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Article: Rod Stewart's 25 Year Journey Back to #1; Stardust ... The Great American Songbook: Volume III Enters the Billboard Top 200 at #1 and Marks Stewart's Highest All-Time Soundscan Figure and First Ever #1 Debut on the Billboard 200.
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- PR Newswire
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- October 27, 2004
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NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- As the saying goes, the third time's the charm. After a 25-year absence from the #1 album spot, J Records artist Rod Stewart with his album Stardust ... The Great American Songbook: Volume III enters the Billboard 200 Album chart at #1 on a first week Soundscan total of 240,043 copies sold. The Songbook albums are a musical and cultural phenomenon, and are now the biggest-selling ongoing series of new music recordings in history. This is also Rod Stewart's first ever #1 debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
Stardust is the follow-up to 2002's It Had To Be You ... The Great American Songbook (which spent 85 weeks on the chart, ...