For the first time in seven weeks, there is no new rock record to top the Billboard album chart; in fact, no new records debuted in the top 10, in what proved to be a lackluster sales week overall. Despite a slight dip in sales to 172,000 (according to SoundScan), Mariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi climbed two notches to retake the No. 1 spot. Similarly, System of a Down's Mezmerize climbed two rungs to No. 2 despite a 30 percent sales drop to 118,000. Last week's chart-topper, Audioslave's Out of Exile, saw sales plummet 62 percent in its second week — it sold 99,000 copies, for third place.
Toby Keith's Honkytonk University sold another 85,000 copies, a third less than last week, but it rose one spot on the chart to No. 4. Gwen Stefani's Love, Angel, Music, Baby actually saw a 9 percent rise in sales, to 83,000 copies, enough to boost the record from No. 10 to No. 5.
Last week's No. 2, Common's Be, slid four slots to No. 6. Dave Matthews Band's Stand Up remained in seventh place. Returning to the top 10 were 50 Cent's The Massacre, rising from No. 11 to No. 8, and Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway, up five places to No. 9. Il Divo's self-titled debut slipped one slot to No. 10. Just missing out on a top-10 debut was Oasis' Don't Believe the Truth, which opened at No. 12 on sales of 65,000; it marks the Brit band's best U.S. showing since 1997, when Be Here Now sold 152,000 copies its first week and debuted at No. 2.
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