George Strait scores his fourth No. 1 album
George IV Strait [ tickets ]'s newly countersink, "Poet-singer," sold 166,000 copies during its debut week in stores, gift him the quarter No. 1 album of his vocation.R.E.M. [ tickets ]'s "Accelerate" enters The Hoarding 200 album chart at No. 2 on gross sales of 115,000, while the multi-artist "Now 27" hits compiling climbs two notches to No. 3 on gross revenue of 60,000. Billboard bases its flagship album chart on Nielsen SoundScan retail reports.Day26 [ tickets ]'s self-titled album, which was last week's No. 1 ledger entry, slips to No. 4 this week on gross sales of 51,000. The "Alvin and the Chipmunks" soundtrack (the film was released on Videodisc on Apr 1) jumps from No. 16 to No. 5, besides on gross revenue of 51,000, according to Hoarding.Rounding come out the Upside 10 are Trina [ tickets ]'s "Still Da Baddest," Danity Kane [ tickets ]'s "Welcome to the Dollhouse," Counting Crows [ tickets ]' "Sat Nights & Billy Sunday Good morning," Haystack John Ross [ tickets ]' "Trilla" and Vanguard Morrison [ tickets ]'s "Keep it Simple."
Lucie Silvas
