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标题:Rock band Daughtry knock Michael Jackson off US charts
内容:New York - Rock band Daughtry has managed to knock Michael Jackson off the US charts, with its second album, Leave This Town. The band, led by former American Idol finalist Chris Daughtry, sold 269,000 copies of the album released last week, the New York Times reported Thursday.
King of Pop Jackson has topped the Billboard charts since his death June 25.
Jackson's albums continue to sell - 192,000 copies of Number Ones sold last week, along with 125,000 copies of The Essential Michael Jackson and 114,000 copies of his biggest hit, Thriller
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标题:Daughtry beats MJ on US album chart
内容:London, July 24 (ANI): Rock band Daughtry has outsold Michael Jackson and claimed the top spot in the US album chart.
Fronted by Chris Daughtry, the group went straight to the top of the Billboard 200 album chart with ‘Leave This Town’.
Singer Chris Daughtry was amongst the finalists on TV show ‘American Idol’, reports the BBC.
Daughtry’s album sold 269,000 copies in the week ending July 19, according to music sales tracker Nielsen Soundscan.
Jackson’s Number Ones album, which sold 192,000 in that period, had sold the most copies every week since his death. (ANI)
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标题:Who dethroned the King Of Pop ?
Daughtry has ended the King of Pop's reign over the charts, which he'd held since his unexpected death last month.
"Leave This Town," the latest release from the rock band fronted by former "American Idol" contestant Chris Daughtry, rose to top of the Billboard 200 pop chart this week.
He ends a three-week run in which Michael Jackson had the best selling album.
While Jackson's albums don't qualify for a spot on the Billboard 200 list, since they were released more than 18 months ago, he's had control of the number 1 spot on the Top Comprehensive Albums chart.
Nearly 270,000 copies of "Leave This Town" were sold during the week ended July 19.
This is the second Daughtry release to reach the top spot on the Billboard 200, after the band's self-titled album had the same success in 2006.
The desire to scoop up Jackson's hits hasn't halted yet though.
The singer's 2003 "Number Ones" collection sold 192,000 copies last week, earning it the No. 2 spot.
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标题:Daughtry tops albums chart, outsells Michael Jackson
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 don'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.
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