The Clipse clinch highest entry. (US chartfile).

During a week in which no new blockbuster emerges, rap continues to dominate. Brothers Malice and Pusha T--known as The Clipse--secure the week's highest US debut with their album Lord Willin' popping into the chart at number four, after selling more than 120,000 copies, while Eminem and Nelly trade places at the top. Although Nelly enjoys his 11th straight week at number one on the Hot 100 singles chart, his Nellyville album suffered a 12% dip in sales last week. Rapidly escalating airplay for Eminem's new single Cleanin' Out My Closet (up 9-7 on the Hot 100 and gaining radio support faster than any other record in the chart) and publicity for his film 8 Mile helped his Eminem Show album to keep its losses to 4%. It sold a further 172,000 copies to take its cumulative total to 5.2m in 14 weeks, six of them at number one.

To women who are very popular in the UK saw their US fortunes improve this week. New Yorker Norah Jones (pictured), whose Come Away With Me album reached number three here a couple of weeks ago, finally enters the US Top 10 exactly six months after its chart debut. It climbs 13-10--but do not get the idea that Americans have not been buying it; it will sell its millionth copy in the next few days. The late Eva Cassidy's only appearance in the ...