American Idol winner Ruben Studdard sold 416,000 copies of his debut album Soulful, according to SoundScan, to give the TV show its third chart-topping alum.

While Studdard's numbers easily trounced the week's Number Two album, Alicia Keys' The Diary of Alicia Keys (which sold 342,000 to bring its two-week total to 961,000), they inevitably invite comparison to those of his Idol runner-up Clay Aiken, who set the bar higher when he sold 613,000 copies of his Measure of a Man two months ago.

Still, it's hard to complain about sales of Soulful's magnitude, and the record was something of a Pied Piper this week, leading the rush of holiday sales spikes. Not counting the eight newcomers to the Top Fifty, only five albums didn't experience a sales increase from the previous week, with sales for the Top 200 taking a monstrous shot north from 7.7 million last week to 10.4 million. Twenty-four of those albums posted six-figure sales.