
NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) -
Santana proves that the star-studded album formula can work for a second time, as Shaman, featuring Michelle Branch, P.O.D., Macy Gray, Dido, and others, debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200.
Both the No. 1 debut and its first-week sales of 298,973 mark the highest in Santana's career. The album, which also features Seal, Citizen Cope, Musiq, Chad Kroeger, Ozomatli, and Placido Domingo, is the follow-up to the Grammy? Awards-winning, 25-times platinum Supernatural.
Fueled by the rock single, "All My Life," the Foo Fighters' fourth album, One by One, debuts at No. 3 on the chart with 121,540 in sales. Rod Stewart's jazz standards album fared quite well, too, as It Had To Be You: The Great America Songbook comes in at No. 4.
This is Stewart's first top 5 debut in more than 10 years.
Four other acts debut in the top 40 :
Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child bows at No. 12 with her debut solo album, Simply Deep
Michael W. Smith's Worship Again at No. 14
3LW's A Girl Can Mack at No. 15 and
Field Mob's From tha Roota to tha Toota debuts at No. 33.
Other notable debuts include:
Kenny G, Wishes, No. 64
David Bowie, Best of David Bowie, No. 70
Jaguares, El Primer Instinto, No. 95
Transplants, The Transplants, No. 96
SR-71, Tomorrow, No. 138
Donnas, Spend the Night, No. 140 and
Chris Robinson, New Earth Mud, No. 141.