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Alicia Keys, who scored the year’s second-highest debut with As I Am, slips just one spot to No. 2 this week according to Neilsen’s SoundScan. The songstresses’ third album pushed 348,500 copies for a two-week total of 1,092,200.

Teen sensation Chris Brown climbs one spot to No. 9 this week with 120,800 copies sold of his sophomore album, Exclusive. After three weeks, the album has scanned 525,400 discs with help from guests The Game, Big Boi, Lil’ Wayne, Kanye West and T-Pain.

Jay-Z slips 6 spots to No. 14, pushing 86,500 copies of the concept album American Gangster, which features production from Jermaine Dupri, The Neptunes, Just Blaze, DJ Toomp and Diddy as well as guest spots from Nas and Lil Wayne. After three weeks, the God MC’s sales total stands at 643,000.

Fresh off her performance on the American Music Awards with country duo Sugarland, Beyonce magically appears at No. 19 with 73,300 copies sold of B’Day. Released last September, the album’s sales total now stands at 2,983,300.

Former Black Eyed Pea Fergie continues to defy the odds after 62 weeks on the charts, climbing 12 spots to No. 26 this week. Her solo debut, The Dutchess, moved 56,300 copies for a total of 2,987,200 albums sold.

Keyshia Cole slumps one spot to No. 27 this week with 54,000 sold of her sophomore album, Just Like You. After 9 weeks, Cole’s sales total stands at 676,900.

Soulja Boy drops three spots this week to No. 32, selling 44,200 of his debut disc, Souljaboytellem.com. After eight weeks, the rapper/dance instructor has sold 381,200 copies.

Kanye West falls five spots to No. 39, selling 39,400 copies of his third disc, Graduation. After 11 weeks, the super producer and rapper has moved 1,714,000 units.

Bearded emcee Freeway debuted at No. 42 this week, selling 36,000 copies of Free At Last, his first CD since 2003’s Philadelphia Freeway. The disc features appearaces by Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Jadakiss, Busta Rhymes, Rick Ross and Scarface, among others.

Next week look for Pitbull to make an appearance on the Hip-Hop and R&B Charts.

If Chris Brown had his way, his latest album — the recently released Exclusive — would’ve been named Graduation instead. But according to the fleet-footed dancer, once Kanye West caught wind of the potentially overlapping LP titles, he … er … politely requested Brown consider renaming his project.

“At first I was naming it Graduation because I was 18,” Brown explained to MTV News. “But then Kanye was like, ‘I heard Chris is naming his album Graduation. I’m naming mine … .’ [He laughs.] I was like, I’ll change mine because I respect his reason more with [The] College Dropout and Late Registration, all that, so it kind of went with his. So I was like, I don’t need mine to be Graduation, you know, I’ll change mine to Exclusive, because I’ll make an album exclusively for my fans.”

Brown wasn’t so exclusive when it came to putting the project together — the Virginia native worked with Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Will.I.Am and other guests to make it happen. But the singer’s next single, the Stargate-produced “With You,” features Brown solo. According to him, the matching video — which he has already shot — also showcases Brown more singularly than his previous clips.

“I co-directed it as well,” he said of the video. “And it shows me more solo. Like, it shows the grown side of Chris — it doesn’t show the kiddie side. ‘Cause with this album, I wanted to blend, I wanted to do all different visuals of me. The first [video] ‘Wall to Wall,’ the acting, the vampires, the spookiness, then you go to ‘Kiss, Kiss,’ that had the little goofy part, now this one is solo, the main [performer] is me. Me freestyle dancing — just showing people me naturally, not a choreographed routine, just me dancing and showing you what I’m capable of. But at the same time, just having fun with the camera, and just one-on-one time with me and my audience.”

Brown’s label, Jive Records, recently announced plans for the singer to head out on a co-headlining tour with Bow Wow beginning December 6. The tour — which will also feature Soulja Boy, Lil Mama, Shop Boyz and Sean Kingston on select dates — is slated to run through Christmas and end two weeks into the new year. But Brown said to expect the tour to extend beyond the holiday season and the States as well.

“We doing it for the down South side [with the lineup], but me and Sean Kingston, he got it for like the south, south, in Jamaica,” Brown joked. “And then I got it for Virginia, so we gonna go crazy. It’s like a holiday tour, but I’m taking it worldwide. It was just fortunate that it started on the holiday, but once it starts, it’s gonna go worldwide.”