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THE BILLBOARD Top 10

#1 This Week Mariah Carey E=MC2 2) Leona Lewis Spirit 3)Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords (Soundtrack) 4) Ashlee Simpson Bittersweet World 5) Atmosphere When Life Gives you Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold 6) Various Artists Now 27 7) Soundtrack Juno 8) George Strait Troubadour 9) Taylor Swift Taylor Swift 10) Phil Vassar Prayer of a Common Man

Bittersweet World

Jessica Simpson's sister, Ashley releases her third album, produced by Timberland, The Neptunes' Chad Hugo, Kenna and Jack Joseph Puig. Release date: 22 April 2008 Genre: Rock, Pop This new album, out today is just all about the jammin tracks. The way she did the Beyonce thing in her last album, it is something like that but much better. Of the Timbaland songs, though, there's club jams and even a couple of sort-of-rock ones, and a jazzy thing like Christina, and she just seems so, I don't know, it's like she's totally turned into Gwen. All that attitude . When she goes "Get outta my head" with that goofy voice, it's so cute.

Madonna is back...

Release date: 29 April 2008 Genre: Rock, Dance, Pop Pretty major, probably, but she makes it work with this surprisingly rejuvenated set. Now 49, Madonna has spent the past decade unevenly exploring moody trip-hop, chilly Eurodisco, and ethereal electronica — all of which are absent here. If you're looking for softness then this album is definitely not for you. Candy finds her dropping her Kabbalah string on the dance floor and readopting an American accent to offer up an unpretentious, nonstop dance party. In tunes like ''Give It 2 Me,'' she's unabashedly reviving the celebrative spirit of early singles like ''Lucky Star'' and ''Holiday,'' filtering it through hip-hop's sonic boom. ''Catch me on the floor/Working up a sweat/That's what the music's for,'' she asserts in ''Heartbeat,'' coming soon to a Pilates class near you. In the most exciting club banger, the aforementioned '...