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Dylan is in at No. 1 this week with Together Through Life, his fifth chart-topping album. The Hannah Montana soundtrack is No. 2 again.

New entrants into the top 20 include Heaven & Hell's The Devil You Know; the Playing for Change album featuring songs put together from tracks recorded all over the world; and The Voice, by Mike Jones.

The sobering numbers:

• Album units, current chart week: 6.2 million units

• DOWN 0.6% from last week's charts: 6.2 million units

• DOWN 18.3% from same week, 2008: 7.6 million units

• This week: Only the No. 1 album sells more than 100,000 copies.

• This week last year on the Billboard 200: Madonna's Hard Candy led a whopping seven entries in the top 10 with its 280,000 debut. Lyfe Jennings' Lyfe Change was the next-highest bow at No. 4 with 80,000.

• The No. 50 album this week, Soulja Boy Tell'em's iSouljaBoyTellem (ColliPark/Interscope/IGA), sold 10,000.

• The No. 50 album for the same week of 2008, Michael Buble's A Taste of Buble EP (143/Reprise/Warner Bros.), sold 13,000.

• Average total of the No. 50 album for the same week of the year during the past 10 years (2000-2009): 18,928.

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