Chart Roundup: Los Lonely Boys, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Golden Smog

It's a bit of a slow week on the charts but here are the highlights:

• Tex-Mex rockers Los Lonely Boys took over the Number Two spot in their first week on the charts with new record Sacred, selling 66,514 copies.

New addition to the emo/pop-punk crusade Red Jumpsuit Apparatus debuted at Number 25 with Don't You Fake It, selling 25,151 albums this week.

• Indie rock supergroup Golden Smog debuted within the top 100 (at Number 95) with new record Another Fine Day selling a decent 9,304 copies.

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Song Stories

“I'm Yours”

Jason Mraz | 2008

Jason Mraz re-emerged after his disappointing second album with this lead single, a Jack Johnson-esque ditty about giving yourself fully to someone else. The success of the reggae-tinged song (it earned two Grammy nods and a spot on the Billboard singles chart for well over a year) was something the folk-pop singer never predicted when he wrote it in 15 minutes at home. "I played a happy-hippie chord progression that would probably work without 50 different Bob Marley songs," he told Rolling Stone. "I thought, 'It's too novelty. This is a nursery rhyme,'" concluding that "you can never guess what's gonna be a hit."

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