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Following at #4 is Stone Sour's Come What(ever) May - the first studio release in four years from the rock collective featuring members of Slipknot - which racked up close to 81,000 sales. Kidz Bop 10 - featuring the Kidz Bop Kids' versions of Daniel Powter's "Bad Day," the All-American Rejects' "Move Along," and Rihanna's "S.O.S." - sold more than 116,000 copies its first week in stores to secure the #3 spot.
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There's one silver lining to DMX ending his run at the hands of Now 22: He didn't lose out to a bunch of pint-sized singers. Week-one sales of Year of the Dog, Again were reported at just fewer than 126,000 - putting X only 1,500 copies behind Now 22 - to score the rapper a second-place ribbon. X's latest LP, Year of the Dog, Again just couldn't top the collective might of Rihanna, Chris Brown, Nick Lachey, Kelly Clarkson and more than a dozen other hitmakers - all of whom can be found on Now That's What I Call Music! 22, which takes #1 for a third time, selling 127,000 copies after slipping to #2 on the previous chart.ĭMX didn't go quietly. The following year, Darkman X's Grand Champ topped the Billboard chart with sales of 312,000.īut the streak ends here. And Then There Was X, which toppled the opposition with 698,000 scans, and 2002's The Great Depression followed suit with first-week sales of 440,000. It's Dark and Hell Is Hot opened atop the chart in 1998 after selling more than 251,000 copies, while Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood, released that same year, crushed the competition with 670,000 sales. The gravel-voiced, traffic-infraction-prone New York rapper's five previous studio discs all debuted at #1 on Billboard's albums chart. Until now, DMX had never known what it was like to finish second with a new LP.