In his current single, Ludacris advises us all to "Get Back." Well, based on the first-week sales of his new album, people just aren't listening: The Red Light District will top next week's Billboard albums chart after selling more than 322,000 copies last week, according to SoundScan.

Red Light is Luda's second consecutive album to debut at #1 (following 2003's Chicken-N-Beer), and it outsold its closest competitor, U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, by a healthy amount. But the Irish elder statesmen probably aren't all that concerned, as Atomic Bomb still sold more than 280,000 copies in its third week of release, just a 3 percent drop in sales from the previous week's total.

Eminem's Encore moves up one spot to #3, with sales of more than 272,000 copies, putting him ahead of the week's second-highest debut: Lindsay Lohan's Speak. The actress-turned-songstress sold more than 261,000 copies of her first album to land at #4. By contrast, 2004's other big actress/songstress (and reported Lohan nemesis), Hilary Duff, managed to sell just 121,000 copies of her self-titled album in its first week earlier this year. Lohan triumphant!

There appears to be no stopping another chart champ, the ubiquitous Now That's What I Call Music! 17. The pop-music comp moves up three to #5 after selling more than 243,000 copies (a 44 percent jump from the previous week's sales). Shania Twain holds steady at #6, selling more than 237,000 copies of her Greatest Hits.

Destiny's Child leap two spots to #7 with Destiny Fulfilled, which sold more than 213,000 copies last week. Toby Keith's Greatest Hits: Vol. 2 follows at #8, with sales of more than 191,000 copies.

In stark contrast to the steady sales of U2's Atomic Bomb, Jay-Z and Linkin Park -- last week's chart toppers -- suffered a massive drop in sales. Their Collision Course mash-up plummets to #9 after selling more than 186,000 copies (a dip of 49 percent from the previous week's numbers).

Rounding out the top 10 is Clay Aiken, whose Merry Christmas With Love finally appears to be hitting its stride. The balladeer sold more than 181,000 copies of the album, which moves up slightly from the #13 position.

All this talk of sales percentages and position-jostling brings up an interesting (if not particularly surprising) fact: Grammy nominations equal increased numbers. Next week's chart reflects the week ending on December 12 -- Grammy noms were announced on December 7 -- so sales were up across the board. Witness Green Day, who landed six nominations and saw sales of American Idiot explode by 86 percent (more than 146,000 copies sold, up from 78,000 the previous week).

The Killers -- nominated for three Grammys -- enjoyed nearly double the sales of the previous week (their album, Hot Fuss, sold more than 45,000 copies, up from 28,000). The late Ray Charles (seven noms) and country upstart Gretchen Wilson (four noms) each saw sales jump 36 percent. And Kanye West, who scored more nominations (10) than anyone else, doubled his previous week's sales and leapt all the way up to #159, after months of falling down (and eventually out of) the top 200. Overall, artists in the top 200 sold more than 9 million albums, an increase of more than 2 million copies from the previous chart.