Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" vaults from #15 to #1 on Billboard's Hot 100. It's Carey's 18th #1 single, which pushes her ahead of Elvis Presley as the solo artist with the most #1 singles in the rock era (1955 to the present). Only the Beatles have had more. They scored 20.

Carey first topped the Hot 100 in August 1990 with "Vision Of Love." Elvis first topped the Top 100 (the precursor to the Hot 100) in 1956 with "Heartbreak Hotel." He scored his 17th and last #1 in 1969 with "Suspicious Minds." The Beatles crammed their 20 #1 hits into a commercially and creatively unsurpassed 6-1/2 year stretch, from "I Want To Hold Your Hand" in 1964 to "The Long And Winding Road" in 1970.

Diana Ross is tied with Carey at 18 #1 hits, if you combine her 12 chart-toppers with the Supremes and the six from her solo career. Michael Jackson is a beat behind with 17, if you combine his four #1 hits fronting the Jackson 5 and the 13 from his solo career. Other artists with 10 or more #1 hits are:

Alan Jackson's Good Time debuts in the top spot on Nielsen SoundScan's list of the nation's best-selling albums. So why does the country music veteran have reason to be disappointed? For the same reason that Janet Jackson, who debuted at #1 last week with Discipline, probably had mixed feelings about that week's numbers.

Good Time posted a lower opening week sales tally than Alan Jackson's last album, Like Red On A Rose, which debuted at #4 in 2006 with sales of 149,000. Likewise, Discipline opened with a lower sales tally than either of Janet Jackson's last two albums, Damita Jo and 20 Y.O., both of which bowed at #2. In January, Radiohead had a lower total in its first week at #1 with In Rainbows than the band had achieved with its two previous studio albums, Amnesiac and Hail To The Thief, which opened at #2 and #3, respectively.

There were four similar cases last year, when The Notorious B.I.G., Musiq Soulchild, Toby Keith and Common debuted at #1 with sales tallies that were lower

Amy Winehouse and Herbie Hancock lead the annual parade of Grammy winners and performers who surge on Nielsen/SoundScan's list of the best-selling albums in the U.S.

Winehouse's Back To Black leaps from #24 to #2, surpassing its initial peak at #6 last June and July. Hancock's River: The Joni Letters vaults from #159 to #5, surpassing its initial peak at #118 last September. Hancock's weekly sales jumped more than tenfold over last week's tally. Winehouse's weekly sales nearly quintupled compared to last week.

Yet, the #1 album is by an artist whose name wasn't even uttered on the Grammy telecast--Jack Johnson. The balladeer's Sleep Through The Static not only holds at #1 for the second week in a row, it edges past Alicia Keys' As I Am to become the best-selling album so far in 2008.

The deluxe edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller would have opened at #2 if it had been allowed to compete on the pop album chart, but Nielsen/SoundScan and Billboard magazine have a rule that any title

Jack Johnson's Sleep Through The Static opens at #1 with sales of 375,000 copies, a personal best for the mellow balladeer. The robust total allows us to celebrate a milestone in style: Sleep Through The Static is the 750th #1 album since Billboard's album chart became a regular weekly feature in March 1956. (I'll have quite a bit more to say about that, but first let's take care of business.) Johnson's album sold more than four times as many copies as Sheryl Crow's Detours, which bows at #2 with sales of 92,000. The total for ...Static is more than twice the opening week tally of Johnson's previous album, the Curious George soundtrack, which debuted at #1 two years ago with sales of 163,000.

This is Johnson's fourth album in a row to debut in the top three on Nielsen SoundScan's list of the best-selling albums in the U.S. He also did it with On And On in 2003 and In Between Dreams in 2005. Detours is Crow's third studio album in a row to open in the runner-up spot. She also debuted