Successfully fending off the unlikely tag team of Enya and Bubba Sparxxx, Ja Rule will once again hold the top spot on next week's Billboard 200 albums chart.

The rapper's Pain Is Love sold 220,000 copies in its second week to stay planted at #1, according to sales figures released by SoundScan on Wednesday (October 17). The album debuted at the top of this week's chart after selling more than 360,000 copies during its first week in stores.

Ja Rule's chief competition for the top spot comes courtesy of new age songbird Enya, whose A Day Without Rain will inch up to #2 on next week's chart almost a full year after its release. Sales of the album leapt from 128,000 copies last week to 162,000 copies, buoyed by the soothing single "Only Time."

Next week's chart finds Enya sandwiched between Ja Rule and Bubba Sparxxx, who will ride his redneck rap to a #3 debut. Timbaland's protégé sold more than 132,000 copies of his Dark Days, Bright Nights to claim third place.

After passing the #1 spot to Ja Rule this week, Jay-Z will drop from #2 to #4 on next week's album chart. His The Blueprint sold another 128,000 copies in the last week to remain in the top five.

Familiar faces Nickelback (#5), Alicia Keys (#7), Linkin Park (#8), Usher (#9), P.O.D. (#10) and the Totally Hits 2001 collection (#6) will remain in the top 10 next week.

Save for Bubba's big debut, new releases will make little impact on the upper reaches of next week's chart. Opera phenom Charlotte Church will score the only other top 20 debut as Enchantment, a collection of show tunes, will land at #15, while the Snoop Dogg-centric soundtrack to "Bones" will debut at #39.

Next week's top 100 will also see debuts from the specially priced patriotic compilation Proud to Be American at #50, the O'Jays' For the Love ... at #53, Trace Adkins' Chrome at #59, Kenny Lattimore's Weekend at #63, the Strokes' Is This It at #74 and T.I.'s I'm Serious at #98. Volumes 1 and 2 of Bill & Gloria Gaither's A Billy Graham Music Homecoming will also crack next week's top 100, debuting at #87 and 97, respectively.

The back end of the top 200 will also see debuts from Leonard Cohen, the Red Star Sounds soul compilation and Alice Cooper.

For feature interviews with Ja Rule, Bubba Sparxxx and the Strokes, check out "Ja Rule: Love Hurts", "Bubba Sparxxx: 'Ugly' As He Wants To Be" and "The Strokes: Huge In England".