Now 22 Stays on Top

In what was the slowest sales-week since Jan. 23, 1994, NOW! That’s What I Call Music 22 held onto the top spot on the Billboard 100 chart for the second week in a row.

By COED Staff

Featuring tracks from Chamillionaire, Kelly Clarkson, Rihanna, Daniel Powter, Ne-Yo, Nickelback and the All-American Rejects, the compilation moved 207,000 units. It was the only album to sell six figures.

Los Lonely Boys’s sophomore album, Sacred, earned them their best chart position yet, entering at No. 2 with 67,000 sold, as did country singer Rodney Atkins’s second album, If You’re Going Through Hell, which entered at No. 3, with 55,000 sold.

Gnarls Barkley’s St. Elsewhere moved up from 5 to 4 with 53,000, and the soundtrack to Disney’s High School Musical ascended from 7 to 5 in its 28th week on the chart, with 52,000 copies.

After 45 weeks on the chart, the Pussycat Dolls moved back into the top 10, from 13 to 10, with 43,000.