 NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - New Orleans hip-hop duo, Big Tymers, takes the No. 1 spot on The US Albums 200 this week as the group's third album, Hood Rich, rolls in with 160,458 in first-week sales. That's not the only impressive debut on the chart - the soundtrack to the blockbuster hit Spider-Man (powered by "Hero" from Nickelback's Chad Kroeger with Saliva's Josey Scott and the Hives' "Hate to Say I Told You So") debuts at No. 4 and 22-year-old piano-playing singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton's debut, Be Not Noboby comes in at No. 5. The top 10 now goes like this: Big Tymers, Ashanti, Kenny Chesney, Spider-Man, Carlton, Celine Dion, Now That's What I Call Music! 9, Sheryl Crow, Josh Groban, and O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Other notable debuts include: Ali, Heavy Starch, No. 24 Phish's Trey Anastasio, Trey Anastasio, No. 45 Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow, No. 49 Irish Tenors, Ellis Island, No. 66 and C-Murder, Tru Dawgs, No. 67.
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