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Posted 10 11 2007 7:35AM
Bruce Springsteen scored his third number one album in the last five years as Magic bewitched the charts, moving more than 335,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, per Nielsen SoundScan.
Springsteen's other recent chart-toppers include 2002's The Rising and 2005's Devils & Dusk.
Until The Rising hit number one in 2002, Springsteen hadn't topped the charts with a new studio album since 1987's Tunnel of Love. The Rising, which sold an impressive 525,000 first-week copies, reunited Springsteen and the E Street Band for the first time in 18 years. While Devils & Dusk was a solo effort, the Boss visited E Street once again for Magic.
The new album, recorded in Atlanta with noted rock producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers), leads at radio with the ironically titled "Radio Nowhere."
With the Boss taking care of business, Rascal Flatts' Still Feels Good dropped a spot to number two, selling another 168,000 copies.
While last week's chart featured 14 debuts in the Top 25, Magic leads a similar surge, with nine debuts in the Top 15.
Among the week's top bows, Matchbox Twenty sold 131,000 copies at three with the retrospective Exile on Mainstream, a titular nod to the Stones' Exile on Main Street. As one of the '90s most popular rock acts, Rob Thomas & Co. sold more than 28 million albums worldwide and set new chart-topping records at Adult Top 40 and Modern AC. Exile features six new songs alongside such hits as "Push," "Real World" and "Bent."
Peach State teen Soulja Boy translated his chart-topping hit "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" into a number four bow for Souljaboytellem.com. The album sold 117,000 copies, while "Crank That" tops the Hot 100 for a fourth nonconsecutive week
R&B crooner J. Holiday, who's got his own Top 10 hit with "Bed," followed at five, selling 105,000 copies of Back of My 'Lac.
Annie Lennox continues her pop revival with her fifth solo album, Songs of Mass Destruction. The former Eurythmics star sold over 78,000 copies of Destruction for a number nine chart finish.
The rest of the Top 10 were repeat offenders: Keyshia Cole's Just Like You at six, Kanye West's Graduation at seven, Reba McEntire's Reba Duets at eight and the High School Musical 2 soundtrack at 10.
Among the albums falling out of the Top 10: 50 Cent's Curtis. Four weeks after losing the chart competition to West's Graduation, Curtis tumbled eight spots to number 17 and has sold 957,000 copies to Graduation's 1.41 million.
Meanwhile, a quartet of releases just missed the Top 10. Trey Songz's Trey Day checked in at 11 (73,000); Faith Hill's The Hits connected at 12 (69,000); Brooks & Dunn's Cowboy Town lassoed the 13th spot, (also about 69,000); and John Fogerty's Revival registered at 14 (65,000).
Dashboard Confessional, led by emo star Chris Carrabba, sold 48,000 copies of Shade of Poison Trees at 18. That falls short of 2003's A Mark, A Mission, A Band, A Scar and 2006's Dusk and Summer, which both peaked at number two.
Also falling short, one-time buzz group Boyz N Da Hood only managed to sell 16,000 copies of Back Up N Da Chevy for a number 51 open. The Diddy-disciplined rappers, dubbed the NWA of the South, came out strong with the 2005 track "Dem Boyz," but their subsequent self-titled debut tanked after opening at number five.In the two years since, Gorilla Zoe replaced member Young Jeezy, who left to pursue a solo career that earned him a number one album last December with The Inspiration.
Other noteworthy newcomers included Cross Canadian Ragweed's Mission California at 30, Bob Dylan's latest retrospective, Dylan, at 36, Los Temerarios' Recuerdos Del Alma at 59, P.J. Harvey's White Chalk at 65, the Cult's Born Into This at 70, the Very Best of Mick Jagger at 77, Emery's I'm Only a Man at 78 and female-fronted metallers Nightwish's Passion Play at 84.
Overall album sales were down nearly 2 percent from last week and down 15 percent compared to the same week last year.
Here's a rundown of the Top 10:
1. Magic, Bruce Springsteen
2. Still Feels Good, Rascal Flatts
3. Exile on Mainstream, Matchbox Twenty
4. Souljaboytellem.com, Soulja Boy
5. Back of My 'Lac, J. Holiday
6. Just Like You, Keyshia Cole
7. Graduation, Kanye West
8. Reba Duets, Reba McEntire
9. Songs of Mass Destruction, Annie Lennox
10. High School Musical 2 soundtrack, various
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