Nothing new on the chart this week, though Kelly Clarkson does move up a few notches on the back of her new album. Unfortunately, the same effect doesn't apply to The Dream, whose album debuted at number two. The two singles he's released so far, including a lovely duet with Mariah Carey, "My Love", barely moved at all.
Not much of interest in this week's debuts, either. Carrie Underwood covers Motley Crue; Plies confirms his thugness by declaring, at the end of a lust duet with Ashanti, that she's "my property, I'm her owner"; Ciara, with help from Justin Timberlake, finally puts together a track that sounds like it could be a hit after over three years in the wilderness; Musiq Soulchild emotes and melismalizes over a track for four and half minutes without actually finding a song; and Montgomery Gentry brags some more about being white trash.
Finally, a brief word about "Hoedown Throwdown", the new Miley Cyrus track from the upcoming Hannah Montana movie. It's said that when Elvis was recording the soundtracks for his movies he would sometimes be so upset with the material he was given to sing that he became physically ill. Right now, Elvis is looking down on Miley Cyrus from rock and roll heaven and sympathetically throwing up.