Moninca storms in at number one. (US chartfile).

Plagued by personal traumas, it has taken Monica five years to assemble her third and latest album, the appropriately titled After The Storm--but it's obviously been worth the wait and it debuts atop the US album chart this week, after selling 185,000 copies, mustering more than twice the first week sales of her last album. It's the 22-year-old's first number one album and writes another chapter in the success story of J Records, the imprint set up by Clive Davis when he was forcibly retired from Arista in 2000. BMG took a 50% share in J at the outset and the label proved so successful that BMG bought out the other 50% last November, and re-hired David to run RCA. Davis is still very much hands-on at J--whose hit artists include O-Town, Rod Stewart and Alicia Keys--and the label was also responsible for last week's number one. Dance With My Father by Luther Vandross, which slips 1-2 this week, after selling a further 182,000 copies. With Eurythmics veteran Annie Lennox's (pictured) Bare album slipping 4-5, J has three records in the top five. Non J albums in the five are Metallica's St. Anger, which dips 2-3, and Radiohead's Hall The Thief, also down a notch at number four. Although down only a place apiece, Vandross, Metallica, Radiohead and Lennox all ...