Ashlee Simpson Reclaims Crown

Geoff Mayfield of Billboard weighed in on news that Ashlee Simpson’s sophomore album ‘I Am Me’ topped the Billboard Album Charts its first week out, but with sales much less than her ‘Autobiography’ debut. “Yes, the blond-again Simpson has enjoyed a daily presence on MTV’s ‘TRL’ and that network’s special for her 21st birthday, while her stops on ‘The Tonight Show With Jay Leno’ and ‘SNL’ paved the road for her new album,” Mayfield writes. “But ‘The Ashlee Simpson Show’ is gone, and radio has not jumped on any song since her first album’s lead track, ‘Pieces of Me’, spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard Radio Monitor’s Mainstream Top 40 chart.”