Carrie Underwood Leads Album Chart, Neil Young Falls Short

Carrie Underwood is definitely leaving fellow American Idol champ Kelly Clarkson in the dust. Underwood's sophomore album and follow-up to her multi-platinum selling Some Hearts takes the top spot on the charts this week. Underwood's Carnival Ride sold more than half a million copies this week, beating out the Number Two album, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' collaboration Raising Sand, by more than 400,000 albums. Country star Gary Allan also placed high at Number Three with Living Hard and System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian's solo debut placed well for its first week - at Number Four after selling 69,000 copies.Neil Young's new album Chrome Dreams II debuted this week at a disappointing Number Eleven. It only sold 54,000 copies.Billboard 200 Top Ten:1)Carrie Underwood, Carnival Ride (527,000 copies sold)2)Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand (112,000 copies sold)3)Gary Allan Living Hard (69,000 copies sold)4)Serj Tankian Elect the Dead (69,000 copies sold)5)Josh Groban Noel (65,000 copies sold)6)Coheed & Cambria's No World for Tomorrow (62,000 copies sold)7)Kid Rock Rock N Roll Jesus (61,000 copies sold)8)Rascal Flatts Still Feels Good (57,000 copies sold)9)Seether Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces (57,000 copies sold)10)High School Musical 2 (57,000 copies sold)