No doubt about it, the week belonged to Beyonce, who sold 541,000 copies of "B'Day" (Sony Urban/Columbia), nearly 4 times as many as Audioslave's "Revelations" (Epic), which took a No. 2 debut nationally with 142,000 copies sold. Bob Dylan's "Modern Times" slides to No. 3 on 128,000 sold.
Newsday's Top Albums and Singles (compiled by Billboard) on the jump
Newsday Top Albums
(national ranking in parentheses; *denotes debut)
1 (1) “B’Day,” Beyonce*
2 (3) “Modern Times,” Bob Dylan
3 (2) “Revelations,” Audioslave*
4 (4) “Danity Kane,” Danity Kane
5 (6) “Back to Basics,” Christina Aguilera
6 (9) “A Matter of Life and Death,” Iron Maiden*
7 (5) “The Cheetah Girls 2 Soundtrack,” Various Artists
8 (7) “A Public Affair,” Jessica Simpson
9 (12) “Idlewild,” OutKast
10 (22) “4:21… The Day After,” Method Man
Newsday Top Singles
(national ranking in parentheses)
1 (7) “Sexy Love,” Ne-Yo
2 (1) “SexyBack,” Justin Timberlake
3 (13) “Pullin’ Me Back,” Chingy feat. Tyrese
4 (--) “Dutty Wine,” Tony Matterhorn
5 (29) “Hips Don’t Lie,” Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
6 (5) “(When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me,” Sean Paul feat. Keyshia Cole
7 (3) “Buttons,” Pussycat Dolls feat. Snoop Dogg
8 (8) “Far Away,” Nickelback
9 (17) “U and Dat,” E-40 feat. T-Pain and Kandi Girl
10 (4) “Crazy,” Gnarls Barkley