It looks like Alicia Keys is finally relinquishing her choke hold on the charts, after experiencing a 33% drop in sales of her third album, As I Am. The Hells Kitchen songstress dropped to No. 8, but the 38,500 scanned this week brings her grand total to a soaring 3,245,300.

In this week’s Hip-Hop and R&B charts, Alicia Keys gives up her No. 1 spot, Mary J. Blige keeps Keys company in the Top 10 and Amy Winehouse rockets up 30 spots following her Grammy wins and performance Sunday night.
Alicia Keys continues to move units but fell to No. 3 this week with [...]

Alicia Keys’ “As I Am” has topped the U.S. album chart for a fourth, non-consecutive week, Billboard.com reported Wednesday. Coming in second on The Billboard 200 is the soundtrack to the Oscar-nominated film “Juno,” followed by the Mars Volta’s “The Bedlam in Goliath” at No. 3, Bullet For My Valentine’s “Scream Aim Fire” at [...]

If you think about it, the soundtrack to “Juno” — the sleeper film that’s now been nominated for a Best Picture Oscar — has no business being Billboard’s best-selling album. After all, it is a collection of songs from a number of relatively unknown and largely underground artists, musicians like Kimya Dawson, Sonic Youth, [...]

Alicia has scored a third non-consecutive week at the top of the U.S. album chart. The singer’s As I Am debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 last month (Dec 07) and returned to number one last week (16 Jan 08). Sales of just 61,000 were enough to keep the album at the top [...]

Alicia Keys is rolling ‘heads on the album chart.
Since debuting at number one last November, Keys’ As I Am hasn’t fallen out of the top three. Now, for the week ended Sunday, the album jumped over the Rainbows to knock Radiohead from its top-sitting perch.
As I Am sold 70,000 copies, according to the latest Nielsen [...]

In this week’s Hip-Hop and R&B charts, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Chris Brown rule the Top 5, while Lupe Fiasco, Keyshia Cole and Jahiem stake claim to Top 20 spots.
Alicia Keys continues to hold it down with her third album, As I Am, which stayed strong at No. 2 and sold 193,200 copies [...]