Madonna's club-ready Confessions on a Dance Floor, a recent chart-topper for the Material Girl, dropped four places to Number Eight (105,000). While Nickelback's top-selling All the Right Reasons returned to the Top Ten, up one spot from last week to Number Nine (105,000). Surprisingly, however, last week's Number One, System of a Down's Hypnotize, dropped from its massive opening down to Number Ten (102,000) in just a week.
The new incarnation of INXS, helmed by Rock Star: INXS winner J.D. Fortune, made a respectable showing, cracking the Top Twenty. The band's first studio album in eight years, Switch, bowed at Number Seventeen (75,000). But nowhere near the top half of the chart were much-hyped, cheeky British rockers the Darkness: One Way Ticket to Hell . . . and Back, the follow-up to their multiplatinum 2003 debut Permission to Land, sold a measly 26,000 CDs to bow way down at Number Fifty-Eight.
Less dire but not too happy were a couple hip-hoppers who made strong debuts last week. Harlem rapper and Diplomats crew member Juelz Santana's fourth effort, What the Game's Been Missing!, dropped from Nine to Twenty-Four (57,000), while breakout Southern rapper Chamillionaire's major-label debut, The Sound of Revenge, went from Ten to Twenty-Six (52,000).
Next week, look for Lindsay Lohan's sophomore effort, the less pop-y A Little More Personal (Raw), to make it into more than a few little girls' stockings. And New Orleans Cash Money MC Lil' Wayne's fifth album, Tha Carter II, will set the next chart's hip-hop high.