• Nickelback's 'All the Right Reasons' tops weekly album sales chart

  October 12, 2005
  Canadian rockers Nickelback scored their first U.S. No. 1 album with "All the Right Reasons" topping the Billboard 200 albums chart Wednesday.

• Kanye West tops Billboard singles charts for fifth week

  October 6, 2005
  Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring Jamie Foxx survived a fifth week atop the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Ringtones charts Thursday.

• Gretchen Wilson tops album sales chart, Sheryl Crow second

  October 5, 2005
  Gretchen Wilson scored a career-best sales week to land "All Jacked Up" atop The Billboard 200 and Billboard's Top Country Albums charts.

• Bush-bashing parody song downloaded more than one million times

  October 3, 2005
  The song parody "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" has been downloaded more than 1 million times since it debuted Sept. 6.

• Kanye West tops Billboard singles chart for 4th week, Mariah 2nd

  September 29, 2005
  Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring Jamie Foxx held onto the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for a fourth consecutive week Thursday.

• Kanye West tops Billboard singles charts for third straight week

  September 22, 2005
  Kanye West's single "Gold Digger" is No. 1 for a third consecutive week on Billboard's Hot 100, Hot Digital Songs and Hot Ringtones charts.

• Kanye West tops singles chart for 2nd week, Mariah Carey again 2nd

  September 15, 2005
  Kanye West's single "Gold Digger" is No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a second week and also tops Billboard's Pop 100 and R&B/Hip-Hop Songs charts.

• Kanye West tops album chart for 2nd week, 50 Cent jumps to 2nd

  September 14, 2005
  Kanye West's "Late Registration" and 50 Cent's "The Massacre" denied the Rolling Stones the No. 1 slot on The Billboard 200 album chart this week.

• Kanye West tops Billboard singles chart, ends Mariah Carey's reign

  September 8, 2005
  Kanye West's "Gold Digger" featuring Jamie Foxx hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Thursday, ending the reign of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together."

• BET announces 'SOS' Hurricane Katrina relief telethon lineup

  September 7, 2005
  Juvenile, Wynton Marsalis, David Banner, Baby and Lil Wayne will be among the performers for BET's telethon for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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