For the past three weeks in a row, Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" has been the biggest-selling album in the country. Each time, it's been disqualified from Billboard's flagship Billboard 200 chart, along with all Jackson's other releases, due to its age.
For the first time in a month, the #1 album on the Billboard 200 is actually the #1 selling album. That unusual run of asterisked Billboard 200 chart-toppers is over. Daughtry finally put an end to Jackson's posthumous flummoxing of the Billboard rules as "Leave This Town" bows atop the chart with 269,000 copies sold.
That's a bit of a drop-off from the 304,000 that the first album sold when it hit shelves in 2006, but it's more than anyone else could muster in this sales frame.
Christian power-pop teens pureNRG squeak in at No. 20 with 22,000 copies sold.
