Contributor: Bob Smithouser

More than a million fans visited the band’s Web site when In Rainbows was offered as a name-your-own-price download. Then, a few months later, the physical CD topped the album chart.

Peaked at 4 and sold more than 500,000 copies. “Leave (Get Out)” became a hit single.

No. 1 album has sold more than a million copies

Two weeks as the nation’s No. 1 pop album

This Top-5 CD yielded the hits “Soulja Girl” and “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” which spent months as the nation’s hottest ringtone.

More than a month at No. 1 and 3 million sold. “Disco Inferno” and “Candy Shop” were simultaneous Top-5 hits.

Number-1 R&B disc peaked at 2 on the pop chart

Debuted at No. 1 on the pop and country charts. “Small Town Southern Man” became a No. 1 country hit.

Debuted at No. 1 and sold more than 2 million copies in under three weeks

Disc hit No. 1 with first-week sales of 540,000 copies. “Déjà Vu” was a Top-5 single. “Ring the Alarm” rose to 11.

Top-3 pop, No. 1 country disc

Crested at 8 on the pop album chart

Top-5 disc includes the hits “Smack That” and “I Wanna Love You”

Bowed as the No. 1 pop and R&B disc. “Be Without You” topped the R&B singles chart.

This incredibly poetic and nonsensical disc came in at No. 2 on the pop album chart.