( Entertainment Weekly ) -- For the past three weeks in a row , Michael Jackson 's `` Number Ones '' has been the biggest-selling album in the country . For the first time in a month , the No . 1 album on the Billboard 200 is actually the No . 1 selling album . Each time , it 's been disqualified from Billboard 's flagship Billboard 200 chart , along with all Jackson 's other releases , due to its age . That unusual run of asterisked Billboard 200 chart-toppers is now over . Which artist put an end to Jackson 's posthumous flummoxing of the Billboard rules , you ask ? The answer is Chris Daughtry , whose `` Leave This Town '' bows atop the chart with a very nice 269,000 copies sold , according to Nielsen SoundScan . That 's actually a bit of a drop-off from the 304,000 that the first album from American Idol alum Chris Daughtry 's band sold when it hit shelves in 2006 , but it 's more than anyone else could muster in this sales frame -- yes , even Michael . And so for the first time in a month , the No . 1 album on the Billboard 200 is actually the No . 1 selling album in the U.S. , no tricks , no fooling . ( `` Number Ones , '' meanwhile , sold another 192,000 this week , landing it handily atop the Top Comprehensive Albums chart , which counts catalog albums alongside new ones . So do n't think that MJ 's sales have dried up just yet . ) Other Billboard 200 debuts this week came from the Dead Weather 's `` Horehound '' at No . 6 , demonstrating that at least 51,000 devotees can be counted on to buy any side project Jack White dreams up . R & B singer Joe , shows up at No . 7 after signing over 49,000 units of his `` Signature '' ; Twista fast-talked his way into 45,000 sales and a No . 8 bow ; and Christian power-pop teens pureNRG squeak in at No . 20 with 22,000 copies sold . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . Copyright 2009 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
Daughtry 's `` Leave This Town '' tops chart with 269,000 copies sold . In past weeks , Michael Jackson 's `` Number Ones '' has been biggest-selling album . Daughtry 's first album sold 304,000 when it was released in 2006 . TL;DR The band is set to release its second album, which will be called 'American Beauty' and feature a new lead singer.