour on Feb. 17 in Fort Lauderdale.

The week's final Top 10 entry belonged to the Grammy Nominations 2005 compilation, featuring Black Eyed Peas, Green Day and Alicia Keys. The disc sold 78,000 copies at number eight.

The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers: Green Day's American Idiot at three, Chesney's Be As You Areat four, John Legend's Get Lifted at five, Eminem's Encore at seven, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz's Crunk Juice at nine and Usher's Confessions in the 10 spot.

With the Ray DVD hitting retail stores, the new companion disc More Music from Ray debuted at 46, selling 25,000 first-week copies. Likewise, the original Ray soundtrack jumped 27 spots to 26, while Genius Loves Company leapt 11 to 24.

Other noteworthy debuts included Sigue La Mata's Montez De Durango at 34, D.O.D.'s Do Or Die at 40, Unwritten Law's Here's to the Mourning at 51, and Joe Cocker's Heart & Soul at 61.

Finally, Grammy nominee Norah Jones' current album, Feels Like Home, celebrated its one-year anniversary on the charts this week at number 81. Her previous disc, Come Away With Me, spent more than 2 1/2 years on the charts before finally dropping off a few months ago.

Next week, expect sales spikes from Super Bowl and Grammy performers.

Here's a recap of the Top 10 for the week ended Sunday, based on sales data by Nielsen SoundScan:

1. The Documentary, The Game
2. All The Best, Tina Turner
3. American Idiot, Green Day
4. Be As You Are: Songs from an Old Blue Chair, Kenny Chesney
5. Get Lifted, John Legend
6. Red, White & Cr?e, M?tley Cr?e
7. Encore, Eminem
8. 2005 Grammy Nominations, various
9. Crunk Juice, Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz
10. Confessions, Usher