Eminem's in Seventh-Week Heaven Atop Billboard 200

In the least shocking music news you'll read all week, Eminem's 'Recovery' once again earned the top spot on this week's Billboard 200 album chart.

Detroit's own 'Slim Shady' fought off six new entries to this week's Top 10 with sales of 116,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. His seven weeks at No. 1 is the longest non-consecutive reign at the top for any artist in nearly two years.

We know better than to doubt him, but Eminem's reign just might end next week with the release of Katy Perry's highly-anticipated new album 'Teenage Dream.'

Many other musicians made impressive debuts this week, led by another Motor City-bred artist, R&B singer/ producer Kem, who hits No. 2 by selling 74,000 copies of his third album, 'Intimacy.' If he really wants somebody close to him on this chart, he's got it in the form of gruff-voiced singer Ray LaMontagne, whose 'God Willin' & the Creek Don't Rise' stands at No. 3 with a tally of 64,000.

Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden reach a career-high No. 4 with 63,000 loyal fans picking up their 15 studio album, 'The Final Frontier.' Meanwhile, author, reality show contestant and overall multi-media star Trace Adkins gets back to doing what he does best, making hit country records, with 50,000 fans welcoming 'Cowboy's Back in Town' into their music collections, good enough for No. 5.

British songwriter David Gray probably lost a pint of Guinness beer or two in a bet after landing six slots below his current tour partner LaMontagne on this week's chart; but his 25,000 sales and the No. 9 opening position for his new album 'Foundling' is still very impressive.

John Mellencamp, who recently compared the Internet's effect on the music industry to that of an atomic bomb, still managed to somehow convince 24,000 people to re-visit the old-fashioned act of record buying to reach the No. 10 spot.

That leaves just three spots on the Top 10 for returning champions. Clearly fueled by attention from their new iTunes exclusive live EP, Lady Antebellum roars up six spots to No. 6 with 32,000 more people deciding they needed 'Need You Now,' well, now.

Recent chart Kings Arcade Fire and their critically praised album 'The Suburbs' dropped five spots No. 7 with 31,000 sales -- but still stayed just ahead of another suburban wonder, the indefatigable Justin Bieber. The well-coiffed one got another 30,000 presumably young music lovers to hand over their lunch money to earn the No. 8 spot.