With a Bullet: Today's Charts
Never underestimate the power of the Grammy. It's a gift that certainly keeps giving for Herbie Hancock. The jazz legend's upset win for Album of the Year has resulted in a whopping 967% increase in sales of 'River: The Joni Letters.' It also gives him his highest placement ever on the Billboard charts, at No. 5.Grammy's biggest winner this year, Amy Winehouse, is also seeing more green after her five wins. Sales of the British chanteuse's breakthrough album, 'Back to Black,' are up 368%, putting her at No. 2 on the charts this week. And after her two Grammy performances and two Grammy wins (Best Female R&B Performance and Best R&B Song), Alicia Keys is sitting pretty at No. 3 with her new CD, 'As I Am.' Keys is a name we're certain to hear called several times again in the 2009 Grammy nods, as the full album was not eligible this year.
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Posted by Beville Darden on Feb 20th 2008 6:00PM
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Record-industry slump? Carrie Underwood laughs at such a ridiculous notion! Hahahahahaha, you could hear this Okie from (really close to) Muskogee chortle, all big-voiced and on key! Underwood, just two years off her trouncing of the competition on 'American Idol,' has proved to be one of the most successful of the overstyled oversingers to win the show's top prize. Her second album of country-style croonings, packaged in her twangtastic album 'Carnival Ride,' not only debuted at the top of the album charts, it went gold in the process. Jesus has not just taken the wheel, He's put the pedal to the metal, with this gal riding shotgun!
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The time is now for the flannel-shirt-sporting, anti-war-lyric-spouting, retro-sounds-spewing, AARP-card-carrying rocker!
For the second week in a row, the album charts are topped with a little twang. Last week, 




