STILL THE KING!

Number Ones is #1 again this week, falling just short of 100k, followed by Essential (#3) and Thriller (#4), along with six others in the Top 50: Bad (#21), Dangerous (#25), Off the Wall (#27), Jackson 5’s Ultimate Collection (#29), Michael’s Ultimate Collection (#36) and Jackson 5’s 20th Century Masters (#48).

The top debut of the week goes to Mercury Nashville’s Grammy winning Sugarland, whose Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club exclusive CD/DVD Live on the Inside, featuring an amazing cover of Kings of Leon’s “Sex on Fire,” bows at #2, with 74k.

The other Top 10 newcomer is co-ed country band Gloriana, with a self-titled debut on former Virgin boss Matt Serletic’s Atlantic-distribbed Emblem label, rounding out the Top 5.

Sony Music’s Now 31 (#6), RCA/RMG’s surging Kings of Leon (#7), Interscope’s Black Eyed Peas (#8), Columbia’s Maxwell (#9) and 19/RCA/RMG’s Daughtry (#10) complete the leader board.

Thanks to the Gloved One, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz’s Sony Music Entertainment once more sports seven of the Top 10, with Barry Weiss’ RCA/JIVE Music Group accounting for two of 'em in KOL and Daughtry, with the rest under the watch of Columbia/Epic Music Group’s Rob Stringer.

Leading the list of Top 50 entries are Razor & Tie’s cottage industry Kidz Bop 16 (#11), Up&Up/Universal Republic’s K’Jon (#15), Epic’s Modest Mouse EP (#19), Walt Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place soundtrack (#30), Integrity/Columbia’s Hillsong (#45) and Sire’s (500) Days of Summer soundtrack (#49).

On the strength of the new live release, Sugarland’s last album, Love on the Inside, led the double-digit gainers, moving #43-24, +76%. Next highest increase goes to Atlantic’s Zac Brown Band, up 5% at #16.

Hitting retail this week for chart debuts next Tuesday are MCA Nashville’s George Strait, Decaydance/Atlantic’s Cobra Starship and Mercury/IDJ’s Jessie James.