Ludacris has No. 1 album

Atlanta rapper Ludacris entered the national sales chart at No. 1 with his new “Red Light District” album, which sold 322,000 copies during its first week in stores. That figure was significantly shy of the 430,000 copies his “Chicken-N-Beer” sold during its first week of release in October of last year but was more than enough to nail down the top slot.

U2 held on to the No. 2 position with “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb,” selling 280,000 more copies last week, putting it just ahead of Eminem’s still-strong “Encore.”

Veteran punk-pop band Green Day got the biggest sales boost from last week’s announcement of Grammy nominations, jumping 11 places on the chart, to No. 15. Sales of the band’s album-of-the-year-nominated “American Idiot” nearly doubled over the previous week, from 79,000 to 147,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released Wednesday.