The Breakthrough
Led by the hit single "Be Without You," Mary's seventh studio album, 2005's The Breakthrough, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 727,000 copies in its first week—the biggest first-week sales for an solo female R&B artist in SoundScan history.
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