Eminem CD: Year’s Top Seller

“The Eminem Show” continues to dominate the national album chart, selling another 808,000 copies last week--more than the rest of the Top 10 combined.

The figure pushes the Eminem album’s 15-day total to 2.4 million, making it the biggest-selling CD of the year. The runner-up is Alan Jackson’s “Drive,” which has sold 2.1 million copies since its release in mid-February.

Three albums are at the 1.9-million mark: Vol. 9 of “Now That’s What I Call Music,” “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” and Celine Dion’s “A New Day Has Come.”

How long can Eminem hold on to No. 1? The Detroit rapper could be challenged by Korn, whose “Untouchables” was released Tuesday. The hard-rock band’s last album, 1999’s “Issues,” sold 580,000 copies in its first week.

“From first-day sales, it looks like the new Korn album will fall somewhere in the half-million range, so the question is how much Eminem will decline in his third week,” Geoff Mayfield, director of charts for Billboard magazine, said Wednesday. “It looks like it will be a real race.” After Eminem, the best-selling album last week was Vol. 5 in the “Totally Hits” compilation series. “Totally Hits 2002” sold 137,000 copies.

New releases by three other artists entered the chart in the Top 10: Donell Jones (No. 3), Dirty Vegas (No. 7) and Avril Lavigne (No. 8). ‘N Sync’s pairing with Nelly on “Girlfriend” has been the nation’s best-selling single for three months.