Chart Roundup: Nelly Furtado, Underoath, Keane, Corinne Baily Rae, Three 6 Mafia

• Let's start with the obvious: Nelly Furtado's third record, Loose, entered the charts at Number One, selling 218,711 copies in its first week. Everybody loves a promiscuous maneater.

• Ah, Christian metal, the kids just love you. Define the Great Line, the new album from Florida's Underoath, debuted at Number Two on the charts, selling 97,602 copies in its first week.

• Ballad-loving Brits Keane scored the Number Four spot on the charts this week with the release of their second record Under the Iron Sea. The album sold an impressive 75,483 copies in its debut week.

• British soul chanteuse Corinne Baily Rae's self-titled debut came in at an impressive Number 17 in its first week on the charts.

• Oscar winning rappers Three 6 Mafia jumped an absurd 129 places on the charts back up to Number 54 with the reissued, repackaged, super-special version of their latest record Most Known Unknown.

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Song Stories

“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell | 1974

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.

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