And, of course, this year's chart constants, Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business and Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi, both in stores for months now, continued to stick to the Top Ten: The Peas dropped four places to Number Eight (83,000), and Carey also fell four spots to Number Nine (75,000).
Two hits compilations stopped terrorizing the chart: the latest installment of the blockbuster series Now That's What I Call Music! dropped ten places to Number Seventeen (56,000), and teenybopper Hilary Duff's best-of, Most Wanted, fell eleven spots to Twenty (45,000). Meanwhile, despite their ongoing mega-tour, the Rolling Stones saw A Bigger Bang, their first studio album in eight years, fall from Number Three to Twelve (63,000) in its second week. And G Unit rapper Tony Yayo's solo debut, Thoughts of a Predicate Felon, dropped seventeen places in its third week to Number Twenty-Three (39,000).
Next week, expect Dirty South rapper David Banner's latest, Certified, and veteran New Jersey rockers Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day to make their presence known.
This week's Top Ten: Paul Wall's The People's Champ; Kanye West's Late Registration; Switchfoot's Nothing Is Sound; Trisha Yearwood's Jasper County; Pussycat Dolls' PCD; Paul McCartney's Chaos and Creation in the Backyard; Damian Marley's Welcome to Jamrock; Black Eyed Peas' Monkey Business; Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi; Charlie Wilson's Charlie, Last Name Wilson.