AAFES has sold 5,080 copies of R. Kelly’s “Double Up” CD at its downrange stores so far this year, making it No. 1 on the Deployed Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Marines’ Top 10. The list includes two more R&B albums, four rap albums and three pop albums.

According to AAFES, troops in Iraq and Afghanistan purchased approximately 1.7 million CDs at 54 post and base exchanges scattered throughout the Middle East last year.

The musical tastes of downrange personnel differ from those of folks back home, according to AAFES. For example, AAFES said, only Mary J. Blige’s “The Breakthrough,” listed on Nielsen Media Research’s 2006 top 10 sellers, made it onto the downrange top 10 last year.
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