David Archuleta tops 'Billboard' year-end readers' poll

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By Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY

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Those David Archuleta fans, they do love their man. And this year, they've made David's The Other Side of Down the top album in the Billboard readers' poll.

Ranking immediately behind David were the year's top-selling albums: Eminem's Recovery (3.096 million), Lady Antebellum's Need You Now (2.887 million) and Taylor Swift's Speak Now (2.147 million). The Other Side of Down has sold 49,000.

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