Either way you slice it, Sony BMG was going to have the top album in the country. Justin Timberlake's Futuresex/Love Sounds (Jive) held its spot atop the album chart. In selling 217,000 units in its second week of release -- a 68% drop over last week -- Timberlake topped the debut of Clay Aiken's A Thousand Different Ways (RCA). The "American Idol" star sold 205,000 units (5% in the digital format).

Sales for the week were down 4% even though there were some good first week sales. Fergie's Duchess (A&M) debuted at #3 with 142,000. Kenny Chesney's live album, Live Those Songs Again (BNA), came in at #4 with 136,000. Diane Krall's From This Moment On (Verve) debuted at #7 with sales of 84,000. Chingy's Hoodstar (Capitol) came in at #8 with 70,000.

Three albums in the Top 20 continued to hold steady. Hinder's Extreme Behavior (Universal) improved 9% and sits at #9. Nickelback's All The Right Reasons (Roadrunner) dropped three spots to #13 and increased its 51-week tally to 3,592,000 units. The Fray's How To Save A Life (Epic) increased 46% and rose to #15.

Jesse McCartney's Right Where You Want Me (Hollywood) debuted at #14 with 51,000 in sales. Yahoo! Music is selling the album as an MP3 download, which gained a lot of media attention. Did it help sales? Probably not much. Digital accounted for only 6% of the album's total.

Second-week drops: The Mars Volta nosedived 77%, Barenaked Ladies faded 69%, Timberlake sank 68%, Black Label Society was down 65%, Mastodon also dropped 65%, Papa Roach skidded 63%, Daz was down 63%, John Mayer was down 56%, Bob Segar was also down 56%, Lionel Richie faded 54%, Grey's Anatomy dropped 30% and Madeleine Peyroux was down only 4%.