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  • Chart Check: 3/30/08: Leona Lewis,Danity Kane & More

    Courtesy of the good folks at Billboard, here are this week’s Albums & Singles charts:
    Top 20 Albums:
    1) Welcome To The Dollhouse-Danity Kane
    2) Now That’s What I Call Music 27-Various Artists
    3) Trilla-Rick Ross
    4) Mail On Sunday-FloRida
    5) Sleep Through The Static-Jack Johnson
    6) Hannah Montana 2 Soundtrack/Meet Miley Cyrus-Miley Cyrus
    7) Ego Trippin’-Snoop Dogg
    8) Taylor Swift-Taylor Swift
    9) Little Voice-Sara Bareilles
    10) Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert-Miley Cyrus
    11) Alvin & The Chipmunks-Soundtrack
    12) Jonas Brothers-Jonas Brothers
    13) As I Am-Alicia Keys
    14) Good Time-Alan Jackson
    15) Carnival Ride-Carrie Underwood
    16) Kidz Bop 13-Various Artists
    17) Discipline-Janet Jackson
    18) The Odd Couple-Gnarls Barkley
    19) Coco-Colbie Caillait
    20) Radio Disney Jams 10-Various Artists
    Top 20 Singles:
    1) Bleeding Love-Leona Lewis
    2) Love in this Club-Usher feat. Young Jeezy
    3) Sexy Can I-Ray J. & Yung Berg
    4) With You-Chris Brown
    5) Love Song-Sara Bareilles
    6) No Air-Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown
    7) Low-FloRida feat. T-Pain
    8) Don’t Stop The Music-Rihanna
    9) Lollipop-Li’l Wayne
    10) Shortie Get Loose-Lil’ Mama feat. Chris Brown & T-Pain
    11) Apologize-Timbaland feat. OneRepublic
    12) Stop & Stare-OneRepublic
    13) Superstar-Lupe Fiasco feat. Matthew Santos
    14) See You Again-Miley Cyrus
    15) Touch My Body-Mariah Carey
    16) Independent- Webbie feat. Li’l Phat & Li’l Boosie
    17) No One-Alicia Keys
    18) Sorry-Buckcherry
    19) Elevator-FloRida feat. Timbaland
    20) New Soul-Yael Naim
    *Off the chart, the big news is the loud thudding sound made by “American Idol” judge Randy Jackson’s compilation album “Music Club Vol. 1”, which debuted at #50 last week and drops to #137 this week. This development raises two questions: 1) in light of “Idol” finalists with far more impressive sales pedigrees getting relieved of their contracts, is The Dawg going to receive the same unceremonious boot? and 2) Why do I feel like the *other* Randy Jackson (brother of Michael and Janet) could put out an album right now and have a similar or better response at the cash registers?
    *Brit newcomer Leona Lewis enjoys an impressive move to #1 on the charts this week, but her happiness will be short lived, as Mariah Carey (at #15) will see a sales lift next week due to “Touch My Body”‘s iTunes availability. If Mariah makes it to the top, it will be her 18th chart topper, jumping her ahead of Elvis Presley into 2nd place as the artist with the most #1 singles in history (The Beatles are #1, with 20)
    *Gnarls Barkley enjoy an impressive #18 debut with only about a half-week of sales, as their sophomore effort, “The Odd Couple” didn’t arrive in record stores until Thursday or Friday, two to three days after the tracking week began.
    *Chris Brown manages the impressive feet of scoring three songs in the Top 10 this week, a feat that was most recently accomplished by T-Pain last year. Mr. Pain is no slouch himself, with two songs in the Top 10, including one shared with Mr. Brown
    *Lil’ Mama, believe it or not, is only the fourth female rapper to score two Top Ten hits on the pop chart. The others? Li’l Kim, Da Brat and Missy Elliott.
    *Nice week to be Diddy, eh? Not only was the L.A. Times story that implicated him in Tupac’s 1994 shooting revealed to be a fraud, but his proteges Danity Kane enter the charts at #1 for the second time, making them the only female act to debut at #1 with two consecutive albums. Next week, Puff’s boy-band counterpart, Day26, will ALSO enter the charts at the top with their debut. Expect to see lots of Puffy smiling with those little-ass teeth!!

  • New Releases 3/11/08: Snoop, Fat Joe, Rick Ross, "Now 27" and More!!!

    Hey, what do ya know? A pretty decent-sized week for releases!! Sorry for missing out on last week, when Alan Jackson, The Black Crowes and Michael McDonald all released highly anticipated albums. But moving on…
    Remember when Snoop Dogg was just a young pup? Well, Long Beach’s #1 gangsta is releasing his 10th album today. “Ego Trippin’” is preceded by the smash hit “Sensual Seduction”, which finds the D-O-Double G singing T-Pain style over an Eighties-tastic groove (if you haven’t seen the video yet, hit YouTube now)! “Trippin’” features no involvement from Snoop’s longtime mentor Dr. Dre, but is executive produced by New Jack Swing founder Teddy Riley, so there’s a good chance that the results will be more interesting than 2006’s underwhelming “Blue Carpet Treatment”.
    Hip-hop fans will also delight (maybe) in new releases by NYC hardcore stalwart Fat Joe (the album’s called “The Elephant In The Room” and I refuse to make the obvious joke here) and similarly rotund Miami rapper Rick Ross (“Trilla”). Neither is my cup of tea, but hey, both guys sell records, so what do I know?
    With “American Idol” mania in full swing, it was only a matter of time before one of the judges released an album, and today brings the release of “Randy Jackson’s Music Club Vol. 1”. This compilation contains a who’s-who of pop music, from the long-awaited (I’m being sarcastic in case you couldn’t tell) return of Paula Abdul to “Idol” finalists Katharine McPhee and Elliott Yamin to pop royalty like Mariah Carey. Should be an interesting listen.
    “Now That’s What I Call Music” has become a musical institution in the past 10 years or so, and the 27th installment in the series arrives today. It features the latest hits by Rihanna, Chris Brown, Janet Jackson, Taylor Swift and many more. A wise choice if current Top 40 radio is your thing. As a companion piece, “Now That’s What I Call Music-80’s” also arrives today, bringing you classic smashes ranging from “Billie Jean” to “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”.

    Also hitting stores today, singer/songwriter Kaki King, 2-disc greatest hits compilations from Barry White and The Cranberries, and the return of mid-Nineties two hit wonders The Presidents of the United States of America!! I’m in if they remake that “Peaches” song!!
    A full list of this week’s new releases can be found here: