At the top of the charts this week, one former "American Idol" participant replaces another, as season eight's Danny Gokey makes way for season three's Fantasia. "The Thrill Is Gone," by Fantasia featuring Cee-Lo Green, moves 2-1, making the first official No. 1 hit on my charts for Fantasia ("I Believe" came during the chart hiatus of the middle part of the 2000s) and the fourth for Cee-Lo Green (following his collaboration with Santana and Lauryn Hill in 2000, Gnarls Barkley in 2006 and "Forget You" just five weeks ago).
Meanwhile, season nine "Idol" runner-up Crystal Bowersox makes her chart debut this week. "Speak Now" enters at No. 39 from her major-label debut CD, "Farmer's Daughter."
Debuting at No. 38 with the throwback R&B ballad "How Do I Tell Her?" R. Kelly joins a run of adult R&B artists in this week's countdown, including El DeBarge, Jazmine Sullivan, Sunshine Anderson, Eric Benet, Fantasia and Cee-Lo Green. That list is almost as long as the list of country crossovers that amassed the past month and a half: Danny Gokey, Darius Rucker, Trace Adkins, Rascal Flatts, Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, Keith Urban and Christian Kane.
Still, the highest of this week's debuts, at No. 37, belongs to neither country nor R&B, but smooth jazz/AC. Saxophonist Dave Koz earns his first Top 40 chart hit with a remake of "This Guy's in Love With You." The artist who originally scored nationally with the song in 1968, Herb Alpert, is a guest on Koz's remake. (You'll hear his distinctive trumpet near the end of the Koz version.) This marks Alpert's first time in the Top 40 since 1987, when he and Janet Jackson went to No. 1 with "Diamonds."
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