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The Charts Go Back To School
03/22/2006 5:16 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
The calendar might say it's spring break season, but this week's
album charts is all about high school and report cards.
For
the second time since its release 10 weeks ago, the Disney Channel's
High School Musical soundtrack made a surprise jump to the top of
the charts, selling over 142,000 copies for the week ended Sunday,
according to Nielsen SoundScan. To date, the disc sold nearly 812,000
total copies--not bad for an album that opened at 143 and supported a
made-for-TV movie that cost just $5 million.
Meanwhile, the
week's top bow belonged to Bay Area rapper E-40. His new album, My
Ghetto Report Card, executive-produced by crunkmeister Lil Jon, sold
nearly 94,000 copies to open at number three. The disc features guest
appearances by 8Ball, UGK and Mike Jones, while E-40's own son Droop-e
(of the Pharmasuticles) contributed production.
E-40 made the
Top 20 with six of his previous albums, but My Ghetto Report Card
is his first to break the Top 10. The album features the radio hit "Tell
Me When to Go" and hopes to popularize a surging NoCal crunk style
called "hyphy."
Fall Out Boy scored the week's biggest jump,
as the emo band's smash 2005 breakthrough, From Under the Cork
Tree, sold an impressive 51,000 copies to leap from 42 to nine. The
disc benefits from a new bonus version--called the Black Clouds and
Underdogs edition--that includes demos, remixes and other added
tracks. The disc already sold more than 2 million copies since its
release 46 weeks ago.
The rest of the Top 10 were all repeat
offenders. Last week's chart-topper, Juvenile's Reality Check,
fell to number five with 174,000 copies, while singer-songwriter James
Blunt held tight at two as Back to Bedlam sold another 126,000
discs. Rounding out the list: Ne-Yo's In My Own Words at four,
Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts at six, Matisyahu's Youth
at seven, The Legend of Johnny Cash at eight and Jack Johnson &
Friends' Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George
in the 10 spot.
Elsewhere, the country music trio Shedaisy
opened at 22 as Fortuneteller's Melody moved 33,000 copies, while
Steely Dan's Donald Fagen followed at 26 with 32,000 copies of his new
solo effort, Morph the Cat.
Dave Chappelle's Block
Party soundtrack sold 21,000 copies at 44. The disc features live
tracks culled from a free concert he put together in Brooklyn just
months before his unexpected vacation from Comedy Central. The
soundtrack features the likes of Common performing "The Light" with
Erykah Badu, Bilal and the Roots rocking "Boom" with emcee legends Big
Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap and a Black Star reunion of Mos Def and Talib
Kweli. (While the film documents the Fugees' reunion, the group does not
appear on the soundtrack.) The film, currently in limited release, pays
homage to another concert documentary, 1973's Wattstax, which
commemorated the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots with a music
festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Other noteworthy debuts
included Martha Munizzi's No Limits Live at 60, Building 429's
Rise at 81, Joe Satriani's Super Colossal at 86, Black
Sabbath's Greatest Hits 1970-78 at 96, and Willie Nelson's You
Don't Know Me: Songs of Cindy Walker at 114.
Here's a
recap of last week's Top 10 albums:
1. High School
Musical soundtrack, various
2. Back to Bedlam, James
Blunt
3. My Ghetto Report Card, E-40
4. In My
Own Words, Ne-Yo
5. Reality Check, Juvenile
6.
Some Hearts, Carrie Underwood
7. Youth, Matisyahu
8. The Legend of Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash
9. From
Under the Cork Tree, Fall Out Boy
10. Sing-A-Longs and
Lullabies for the Film Curious George, Jack Johnson & Friends
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