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Friday, January 23, 2009

Swift's "Fearless" tops U.S. album chart for 7th week

Taylor Swift performs in Times Square during New Year festivities in New York Dec. 31, 2008.

Country-pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's "Fearless" has topped the U.S. album chart for a seventh week, Billboard.com reported Wednesday.

Coming in at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 is Beyonce's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce," followed by Nickelback's "Dark Horse" at No. 3, the soundtrack to the Biggie Smalls bio-pic "Notorious" at No. 4 and Kanye West's "808s and Heartbreak" at No. 5.

Rounding out the top tier are the soundtrack to the vampire movie "Twilight" at No. 6, Britney Spears's "Circus" at No. 7, Jamie Foxx's "Intuition" at No. 8, Keyshia Cole's "A Different Me" at No. 9 and David Cook's self-titled debut at No. 10.

Taylor Alison Swift, born Dec. 13, 1989, has released her debut single "Tim McGraw" in 2006, which peaked at number six on the Billboard country charts.

Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis.

Among the two most important charts, the Billboard Hot 100, ranks the top 100 songs regardless of genre and is frequently used as the standard measure for ranking songs in the United States, while the Billboard 200 survey is the corresponding chart for album sales.

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