Lil' Kim
The Naked Truth
Rap/Hip-Hop

This No. 3 R&B, No. 6 pop debut includes the Top-10 urban single “Lighters Up.”

Common
Be
Rap/Hip-Hop

Album climbed as high as No. 2

Garth Brooks
The Life of Chris Gaines
Country, Pop
Lily Allen
It’s Not Me, It’s You
Alternative, Pop

Allen’s sophomore effort hit No. 5 on Billboard’s album chart.

John Mayer
Continuum
Folk, Pop, Rock

Million-selling disc peaked at No. 2 and contains the smash single “Waiting on the World to Change”

Dixie Chicks
Wide Open Spaces
Country

The trio’s Top-10 pop debut hit number 2 on the country chart (more than 2 million copies sold). “”Wide Open …

Seal
Human Being
Pop

A Top-25 debut for the Grammy-winning artist born Sealhenry Samuel

Madonna
Confessions on a Dance Floor
Pop

Album debuted at No. 1. “Hung Up” was a Top-10 single.

Green Day
21st Century Breakdown
Pop, Punk, Rock

The pop-punk trio’s eighth studio album debuted at No. 1.

Chevelle
This Kind of Thinking (Could Do Us In)
Alternative, Christian/Gospel, Metal, Rock

Top-10 debut

Incubus
Morning View
Rock

The group achieved its highest debut ever, landing at number 2.

Kings of Leon
Aha Shake Heartbreak
Rock

Peaked at No. 55

Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff
Pop, Rock

Duff’s self-titled project climbed as high as No. 2 and has sold more than a million copies.

Snoop Doggy Dogg
Tha Doggfather
Rap/Hip-Hop

CD went straight to number 1

Insane Clown Posse
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers
Rap/Hip-Hop

Disc peaked at number 4