
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - 50 Cent's 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin', is back on top of the album chart after selling 359,000 copies last week. The total was enough to bump Norah Jones's debut album, Come Away With Me, to No 2 on sales of 337,000 copies.
Rapper Fabolous scores the highest debut of the week with his sophomore album, Street Dreams, which sold almost 186,000 copies. The set features guest appearances by 50 Cent, Missy Elliott, Ashanti, Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg, Jadakiss, Styles P, M.O.P., P. Diddy, and Jagged Edge.
R. Kelly's Chocolate Factory drops to No 4 this week. Rapper Lil' Kim's La Bella Mafia lands at No 5 on sales of 166,000 copies--the album features guest appearances from Havoc of Mobb Deep, 50 Cent, Twista, Styles P of the Lox, Missy Elliott, Swizz Beatz, Mashonda, and Mr. Cheeks, among others. Meanwhile, the Dixie Chicks' Home drop two to No 6 this week.
Little Rock, Arkansas-based rockers Evanescence enter the chart at No 7 after selling nearly 142,000 copies of their Wind-Up Records debut album, Fallen. The band's success has been fueled by its hit single "Bring Me To Life," which can be found on their album as well as on Wind-Up's Daredevil soundtrack.
Rounding out the top 10 are Kid Rock's Cocky at No 8, the Chicago soundtrack at No 9, and the Cradle 2 The Grave soundtrack at No 10.
Other notable debuts this week include:
- Razor & Tie's Kidz Bop Vol. 3 (No 17, on sales of 55,000 units). The collection, which is the subject of a huge TV advertising blitz aimed at children, features 30 newly recorded, kid-friendly versions of hits like Avril Lavigne's "Complicated" and Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles."
- Also debuting this week are Grammy Award-winning Christian rockers Third Day's Offerings II: All I Have To Give at No 18,
- the Ataris' So Long, Astoria at No 24 and
- Wayne Wonder's No Holding Back at No 29.