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Jack Johnson's 'To The Sea' Floats To Top Of Billboard

Justin Bieber inches back to #2, and Taio Cruz debuts at #8 with Rokstarr.

If it's summertime, then it just makes sense that ultimate surfer-dude Jack Johnson should be bobbing at the top of the Billboard 200 album charts. The mellow wave-rider's latest, [article id="1640470"]To the Sea,[/article] will easily grab the #1 spot next week thanks to sales of 243,000 in one of the best debuts of the year, according to figures provided by Nielsen SoundScan.

That tally easily bested the week's #2 album, Justin Bieber's My World 2.0, which nudges up one spot to #2 after moving another 52,000 copies. The only other newcomers in the top 10 are [article id="11634365"]Taio Cruz, whose Rokstarr[/article] lands at #8 (24,000) and former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken, who hits #9 with his oldies covers album, Tried & True (22,000).

The rest of the top 10: Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers (#3, 45,000), Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (#4, 41,000), Usher's Raymond v. Raymond (#5, 35,000), Lady Gaga's The Fame (#6, 33,000), Carole King and James Taylor's Live at the Troubadour (#7, 25,000) and Ke$ha's Animal (#10, 20,000).

Business was way down for [article id="1639961"]reunited rockers Stone Temple Pilots[/article], whose self-titled comeback album shed 71 percent of its first-week business, dropping 14 spots to #16 on sales of 18,000. The fall was not quite as hard for Nas and Damian Marley, whose Distant Relatives falls eight spots and 32 percent to #18 in week two (17,000).

Discount sales on iTunes help the indie supergroup Broken Bells jump 29 spots to #38 (9,000), while emo stalwarts Hawthorne Heights hit #50 with Skeletons (7,000) and blog-hot noise duo Sleigh Bells rocket back up 110 slots to #55 with their month-old debut, Treats (7,000).

Though very little he does is quiet, the chart debut from Russell Brand's "Get Him to The Greek" band, Infant Sorrow, sneaks in at #148 (4,000), no doubt thanks to such NSFW anthems as "Going Up," "F.O.H." and "Little Bird."

Look for the top 10 to get a makeover next week with new albums from Christina Aguilera, the "Twilight Saga: Eclipse" soundtrack, another "Glee" compilation and discs from rappers Lil Jon and Plies.

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