Who Charted?: Bob, Beyonce, And Mayer McCheese

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Who Charted?: Bob, Beyonce, And Mayer McCheese

Welcome to our Wednesday-afternoon music-chart wrap-up, the second of approximately 328 posts today that will mention a certain ex-Mouseketeer named Justin. But how could we not repeatedly drop Trousernake references? The dude's FutureSex/LoveSounds is No. 1, with 684,000 copies sold. Behind him was John Mayer, whose recent indie-audience breakthrough no doubt helped him sell 300,000 copies of Continuum.

The two biggest surprises this week were Beyonce's B'Day taking a 70-percent nosedive, with a relatively wack 162,000 copies sold (we knew that honkified iTunes chart was on to something); and the triumphant return of Bob Seger, who sold 150,000 copies of his Face The Promise. This, despite his controversial pro-war ditty "Like Iraq."

Also of note: Lionel Richie's Coming Home earning him first Top 10 album in twenty years, and Nickelback's All The Right Reasons continuing to dominate the chart nearly a year after its release. Does Seger still live in Detroit? If so, could someone please implore him to do a midnight-boat run into Canada and take care of those yoo-hoos?

UPDATE: An alert reader has spotted a crucial mistake, which has since been corrected. We strive for fact-checking accuracy here, so it pains us to note that in paragraph two, sentence one, we accidentally spelled "wack" as "whack." We apologize, and we also apologize for using a phrase that hasn't actually been spoken since 2003.

Timberlake Earns First No. 1 Album With 'FutureSex' [Billboard]

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1:48 PM on Wed Sep 20 2006
By Brian Raftery
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by Ned Raggett at 12:58 PM on 09/20/06
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Boat run won't help, Chad Whatshisface lives near Vancouver last I heard. Get the A-Frames to launch a sneak attack.
by Ray Wert at 01:32 PM on 09/20/06
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SEGER! YES! DETROIT! YES! SEGER!

Weirdly enough, Seger went pro-enviro, advocating hybrids in the album.
by salsfamous at 02:08 PM on 09/20/06
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So, we've now discussed Weird Al and Chris Whatever from Tinkleback - both of whom serve as a reminder to Michael Bolton why it isn't so bad that he lost his pubie-long hair to male pattern baldness.
by rad_matter at 02:09 PM on 09/20/06
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I was expecting "B'Day" to fall hard the week after it came out. A lot of people outside the critical community were saying the record was horrible. I'm not surprised myself.
by Jon Solomon at 02:15 PM on 09/20/06
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While I have enjoyed the first week of Idolator quite well, I must alert you to the shivers I get every time I see this feature's title on my screen. Dare I ask what the other finalists were?
by Ignatius at 02:30 PM on 09/20/06
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This should server as a reminder of the cyclical nature of history/pop culture. I am old enough to eschew 80's nostalgia because I actually had to live through it. Seeing things like a former mouseketeer with minimal ability to mimic an R&B artist even with good production and Lionel Richie charting again reminds me of the 80's when I was turned on to punk/new wave/jazz/hardcore (i.e. anything not on the radio). More reason why there will/needs to be another Nirvana soon. Unfortunately the concept of burgeoning alternative music scenes in cities that helped pave the way for the indie golden years is gone and or co-opted by the biz looking for the next big thing. And yes this too is Bush's fault.
by tee. at 02:54 PM on 09/20/06
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Seger can't help you, because Nickleback live in the WEST. They are from WESTERN CANADA. Real badasses like Chad don't live anywhere but ALBERTA.