Top 10 Pop New Releases March 21, 2006

Prince returns 2 years after his powerful comeback with Musicology. With that album free concert handouts were counted on the chart as sales. This time it is only real in-the-store and online sales that count.

This is the ultimate package for My Chemical Romance fans. It includes a CD of live performances and 2 DVDs including a video diary, in-concert film, and the group's boundary expanding music videos.

The teenage singer-songwriter is generating very strong buzz with this first album. Teddy Geiger is clearly a talent to watch.

This is the first proper album of new pop songs by the group Chicago in 15 years. They are the second most successful American pop band of all time (only the Beach Boys have done better on the charts).

If you've not listened to Ben Harper on any of his previous 6 albums, this is the collection to hear. It is a 2 disc set of songs that span the wide range of Harper's interests from folk to pop to rock to funk and back again.

This band's contemporary updating of classic post-punk has taken them into the top 5 of the UK's pop album chart. Now, the Atlantic crossing is in process.

If Jack Johnson's Curious George music is starting to wear thin, but you love the laidback style, try singer-songwriter Josh Rouse's latest. It's a collection of warm, comfortable, laidback, Americana-tinged pop tunes.

This is the latest collection from the deans of American a capella pop.

Look for more high-spirited new wavish pop-rock from this Swedish group. The critical buzz is quite good for this latest album.

Speaking of new wave, the man that sang about "Cars" amid synthesizers and drum machines when it all seemed new is still around. This is his latest collection of new recordings.