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"Alicia Keys&amp;apos; Unplugged album took the Number One spot this week, selling 196,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The CD, Key&amp;apos;s third release, features guest spots by Common, Maroon 5&amp;apos;s Adam Levine, Mos Def and Damian Marley. Keys knocked Canadian rockers Nickelback from their career high at the top spot: Their fifth effort, All the Right Reasons, sold 170,000 copies to come in second place.\nAnother big debut this week came from California-born country man Gary Allan&amp;apos;s sixth effort, Tough All Over, which sold 100,000 CDs to land at Number Three. The album, inspired by the suicide of Allan&amp;apos;s wife, is a hard-won crossover for the artist: His last record, 2004&amp;apos;s See If I Care peaked at Number Seventeen.\nBlack Eyed Peas&amp;apos; Monkey Business continued to stick to the Top Ten: After months in stores, the album climbed back up four places to Number Four (90,000). And hip-hop superstar Kanye West&amp;apos;s sophomore effort, Late Registration, sold another 83,000 copies in its seventh week to climb one spot to Number Five.\nAt Number Six is Latin pop star Ricky Martin&amp;apos;s follow-up to 2003&amp;apos;s Spanish-language album Almas del Silencio, Life (73,000), which features Black Eyed Peas, Amerie and Fat Joe, as well as production by Scott Storch. Sheryl Crow&amp;apos;s fifth studio album, Wildflower, dropped two places to Number Seven (59,000) in its third week out. Veteran Chicago rapper Twista&amp;apos;s latest, The Day After, fell from last week&amp;apos;s career-high debut at Number Two to Number Eight (58,000). Country bad girl Gretchen Wilson&amp;apos;s sophomore album and former chart-topper, All Jacked Up, also dropped: five places to Number Nine (57,000), while Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy&amp;apos;s Let&amp;apos;s Get It: Thug Motivation 101, jumped nine spots back into the Top Ten (Ten, 54,000).\nFeeling gloomier this week is gloomy-enough-already Fiona Apple, whose much-delayed third album, Extraordinary Machine, made for her highest debut yet, at Number Seven last week -- only to quickly drop seven spots, out of the Top Ten, to Number Fourteen (48,000). And Glasgow art rockers Franz Ferdinand&amp;apos;s follow-up to their acclaimed, eponymous 2004 debut, You Could Have It So Much Better, dropped even faster: from Number Eight to Number Twenty-Seven (35,000), in only its second week out.\nNext week, expect Stevie Wonder&amp;apos;s first album in ten years, A Time to Love, to hit the Top Ten. And a whole generation of neo-New Wave fans just might make Depeche Mode&amp;apos;s latest, Playing the Angel, chart high. And for those who feel Ashlee Simpson&amp;apos;s post-lip-sync-debacle pain, there&amp;apos;s always her sophomore CD, I Am Me. Let&amp;apos;s see how many people buy it.\nThis week&amp;apos;s Top Ten: Alicia Keys&amp;apos; Unplugged; Nickelback&amp;apos;s All the Right Reasons; Gary Allan&amp;apos;s Tough All Over; Black Eyed Peas&amp;apos; Monkey Business; Kanye West&amp;apos;s Late Registration; Ricky Martin&amp;apos;s Life; Sheryl Crow&amp;apos;s Wildflower; Twista&amp;apos;s The Day After; Gretchen Wilson&amp;apos;s All Jacked Up; Young Jeezy&amp;apos;s Let&amp;apos;s Get It: Thug Motivation 101."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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