![]() This week’s Top Ten: Alicia Keys’ The Diary of Alicia Keys Toby Keith’s Shock N Y’all Josh Groban’s Closer Now That’s What I Call Music! 14 OutKast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below Hilary Duff’s So Yesterday Britney Spears’ In the Zone No Doubt’s Singles Collection Sheryl Crow’s Very Best of Sheryl Crow and Jay-Z’s The Black Album. And Musiq’s Soulstar has a longshot’s chance, though it will likely need to do even better than his last record, Juslisen, which scored a Number One debut a year ago, with sales of 260,000. ![]() ![]() Five of Keys hit singles went multi-platinum, while two went. Keys’ Best R&B Album winner Girl on Fire makes it to platinum status. American Idol-winner Ruben Studdard looks to post strong sales for his solo debut, Soulful. Keys’ sophomore album The Diary of Alicia Keys hits certified sales of five-times platinum.Her record-breaking 2007 album As I Am reaches the four-times platinum mark, while its follow-up The Element of Freedom earns Keys a double-platinum certification. Next week’s chart offers an R&B showdown. The album has enjoyed snowballing sales and over the past two weeks jumped from Number Thirty to just outside the Top Ten at Number Twelve, with sales of 113,000 last week. Harry Connick Jr.’s Harry for the Holidays made a quiet debut in early November, selling 27,000 copies at Number Thirty-nine. Speaking of the holidays, among the numerous Christmas albums ushered into the season, one seems to have found its feet this year. Though top-shelf releases are sparse between now and Christmas, sales should still remain fairly strong for another two weeks as CDs continue to be plucked as stocking stuffers. And overall sales in the Top 200 were down - from 8.9 million to 7.9 million - for the first time since November 2nd. Diary sold 618,000 copies, according to SoundScan, almost tripling the sales of the Number Two album, Toby Keith’s Shock N Y’all, which sold 213,000 copies.ĭiary was the only newcomer in the Top Ten, and one of only three in the Top Fifty - Trace Adkins’ Comin’ on Strong sold 62,000 at Number Thirty and Michael Buble’s self-titled album sold 47,000 at Number Forty-seven. Two years and gazillion sales later, Keys has returned to the top, and her new album, The Diary of Alicia Keys, is off to an even stronger start than its predecessor. ![]() Alicia Keys seemed to arrive out of nowhere in July 2001 when her debut album, Songs in A Minor, sold 235,000 copies in its first week to chart at Number One. ![]()
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