JACK JOHNSON - JOHNSON STAYS ON TOP AS GRAMMY STARS SURGE

JOHNSON STAYS ON TOP AS GRAMMY STARS SURGE

JACK JOHNSON has scored a second week at the top of the U.S. albums chart - just managing to steal the number one spot from a surging AMY WINEHOUSE. The British soul singer's success at the Grammy Awards led to an increase in sales of her 2006 album Back To Black, which jumped from number 24 to a new chart high at two. But 180,000 sales of Jackson's Sleep Through The Static was enough to keep the surf-rocker on top. Album Of The Year Grammy winner Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters also storms up the chart from 159 to five, with 54,000 sales. Grammy performer Alicia Keys stays put at three with As I Am and the 2008 Grammy Nominees compilation climbs up a spot from five to four. The week's highest new entry belongs to Simple Plan whose self-titled new album debuts at 14. Michael Jackson's Thriller reissue was ineligible for a Billboard 200 place as it's considered a catalogue release, but the 25th anniversary edition debuts at number one on the Top Pop Catalog Albums countdown with opening week sales of 166,000.