NOW! Vol. 22 barely beats out DMX’s Year of the Dog … Again by just a few hundred copies for the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Year of the Dog … Again represents the lowest first week sales and the only non no. 1 debut for DMX on the Billboard 200.

1. NOW! That’s What I Call Music, Vol. 22
2. DMX – Year of the Dog … Again
3. Razor & Tie – Kidz Bop 10
4. Stone Sour – Come What(ever) May
5. LeToya Luckett – LeToya
6. Tom Petty – Highway Companion
7. Gnarls Barkley – St. Elsewhere
8. Five For Fighting – Two Lights
9. Pharrell Williams – In My Mind
10. Nickelback – All the Right Reasons

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