Rod Stewart continues his string of cover song success with Still The Same...Great Rock Classics Of Our Time. The J Records album debuted at #1 this week after selling 184,000 (a scant 3% of that was digital). That was 20,000 more than Evanescence sold of The Open Door (Wind Up) in its second week of release. In third place was the debut of Lloyd Banks' Rotten Apples (Interscope) at 142,000 (4% digital). Jimmy Buffett's Take The Weather With You (RCA) debuted at #4 with 121,000 (5% digital).

The big gainer of the week was Corinne Bailey Rae's self-titled Capitol debut. After an October 7th appearance on Saturday Night Live, the album gained 33% and moved to #34 from #54. The album has been steady since its release. In 17 weeks it has sold 429,000 units and has been in the Top 40 almost the entire time.

Congratulations to Gnarls Barkley. St Elsewhere (Downtown) went over the 1,000,000 scans mark.

Second-week fades: Jet plummetted 70%, The Killers were down 68%, Monica faded 68%, Evanescene dropped 63%, George Strait sank 62%, Beck dropped 56%, Fred Hammond dropped 42% and The Decemberests faded only 32%. That drop by Jet took Shine On (Atlantic) to #56 from #16 in its second week. Horrible album reviews must have caught up with it.

For the week, album sales were down 3%. Non-traditional (think digital and online) was down 11% and mass merchants were down 10%. There wasn't a big digital single, either. Hinder's "Lips of an Angel" stayed at #1 with 74,000 units sold.