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Valentine's Day gift buying and the President's Day weekend brought American record buyers out in droves last week, with sales of the Top 200 albums improving by 29.6% week-on-week to a shade under 6m. In the Top 20, the only album to suffer a decline was 50 Cent's Get Rich Or Die Tryin', which understandably edged down from its spectacular opening week tally of 872,000 to a still staggering 822,000. It remains number one by some distance, with the Dixie Chicks' Home in second place with sales of 170,000.50 Cent's single In Da Club remains at number two on the Hot 100, behind Jennifer Lopez and LL Cool J's All I Have.
While country veteran George Strait made the chart's highest debut, with his first ever live set For The Last Time debuting at number seven, the most impressive move within the chart--and clearly a popular Valentine's Day gift--came from Rod Stewart's (pictured) It Had To Be You: The Great American Songbook. The album, which peaked at number four in November, sprints 26-10 with sales leaping more than 87%. It means Stewart is back on top of the Brit list, ahead of Coldplay, even though the latter act's A Rush Of Blood To The Head climbs 24-21 on a 32% expansion in sales fuelled both by US ...