In a major week for new releases, Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive) rises to the top of The Billboard 200 with 684,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the artist's first No. 1; his solo debut, Justified, entered at No. 2 with 439,000 copies in 2002.

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John Mayer makes his sixth appearance on The Billboard 200 in five years with Continuum (Aware/Columbia), which debuts at No. 2 with 300,000. Its 2003 predecessor, Heavier Things, entered at No. 1 with 317,000. Continuum crowns the Top Rock Albums and Top Internet Albums charts this week as well.

After debuting at No. 1 last week, Beyonce's B'Day slips to No. 3 with 162,000 copies, a whopping sales decrease of 70 percent. With his first album in more than a decade, Bob Seger enters at No. 4 with Face the Promise. This Hideout/Capitol effort marks Seger's sixth visit to the chart's top five and first since 1986's Like a Rock peaked at No. 3.

Bob Dylan's Modern Times slips 3-5 with 93,000 copies, a sales dip of 27 percent. At No. 6, Lionel Richie's Coming Home (Island) lands him in the top 10 for the first time since 1986's Dancing on the Ceiling. The set moved 75,000 copies, Richie's best one-week sum since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991.

Hinder's Extreme Behavior continues to climb up the top 10, reaching its peak position of No. 7 after 33 weeks on the chart. The Universal Republic effort moved 64,000 with a 19 percent sales increase. Danity Kane's self-titled Bad Boy release falls 4-8 with 62,000 (-24 percent).

The Mars Volta's Universal set Amputechture bows at No. 9 with 59,000. The group's Frances the Mule fared better in 2005 with 123,000 units and a No. 4 debut.

Descending 8-10 in its 50th week on the chart, Nickelback's All the Right Reasons (Roadrunner) rounds out the top tier with 57,000 and a sales decrease of 3 percent.

The second volume to the Hollywood soundtrack to Grey's Anatomy, with songs from artists like Gomez, KT Tunstall, and Jim Noir, bows at No. 14 with 46,000. Papa Roach's The Paramour Sessions (Geffen) and Barenaked Ladies' Barenaked Ladies Are Me (Desperation) debut at No. 16 and No. 17, respectively, both selling 37,000. Moving 32,000, Black Label Society's Shot to Hell (Roadrunner) enters at No. 21. Mastodon earns its best week ever on the chart, with the No. 32 entry of Blood Mountain (Warner Bros.), which sold 24,000.

Other big entries this week include Madeleine Peyroux's Half the Perfect World (Rounder, No. 33, 24,000), Daz's So So Gangsta (Virgin, No. 35, 23,0000), Norma Jean's Redeemer (Tooth & Nail, No. 38, 21,000), and TV on the Radio's Billboard 200 debut, Return to Cookie Mountain (Interscope, No. 41, 21,000).

At 10.05 million units, overall CD sales are up 5.6 percent from last week's count and up 0.9 percent compared to the same week a year ago. Sales for 2006 are down 5 percent compared to 2005 at 374 million units.