What a difference a Grammy makes. The presence of Amy Winehouse's Herbie Hancock's albums in the top 10 of the Billboard Top 200 is a direct result of their huge Grammy wins last week. Selling 115,000 copies, Winehouse's Back to Black jumped from the No. 24 spot last week to the No. 2 spot this week. And Hancock's River: The Joni Letters, which won album of the year, made the crazy leap from No. 159 to No. 5.

There's a notable new release missing from the Billboard 200 — Michael Jackson's much-anticipated re-release of Thriller that hit stores last week. With 116,000 copies sold, it would have stolen the No. 2 spot from Amy Winehouse. Instead, it was relegated to Billboard's catologue chart, where re-releases go to die, apparently. Sony is very displeased, arguing that the new tracks on the Thriller album make it eligible for the main chart. Billboard says MJ gets no special treatment!

Billboard chart guru Geoff Mayfield tells us: "We were approached by Sony and Sony BMG to consider 'Thriller 25' as a current album. But we had to be consistent with hundreds, if not thousands, of reissues that have come to the market. There have actually been new issues of classic albums that include even more new material. We didn't just make the decision on our own. We contacted major retailers [like Wal-Mart and Best Buy], and that was the consensus."

BILLBOARD 200
Artist, Record, Peak Position, Number of Weeks on the Charts
1. Jack Johnson, Sleep Through The Static, 1, 2
2. Amy Winehouse, Back to Black, 2, 49
3. Alicia Keys, As I Am, 1, 14
4. Various Artists, 2008 Grammy Nominees, 4, 3
5. Herbie Hancock, River: The Joni Letters, 5, 4
6. Juno, Soundtrack, 1, 7
7. Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, 5, 69
8. Sheryl Crow, Detours, 2, 2
9. Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains, 1, 8
10. Soundtrack, Step Up 2: The Streets, 10, 2