It's a battle of country titans on the charts this week, with the strong debut of Alan Jackson's What I Do knocking Tim McGraw's two-week Number One Live Like You Were Dying from the top spot. Jackson's latest sold 177,800 in its first week, not quite the phenomenon that was 2002's Drive -- bolstered by the September 11th song "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)" -- which opened with 423,000 copies in January 2002.
Ray Charles' posthumous release Genius Loves Company fell a spot to Number Three (135,000), and Anita Baker, one of Charles' many soul disciples, debuted at Number Four, moving 131,000 copies of My Everything, her first album in a decade. The powerhouse compilation Now That's What I Call Music! 16 (128,000) and Ashlee Simpson's Autobiography (88,500), both former Number Ones, came in at Number Five and Six respectively.
Making the downward slide this week were Jill Scott and L.L. Cool J, whose records Beautifully Human and