Reba Tops the Album Chart, Daughtry Slips and Underwood Drops Out of Top 50

Believe it or not, this week's Top 50 album chart will be the first one not to feature Carrie Underwood's Some Hearts since 2005! Don't worry for Carrie, though -- her new album comes out in four weeks, so she'll be dominating again before too long.

Dominating this week, however, is Reba McEntire, who got an assist from Kelly Clarkson on her albums Duets. Clarkson and McEntire of course recorded a new version of Clarkson's "Because of You," which served as the first single. Duets sold approximately 300K copies, which is the biggest first week total of Reba's career.

The only Idol alum with an album on the charts, then, is Daughtry, whose self-titled debut fell eight spots to #31 this week (21K copies).

Aside from Reba, the rest of the Top 5 consisted of Kanye West (200K), 50 Cent (128K), Barry Manilow (112K) and Kenny Chesney (110K).

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Daughtry Gets a Boost and Underwood Hangs in the Top 50 on This Week's Album Chart

Daughtry got some mileage out of their hit single "Over You," increasing their sales this week by 16% to 23K, good enough for the #22 spot. Carrie Underwood, meanwhile, hung in the Top 50 at #48, selling just under 12K copies. Her new album comes out next month.

The #1 spot went to Kanye West, with a whopping 930K albums sold. Wow! 50 Cent came in second with about 660K albums, and country star Kenny Chesney finished at #3 with 400K albums sold. The Top 5 was rounded out by the soundtracks to High School Musical 2 (129K) and Hannah Montana (43K).

Kelly Clarkson, once again, failed to make it into the Top 50.

Numbers courtesy of Hits Daily Double

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