April 21, 2003
On a day in which Monica Lewinsky co-hosts The View and debuts as host of her very own Fox reality series, Mr. Personality, we have something far less scandalous but every bit as titillating to report:
It now appears American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson is a winner twice, as her debut release, Thankful (RCA), heads toward #1 on this week’s Album Chart. Indeed, the TV-bred starlet’s album looks like it will have sold around 300k when the counting’s done, thanks to a huge Easter weekend for the parent-friendly pop collection.
That’s enough to top hot rapper 50 Cent, whose The New Breed DVD-plus-CD package (Shady/Aftermath/Interscope), released just two months after his debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, should come in at over 250k.
Other titles hitting the chart include Fleetwood Mac’s Say You Will (WB) and country star/patriot Darryl Worley’s Have You Forgotten (DreamWorks), each of which appears on track to pass the 150k mark. Jimmy Buffet’s Meet Me in Margaritaville hits collection (UTV), meanwhile, will easily come in at over 125k, while Pete Yorn’s aggressively priced The Day I Forgot looks like it’ll do 70k or better.
-- 1 50 CENT SHADY/AM/INTERSCOPE 183,172
50 CENT THE NEW BREED
-- 2 KELLY CLARKSON RCA 152,313
THANKFUL
-- 3 FLEETWOOD MAC REPRISE 127,169
SAY YOU WILL
3 4 50 CENT SHADY/AM/INTERSCOPE 111,066
GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN'
2 5 LINKIN PARK WARNER BROS. 105,309
METEORA
8 6 NORAH JONES BLUE NOTE 80,048
COME AWAY WITH ME
4 7 NOW 12 CAPITOL 78,260
VARIOUS
-- 8 JIMMY BUFFETT UTV 75,105
MEET ME IN MARGARITAVILLE
1 9 GODSMACK REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL 74,317
FACELESS
-- 10 DARRYL WORLEY DREAMWORKS NASHVILLE 72,967
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN?
10 11 EVANESCENCE WIND-UP 69,645
FALLEN
6 12 CHER WSM 59,900
VERY BEST OF CHER
12 13 R.KELLY JIVE 49,603
CHOCOLATE FACTORY
5 14 LISA MARIE PRESLEY CAPITOL 45,868
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
14 15 WHITE STRIPES V2 45,699
ELEPHANT
15 16 SEAN PAUL VP/ATLANTIC/ATL G 44,408
DUTTY ROCK
-- 17 PETE YORN COLUMBIA/CRG 41,288
MUSICFORTHEMORNINGAFTER
20 18 AUDIOSLAVE EPIC/INTERSCOPE 40,560
AUDIOSLAVE
9 19 CELINE DION EPIC 38,174
ONE HEART
19 20 FABOLOUS ELEKTRA/EEG 37,473
STREET DREAMS
7 21 GINUWINE EPIC 37,362
SENIOR
22 22 GOOD CHARLOTTE DAYLIGHT/EPIC 36,522
YOUNG & HOPELESS
24 23 COLDPLAY CAPITOL 35,838
RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD
25 24 LIL' KIM ATLANTIC/ATL G 35,518
LA BELLA MAFIA
23 25 JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE 35,001
JUSTIFIED
21 26 AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA 33,394
LET GO
37 27 A.F.I. DREAMWORKS 32,805
SING THE SORROW
11 28 JAMES TAYLOR WSM 32,357
BEST OF JAMES TAYLOR
46 29 CHEVELLE EPIC 32,119
WONDER WHAT'S NEXT
16 30 KID ROCK LAVA/ATLANTIC/ATL G 31,593
COCKY
17 31 CHICAGO EPIC 31,579
SOUNDTRACK
-- 32 PETE YORN COLUMBIA/CRG 30,739
DAY I FORGOT
-- 33 LIZZIE MCGUIRE WALT DISNEY RECORDS 29,904
SOUNDTRACK
27 34 CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA 29,803
STRIPPED
35 35 THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS DREAMWORKS 29,464
THE ALL AMERICAN REJECTS
38 36 TRAPT WARNER BROS. 27,300
TRAPT
26 37 EMINEM AFTERMATH/INTERSCOPE 26,942
EMINEM SHOW
-- 38 CELINE DION EPIC 24,674
A NEW DAY HAS COME
-- 39 WIDESPREAD PANIC SANCTUARY 24,277
BALL
-- 40 JESSICA ANDREWS DREAMWORKS NASHVILLE 24,265
NOW
30 41 KIDZ BOP KIDS RAZOR & TIE 23,596
KIDZ BOP VOL.3
-- 42 TOBY KEITH MERCURY NASHVILLE 23,416
20TH CENTURY MASTERS
40 43 SIMPLE PLAN LAVA/ATL G 23,200
NO PADS NO HELMETS... JUST BALLS
34 44 TOBY KEITH DREAMWORKS NASHVILLE 22,609
UNLEASHED
29 45 DIXIE CHICKS OPEN WIDE/MONUMENT/COL 22,111
HOME
-- 46 FLOETRY DREAMWORKS 22,082
FLOETIC
-- 47 THE ATARIS COLUMBIA/CRG 19,620
SO LONG, ASTORIA
18 48 LUCINDA WILLIAMS LOST HIGHWAY/IDJ 18,625
WORLD WITHOUT TEARS
33 49 JOHN MAYER AWARE/COLUMBIA/CRG 18,548
ROOM FOR SQUARES
-- 50 VIVIAN GREEN COLUMBIA/CRG 18,513
Damn 50 Cent!
Building Album Sales Chart 
Not that I heard anything by her, eh.
