‘Drive’ Still Cruising at No. 1

Alan Jackson’s “Drive,” which features the hit single “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning),” is the nation’s best-selling album for the second consecutive week.

The first-ever No. 1 collection for the veteran country singer sold 230,000 copies last week, 111,000 more than Creed’s “Weathered,” which was the runner-up in the sales race.

The remaining positions in the Top 10 were claimed, in order, by Linkin Park, Ludacris, Nickelback, Ja Rule, Nas, Usher, Pink and the “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack. The nation’s best-selling single continues to be B2K’s “Un Huh.”

Meanwhile, several albums are continuing to show staying power in a time when fan loyalty seems to be a vanishing quality in pop music.

Seven albums in the Top 70 this week have sold more than 2 million copies and have been on the charts for at least 30 weeks. They are, in order of their current position on the chart, Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” (66 weeks on the chart, 5.9 million sales), the “O Brother” soundtrack (57 weeks, 3.7 million), Enya’s “A Day Without Rain” (62 weeks, 5.6 million), Alicia Keys’ “Songs in A Minor” (31 weeks, 4.4 million), Staind’s “Break the Cycle” (36 weeks, 4.4 million), Jennifer Lopez’s “J.Lo” (53 weeks, 3.1 million) and U2’s “All That You Can’t Leave Behind” (65 weeks, 3.4 million).