Nine-time Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys' ground breaking fourth album As I Am moves up to #12 on the ARIA Motorola Album Chart this week after debuting at #15, the highest Australian debut for Keys to date.
The first single to be lifted from the album, No One, also jumps up the singles chart to #5 this week and up ten spots on the national radio airplay chart.
The Australian chart results for As I Am follow on from a recording breaking No #1 debut in the US, with first week sales of 742,426 units, the biggest debut for a female R&B artist in SoundScan history, and the highest selling debut for a female artist since 2004. As I Am is also the second highest selling debut week of any artist over the past 2 years, behind Kanye West's Graduation. This release marks Alicia's fourth consecutive US #1 debut and her biggest sales week to date (her previous chart-topping debut was 2003's Diary of Alicia Keys which scanned 618,335).
Also in the US, Alicia's hit single No One moves into the #1 spot on Billboard's Hot 100 chart this week with an all format audience of 174 million! The single continues to hold the #1 spot for 5 consecutive weeks on the Urban Mainstream chart, Top 3 at Rhythm radio for the past 3 weeks and breaks through to the Top 10 at Top 40 radio with the #9 slot this week.
Since the 2001 debut of Songs In A Minor, the New York native has built an unparalleled repertoire of hits and accomplishments with over 20 million albums sold worldwide. Songs In A Minor, which spawned her signature hit "Fallin," sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and garnered five Grammy Awards including Best New Artist and Best R&B Album. Alicia's follow-up disc, 2004's The Diary of Alicia Keys, which is currently 7 times platinum, captured four Grammy Awards and featured the hits "If I Ain't Got You," "You Don't Know My Name," and "Karma." With the 2005 release of Unplugged, which has sold 2 million copies, Keys became the first female R&B artist to have three consecutive #1 debuts on the Billboard 200 album chart in as many releases.
