Los Angeles (E! Online) - Blake Lewis can't jingle Josh Groban's bells.
See Also:The beatboxer became the second Idol star in three weeks to have a debut on the weekly pop chart, but neither he nor season-six champ Jordin Sparks were able to make Groban break a sweat. The crooner's holiday offering, Noël, spent its third straight week at number one, selling another 581,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Groban is now tied with the King himself, Elvis Presley, for the most consecutive weeks atop the chart with a Christmas album. Furthermore, when Noël hit number one in its seventh week, it became the first Christmas album in 13 years to top the charts. Noël also reached double-platinum sales in the U.S. last week, and internationally it has reached number one in Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines and has gone double-platinum in South Africa and triple-platinum in Canada. Already with enough Oprah support to make one think he's running for president, Groban continues his spate of promotional TV appearances. In the next few weeks, he'll warble for Rachael Ray, Larry King, Good Morning America, the Disney Christmas Special and once more for Oprah in a reairing of Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things, which first helped get the snowball rolling, so to speak. On the American Idol front, however, there was less reason to make merry. Season-six runner-up Lewis landed a Top 10 bow as Audio Day Dream sold 98,000 copies at number 10. While Lewis tied Sparks' opening chart position, her self-titled bow sold 21,000 more copies in its opening two weeks back. Lewis ranks fourth among Idol runner-up debuts, selling fewer first-week copies than Clay Aiken, Katharine McPhee and Bo Bice, but more than Justin Guarini and Diana DeGarmo. Still, during a period of frigid sales that would make the Snow Miser proud, Jordin Sparks and Audio Day Dream were the only Top 10 bows over the past three weeks. Taylor Swift's self-titled debut, now in its 59th week on the charts, climbed three spots to number nine to reenter the Top 10. Last month, a deluxe edition of the album helped propel the disc 18 spots to number eight, but the album then fell just outside the Top 10, until this week's return. Swift benefits from her recent country chart-topper, "Our Songs," and a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. The rest of the Top 10, all stocking-stuffer faves, included Alicia Keys' As I Am at two, the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden at three, Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 26 at four, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus at five, the High School Musical 2 soundtrack at six, Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride at seven and Garth Brooks' The Ultimate Hits at eight. Scarface's M.A.D.E. scored the week's next best bow at 17 with 63,000 copies. A pioneer of the Houston rap scene, Scarface broke huge in the '90s and even topped the Billboard 200 with 1997's The Untouchable. His previous album, 2006's My Homies Part 2, opened at 12. Another rap vet, Ghostface Killah, likewise saw a chart downturn with his new album. The Wu-Tanger scored a critical and commercial hit last year with Fishscale, which opened at number four. He quickly followed with More Fish, earning a less enthusiastic number 71 bow, and now The Big Dog Rehab has entered at 41 on 36,000 copies. The week's other notable debuts included Trace Adkins' Greatest Hits Volume II: American Man at 22, Drama's Gangsta Grillz: The Album at 26, Wyclef Jean's Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant at 28, Good Times, Bad Times...10 Years of Godsmack at 35, Styles P's Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) at 52 and The Best of 2Pac, Part 1: Thug and Part 2: Life at numbers 65 and 77, respectively. In other chart news, the original High School Musical soundtrack celebrated its 100th week on the chart at 27 with 4.5 million total copies sold and counting. Over on the singles chart, the HSM2 single "What Time Is It" takes back the top spot from the HeartBeat Boys' "Christmas Oh Christmas" for the second time in five weeks. Also on the singles chart, the Killers land the week's highest debut at number four, selling nearly a thousand copies of "Don't Shoot Me Santa." Overall, sales are up 18 percent from last week but down more than 23 percent compared to the same week last year. 1. Noël, Josh Groban 2. As I Am, Alicia Keys 3. Long Road Out of Eden, the Eagles 4. Now That's What I Call Music! 26, various 5. Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus 6. High School Musical 2 soundtrack, various 7. Carnival Ride, Carrie Underwood 8. The Ultimate Hits, Garth Brooks 9. Carnival Ride, Carrie Underwood 10. Audio Day Dream, Blake Lewis Related Videos:
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