3 Doors Down currently tops the charts.

When the returns for this week’s album sales are announced, Usher will easily be on top, but with sales that are significantly diminished from his previous chart-topping album, according to early returns.

Here I Stand sold roughly 146,000 copies on its first day of release Tuesday, according to estimates from selected leading merchants by Nielsen SoundScan. These include Best Buy, Borders and iTunes, and all nine make up for about 80 percent of the U.S. album sales.

Usher’s day one sales, which came up short of Mariah Carey’s E=MC2, but defeated Jack Johnson’s Sleep Through the Static, figures to sell around 375,000 copies (the amount moved of Johnson’s album).

Even though this is the case, Usher’s 2004 album, Confessions, also debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 1.1 million copies in its first week. And it went on to reign at the top of the charts for nine additional weeks. And in the U.S., Confessions is still the highest selling male solo album (9.5 million) since Garth Brooks’s Ropin’ the Wind, which sold 9.6 million copies.