The Queen Is DEFINITELY Back!

[CarolinaCutie]

Chart "Love" for Mary J.

The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has reclaimed her throne.

Fresh off an appearance on last week's MTV Video Music Awards and a visible promo campaign, the regal one, Mary J. Blige ascended to the top spot on the charts with her new album, Love & Life.

For the week ended August 31, Love & Life ruled the charts by selling 286,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers released Wednesday.

The new disc reunites Blige with one of her mentors, P. Diddy, who previously produced 1992's What's the 411 and 1994's My Life. In addition to Diddy (who surprisingly shouts "Bad Boy" just once on the entire album), other guest emcees included Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Eve and Method Man.

While Blige's 1997 release, Share My World, also opened at number one, her past two albums just barely missed the top spot: 1999's Mary fell 3,000 copies short of dethroning a surging Backstreet Boys, while 2001's No More Drama was overshadowed by Aaliyah's shocking death, which propelled the fallen singer's final disc 18 spots to number one.

Here's a rundown of last week's Top 10 albums:

1. Love & Life, Mary J. Blige (news)
2. Metamorphosis, Hilary Duff
3. The Neptunes Present...Clones, Neptunes
4. Greatest Hits Vol. II, Alan Jackson
5. Drankin' Patnaz, Youngbloodz
6. Dangerously in Love, Beyoncé Knowles
7. Fallen, Evanescence
8. Bad Boys II soundtrack, various
9. Jackpot, Chingy
10. A Rush of Blood, Coldplay
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A-IGHT!!!!!!! I knew my girl was gonna top the charts right after her release. I've been playin' it daily since I bought it last Tuesday. And I stand corrected when I thought none of her other CD's could ever top "My Life". But..."Love & Life" is juss as good, if not betta! It's hard to choose a favorite from this CD because they're all good. However, if I had to narrow it down to one song, it would be "Not Today" f/Eve because Eve comes with it! Ol' girl ain't playin' on this song! Anyway...congrats, Mary! You holdin' it down once again!

[DruDiamond]

Go Mary, go Mary it's ya birthday!!! Do ya thang girl

[aDRUfan4LiFe]

Go Mary! Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see her yesterday at the Redskin's Kickoff Concert, but I did see highlights! She looked and sounded good. She had the same setup as the MTV awards.

Ugh for Brittney Spears! She had on her little sister's draws!

[CarolinaCutie]

I almost missed tapin' her performance last night until my sis told me it was on. Ol' girl was rockin' those stiletto boots jumpin' up and down and stuff--lol! But anyway...as soon as Brit came on, I changed the channel with the quickness although I changed back to watch a lil' bit of Aerosmith's performance.