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The Year of Usher

For Usher, below, it has been a very good year. His single ''Yeah!,'' featuring Lil Jon and Ludacris, was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart for 12 weeks, and was immediately followed in the top slot by his ''Burn,'' which stayed there for eight weeks, giving him a 20-week consecutive run at the top of that Billboard list, a record. (The Hot 100 is calculated through a combination of sales and radio play.) ''Yeah!'' and ''Burn'' captured both the No. 1 and No. 2 slots on the magazine's year-end singles chart, which Billboard says is the first time one act has performed that feat since 1964, when the Beatles had ''I Want to Hold Your Hand'' and ''She Loves You.'' Usher didn't have a bad year with albums, either. The R&B crooner's ''Confessions'' (La Face) rode high in the Billboard charts not once but twice: the original release of the album, in March, reached No. 1, and a ''Special Edition'' reissue in October, with four additional tracks (including the hit ''My Boo,'' with Alicia Keys), reached No. 2. The combined sales to date for the two albums is 7.3 million, according to Nielsen SoundScan. BEN SISARIO 


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