USHER has scored a TransAtlantic double after taking his new album HERE I STAND to the top of both U.S. and U.K. charts.
The release hit number one in Britain at the beginning of the week (02Jun08) and now it has debuted at the top in America too with impressive 433,000 first-week sales.
It's the second biggest debut of the year, 20,000 copies behind Mariah Carey's E=MC2.
The Sex and the City movie soundtrack debuts at two on the new chart, while last week's number one, 3 Doors Down's eponymous new album, slips to three.
On the singles chart, rapper Lil Wayne's Lollipop begins a fourth week at number one, while Leona Lewis' Bleeding Love remains unmoved at two and Coldplay's Viva La Vida jumps up seven places from 10 to three to round out the new top three.
Lil Wayne also scores the highest debut on the Hot 100 - his Got Money collaboration with T-Pain enters the chart at 13.
