Billboard Charts: Usher Delivers Record Setting Debut

Posted by Ashish on 03.31.2004

Plus new debuts from Guns N Roses, N*E*R*D, and more...

Usher's new album, Confessions, debuted at #1 on the latest Billboard charts with over 1.1 million first week copies sold. The album is the best debut from a male R&B artist ever, topping R. Kelly's 543,000 first week copies sold for tp-2.com. The album is also the biggest first week seller of 2004, topping the 1 million copies that Norah Jones' Feels Like Home sold.

Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 15 sold 343,000 first week copies to debut at #2.

Greatest Hits from Guns N Roses debuts at #3 with 169,000 copies. The original bandmembers had filed a lawsuit to stop the release of this album but lost.

Carl Thomas' Let's Talk About It debuts at #4 with 139,000 copies sold.

Norah Jones drops all the way down to #5 with Feels Like Home selling another 121,000 copies.

Fly or Die from N*E*R*D debuts at #6 with 119,000 copies.

Evanescence takes the #7 spot with Fallen, followed by Kanye West's The College Dropout.

At #9 is Jessica Simpson's In This Skin.

Rounding out the top ten is Kenny Chesney's When The Sun Goes Down.