To beat country music’s two biggest albums it apparently takes a double dose of the country grammarian.

St. Louis rapper Nelly banked more bling last week as his two new albums, Suit and Sweat, entered the charts at one-two, respectively. He becomes the first artist to achieve the back-to-back placement with separate, simultaneously released albums since Guns N’ Roses last accomplished the feat 13 years ago this month with Use Your Illusion I and II.

For the week ended Sunday, Suit sold 396,000 copies for the number one spot and Sweat 342,000 copies at number two, according to Nielsen SoundScan numbers released Wednesday. The albums sold a combined 737,000-first week copies, which bests the rest of the Top 10 tally by a full 66,000 discs.

Nelly, whose wardrobe seems to primarily consist of Band-Aids and, yes, sweatsuits, replace last week’s one-two Nashville punch of Alan Jackson’s What I Do and Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying, which fell to numbers seven and three, respectively.

With two new discs dropping at the same time, Nelly also has multiple singles at radio. Suit features the radio hit “My Place” with Jaheim, and Sweat heats it up with “Flap Your Wings” and the Christina Aguilera duet, “Tilt Ya Head Back.” (Nelly last lit up the airwaves a year ago with his P. Diddy-Murphy Lee collaboration, “Shake Ya Tailfeather,” which kept the Bad Boys II soundtrack at number one for four straight weeks.)

Nelly’s previous studio albums, 2000’s Country Grammar and 2002’s Nellyville, also topped the charts. Last November, the emcee debuted at 12 with his remix disc Da Derrty Versions, while his rap collective the St. Lunatics scored a number-three bow in 2001 with Free City.

In a week that was all Nelly, the rest of the Top 10 was all holdovers: Ray Charles’ Genius Loves Company at four, Now That’s What I Call Music! 16 at five, Ashlee Simpson ‘s Autobiography at six, Maroon 5’s Songs About Jane at eight, Anita Baker’s My Everything at nine and Usher’s Confessions back in the Top 10 at 10.

Megadeth claimed the week’s next best bow as The System Has Failed sold 46,000 copies at 18. The group, which started after Dave Mustaine quit Metallica in 1983, thought it was finished in early 2002 when an injury left the singer-guitarist with radial neuropathy, a condition that kept him from playing guitar. The System Has Failed marks the group’s unexpected return.

Flogging Molly opened strong at 20 selling nearly 38,000 copies of Within a Mile of Home. The L.A.-based indie rockers, who made their record bin debut in 2000, gained notice for their blend of upbeat punk rock and traditional Irish music.

On the strength of their new single “1985,” Bowling for Soup’s A Hangover You Don’t Deserve debuted at 37 with 22,000 copies, while Tears for Fears celebrated their reunion at 46 selling 20,000 copies of Everybody Loves a Happy Ending. This marks Tears’ first studio album since 1989’s platinum-selling Seeds of Love.

The television soundtrack Will & Grace: Let the Music Out, featuring songs by Queen, Elton John and Barry Manilow , sold 17,000 copies at 57. Electronic music masterminds Prodigy made their long-awaited chart return with Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned moving 16,000 copies at 62. The disc features guest vocals from actress Juliette Lewis.

Other notable debuts included Gov’t Mule’s Déjà Voodoo at 86, Faint’s Wet from Birth at 99, Dem Franchize Boyz’s self-titled at 106, the Thrills’ Let’s Bottle Bohemia at 153, Dolly Parton’s Live & Well at 161 and Joni Mitchell’s Dreamland at 177.

Meanwhile, on the singles chart, the American Idol run finally ended. Owning the chart for most of 2004, the past three chart champs were all Idol participants–Clay Aiken , Fantasia and Diana DeGarmo–who simply swapped positions. It took a not so reality TV star to stop them: Brooke Hogan, a WWE wrestler and daughter of legend Hulk Hogan, sold 2,300 copies of “Everything to Me” to top the charts, beating runner-up DeGarmo by a mere 116 discs.

Here’s a recap of last week’s Top 10 albums:

1. Suit, Nelly
2. Sweat, Nelly
3. Live Like You Were Dying, Tim McGraw
4. Genius Loves Company, Ray Charles
5. Now That’s What I Call Music! 16, various
6. Autobiography, Ashlee Simpson
7. What I Do, Alan Jackson
8. Songs About Jane, Maroon 5
9. My Everything, Anita Baker
10. Confessions, Usher

Credit: E! Online