Timberlake's "Sexy" sizzles at No. 1
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After selling an astonishing 250,000  copies as a digital download, Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"  surged 29 places to seize the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100  singles chart Thursday.
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In a slow week for the Billboard chart, Alicia Keys reached No. 2 with 112,000 sales of âAs I Amâ (J); Mary J. Blige moved 89,000 of âGrowing Painsâ (Geffen) to reach No. 3; âNow Thatâs What I Call Music!â Vol. 26 is at No. 4 with 54,000; and the 18-year-old country singer Taylor Swift rose three spots to No. 5, though sales of her self-titled album, on the Big Machine label, dropped 39 percent last week to 47,000, Nielsen SoundScan reported. Radiohead reached No. 1 with the conventional release of âIn Rainbows,â through the ATO label, on CD and other formats. The indie-rock âJunoâ soundtrack (Rhino), popular online, opened at No. 8 with 38,000.
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Singer Adele's debut album 19 goes straight to the top of the chart in its first week.
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A release during the usually quiet  Fourth of July week didn&#39;t deter sales of T.I.&#39;s &quot;T.I. vs.  T.I.P.,&quot; which sold 468,000 copies in the United States,  according to Nielsen SoundScan, to debut at No. 1 on the  Billboard 200.
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Justin Timberlake scored the fourth  No. 1 single of his career Thursday as "What Goes Around, Comes  Around" zoomed up seven places in its 11th week on the  Billboard Hot 100 chart.
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For the second week in a row, Mario's "Let Me Love You" topped Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart, while Ciara's "1, 2 Step" moved up one to No. 2, trading places with Snoop Dogg's former chart-topper "Drop It Like It's Hot."
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Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous"  featuring Timbaland led the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for  a fourth week Thursday, while Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy" held at  No. 2 but replaced Furtado atop the Hot Digital Songs chart.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - With the help of Alicia Keys, R&B  singer Usher grabbed his fourth No. 1 of the year on  Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart Thursday.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - After selling an astonishing 250,000   copies as a digital download, Justin Timberlake's "SexyBack"   surged 30 places to seize the top spot on Billboard's Hot 100   singles chart Thursday.
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Justin Timberlake has suavely made a rare kind of transition: from boy-band trouper to self-determined songwriter and bandleader.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Britney Spears' new single, "Gimme More," came roaring out of the gates on CHR (contemporary hit radio)/top 40 radio, debuting at No. 25 on Billboard sister publication Radio & Records' format chart for the week ending September 2 and endowing Spears with the second-best start of her career. But that was before MTV's Video Music Awards (VMAs).
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Beyonce led the Billboard Hot 100  singles chart for a 10th consecutive week Thursday with  "Irreplaceable," while Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right" climbed  one spot to a new peak of No. 2.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - R&B singer Mario held the top  spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a seventh  consecutive week Thursday with "Let Me Love You," while Ciara's  "1, 2 Step" featuring Missy Elliott was No. 2 for a sixth week.
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Rihanna&#39;s &quot;Umbrella&quot; begins a  seventh week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, having  successfully fended off Shop Boyz&#39; &quot;Party Like a Rockstar,&quot;  which drops from No. 2 to No. 4.
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A day after his second solo release,  "FutureSex/LoveSounds," debuted at No. 1 on the U.S. pop album  charts, Justin Timberlake logged a fourth week atop the Hot 100  singles chart with "SexyBack."
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Welcome to the best sales week of  this still-young 2005.
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In yet another big week for new  releases on the U.S. albums chart, the MTV-constructed band  Danity Kane trumped hip-hop duo OutKast to take the top spot,  while Paris Hilton scored the highest debut for a new solo  female pop artist this year with a No. 6 entry.