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Sure, the music snobs here at E! Online prefer Demi Lovato's acid-rock rendition of the Barney theme to anything off her latest CD. But everyone else seems to like Here We Go Again just fine.

The Disneyfied tween queen proved more popular than former American Idol stars Chris Daughtry and Jordin Sparks, debuting at No. 1. It's the first chart-topper for Lovato, whose rookie release, Don't Forget, opened at No. 2.

Speaking of No. 2, that's where Daughtry's Leave This Town is parked this week. Sparks's Battlefield, meanwhile, checked in at No. 7.

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American Idol might need to bring Chris Daughtry back for a belated coronation.

The brooding rocker failed to make it to the winner's circle in season five, but his namesake band is now a two-champ where it counts—on the album charts. Having previously topped the charts with his 2006 eponymous debut, Daughtry repeats the feat this week with Leave This Town selling over 269,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan.

While this gives him bragging rights on the Billboard 200, Daughtry also moved more copies than Michael Jackson's top-seller, Number 1s, giving him the week's undeniable No. 1 album. Jackson's discs are only eligible for the Catalog chart, but he managed to outsell the Billboard 200's No. 1 album each of the previous three weeks.

Who's bad indeed?

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Michael Jackson is still King, but Maxwell and Hannah Montana make for a nice royal court.

Despite big bows from the Brooklyn crooner and the Disney queen, the late King of Pop had the top-selling album in the country for the third straight week, as Number Ones moved another 349,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan, making for a 1.1 million-copy tally for all his titles. This is Jackson's best week so far, both for an individual title and collectively, thanks largely to last week's memorial service coverage and retailers finally getting completely stocked up.

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Michael Jackson may be gone, but fans obviously can't stop 'til they get enough.

The week after his death, Jackson sold a whopping 800,000 albums—double the week earlier—easily outperforming any new pop releases and accounting for the entire Top 10 of the catalog chart.

Number Ones led the way with 339,000 copies, followed by Thriller with 187,000 for the week ended Sunday—the first full week since his June 25 death—according to the stat-meisters at Nielsen SoundScan.

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Michael Jackson's not letting anyone forget who's King.

As mourning fans flocked to record stores, the King of Pop lived up to his title by outselling any living artist. Three of his catalog titles each sold more copies than the No. 1 album on the pop charts.

Number Ones sold 108,000, The Essential Michael Jackson sold 102,000 and Thriller sold 101,000, while the best-selling title on the Billboard 200, the Black Eyed Peas' The E.N.D., managed just 88,000.

It's the first time in history a catalog title has outsold more than a current album.

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Remember how, when the Jonas Brothers' movie underperformed a few months back, everyone was shouting about it being the end of the sibling squad's career.

Well, the doomsayers can suck it (at least for now, more on that later): Those JoBros are No. 1.

For the second time in 10 months, the Disney-backed trio opened on top of the album charts, with their latest, Lines, Vines and Trying Times, selling 247,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan.

While that was easily enough to dominate all comers last week, it wasn't without an asterisk...

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A little "Boom Boom Pow" has gone a long way for the Black Eyed Peas.

With its single dominating the Hot 100 for two months now, it's really no surprise that the hip-hop supergroup's new album, The E.N.D., has debuted at No. 1, a first for will.i.am, Fergie and cohorts.

The E.N.D., the group's first new release in four years, moved more than 304,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen SoundScan.

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It took some Big Whiskey to end Eminem's Relapse.

Dave Matthews Band notched its fifth straight No. 1 with Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King.

DMB dedicated the release to fallen saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who passed away last August and whose nickname was the GrooGrux King.

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Brüno's nearly bare derriere might have (fake) chased Eminem out of the MTV Movie Awards, but getting a face full of thong didn't hurt the real Slim Shady's staying power on the charts.

Eminem has been tirelessly hyping his Relapse for weeks, capped by the staged weekend stunt with Sacha Baron Cohen in which the rapper was the literal butt of the joke.

And all that work is paying off.

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AT&T insists there was no monkeying with the votes. Fox stands by the results. And now, in the ultimate blow to conspiracy theorists who think Adam Lambert was jobbed, fans have voted with their pocketbooks.

Kris Allen really is the champ.

A week after going head-to-head on the surprising American Idol finale, the two singers' battle spilled over to the charts, with Allen's rendition of the Kara DioGuardi-penned victory single "No Boundaries" handily trumping Lambert's.

Allen's rendition, one of five songs the newly crowned Idol placed in Billboard's Hot 100, debuted at No. 11 with 134,000 downloads. Lambert's version fell short selling 36,000 copies at No. 72.

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Eminem just discovered a 13th step to recovery.

Nearly five years since his last studio album, the rehabbed rapper has returned to No. 1 as Relapse sold 608,000 copies, per Nielsen SoundScan, for his fifth straight chart-topper.

The Motown MC last crowned the charts with 2004's Encore and his retrospective Curtain Call: The Hits in 2005.

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Green Day just had a banner three days.

Despite releasing their 21st Century Breakdown last Friday, instead of the traditional Tuesday, the Berkeley punksters managed to overcome the shortened sales window and land the new rock opera on top of the pops.

The Grammy-winning band hit No. 1 in the U.S. with sales of 215,000, per Nielsen SoundScan. The trio's new release also topped the charts in more than a dozen countries, including the U.K., Canada, Japan, Mexico, France and New Zealand.

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