Rascal Flatts Top the Chart

Country filled in the rest of the chart, with Tim McGraw's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 dropping three spots to Number Five (128,000), and Alan Jackson's slow-burning gospel album, Precious Memories, sticking to Number Ten (49,000).

Meanwhile, rapper and ATL movie star T.I. saw his latest, last week's Number One King, slide two places to Number Three (185,000). Last week's other major hip-hop release, Ghostface Killah's Fishscale, the latest from the super-skilled Wu-Tang Clan MC, also slid -- much farther, from Four to Twenty-Three (37,000).

But the most dramatic drops in sales were experienced by hardcore outfit Atreyu, whose A Death-Grip On Yesterday dropped from Nine to Forty-Six (24,000) in its second week out, and arty rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose critically acclaimed Show Your Bones also plummeted, from Eleven to Forty-One (25,000).

Next week, with no new major releases, the shoving match between country and hip-hop continues.

This week's Top Ten: Rascal Flatt's Me & My Gang; Now That's What I Call Music! 21; T.I.'s King; High School Musical: The Original Soundtrack; Tim McGraw's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2; Pink's I'm Not Dead; James Blunt's Back to Bedlam; Shakira's Oral Fixation Vol. 2; Bubba Sparxxx's The Charm; Alan Jackson's Precious Memories.