Charts: Chili Peppers Cap Cam'ron

05/24/2006 8:05 PM, E! Online
David Jenison

The Peppers are still poppin'.

After taking nearly 23 years to top the album charts, the Red Hot Chili Peppers aren't ready to relinquish their perch. For a second consecutive week, the band's Stadium Arcadium held the number one spot for the week ended May 21, selling another 157,000 copies, according to the latest Nielsen SoundScan numbers.

Stadium Arcadium's lead single "Dani California" continues to dominate the Modern Rock radio chart. The song, which opened at number one six weeks ago, remains in the pole position just ahead of Blue October's "Hate Me" and Tool's "Vicarious." Meanwhile, "Dani California" is working its way up the pop-driven Hot 100, currently in the sixth spot.

The Peppers' second-week numbers were just enough to fend off the biggest bow, Cam'ron's Killa Season, which sold nearly 114,000 discs in the two spot. The Harlem-born rapper, who's had high-profile feuds with Mase and Jay-Z in recent years, got lots of press last October after being shot three times as he fled attempted carjackers in DC.

Pop-rocker Ashley Parker Angel landed the next best bow at five. His solo debut, Soundtrack to Your Life, had 72,000 copies fly off the shelves. Angel is best known as part of the fabricated boy band O-Town, which formed as part of MTV's Making the Band. The singer's solo debut also benefited from MTV exposure, as the Moon Man network launched the new series There and Back to chronicle his comeback efforts.

The Raconteurs--a new side band by the White Stripes' Jack White--followed at seven with Broken Boy Soldiers. The disc, which features the rock hit "Steady, As She Goes," sold 61,000 copies in its opening week. In comparison, the White Stripes' last album, 2005's Grammy-winning Get Behind Me Satan, sold 189,000 first-week copies to score a career-best number three debut.

In its 19th week on the charts, the High School Musical soundtrack remains the oldest album in the Top 10. Climbing three spots to four, the soundtrack just passed the two million-copy mark by selling another 82,000 units. The album benefits from promos for the cable film's DVD release and the new enhanced soundtrack that both went on sale this past Tuesday.

The week's Top 10 holdovers included Tool's 10,000 Days at three, Rascal Flatts' Me and My Gang at six, Now That's What I Call Music! 21 at eight, Nick Lachey's What's Left of Me at nine and Pearl Jam's self-titled in the 10 spot.

Surprisingly, two big new albums just missed the Top 10. Singer-actress Christina Milian sold 50,000 copies of her new disc, So Amazin', to open at 11. Milian, who's currently lighting up the FM dial with "Say I," is known to moviegoers for roles in Be Cool, Torque, and Love Don't Cost a Thing and as the host of MTV's Wannabes.

Likewise, Hoobastank's Every Man for Himself opened at 12 with just under 50,000 copies. The SoCal rock band, which scored the massive Hot 100 hit "The Reason" in 2004, trailed Milian by just 278 discs.

Puerto Rican reggaeton artists Wisin y Yandel grooved their way to a number-80 bow with the deluxe edition of 2005's Pa'l Mundo. The new version sold over 12,000 copies for the week, bringing total sales of both editions to over 258,000 units.

Other noteworthy debuts included Twiztid's Jamie Madrox at 107 with Phatso, As I Lay Dying's Long March: First Recordings at 129, Dan Zanes & Friends' Catch That Train! at 138 and Mason Jennings' Boneclouds at 146.

Over on the singles chart, Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" takes over the top spot in its second week. The single, which should get another sales boost following last weekend's Saturday Night Live performance, sold 2,500 copies to overtake the number one spot. Her new album Loose drops on June 20.

The Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday include:

1. Stadium Arcadium, Red Hot Chili Peppers
2. Killa Season, Cam'ron
3. 10,000 Days, Tool
4. High School Musical soundtrack, various
5. Soundtrack To Your Life, Ashley Parker Angel
6. Me and My Gang, Rascal Flatts
7. Broken Boy Soldiers, The Raconteurs
8. Now That's What I Call Music! 21, various
9. What's Left of Me, Nick Lachey
10. Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam