Album Chart: Shania Twain keeps it ‘Up!’
New albums from Tim McGraw, Tupac Shakur, Jennifer Lopez and Paul McCartney all make Top 10 debuts, but none are able to topple Shania Twain’s “Up!” from the top slot.
New albums from Tim McGraw, Tupac Shakur, Jennifer Lopez and Paul McCartney all make Top 10 debuts, but none are able to topple Shania Twain’s “Up!” from the top slot.
During its second week in stores, “Up!” sold another 625,000 copies, according to industry sources, which brings the album’s total sales to 1.5 million. That will keep the album seated at No. 1 on the forthcoming Billboard 200 album chart.
Nipping at Twain’s heels is fellow country singer Tim McGraw, whose “Tim McGraw & the Dancehall Doctors” debuts at No. 2. The album, which likely got a boost from McGraw’s Nov. 27 primetime television special, sold just over 600,000 copies.
McGraw’s wife, Faith Hill, followed suit with a television special of her own on the 28th, and subsequently sees her latest album, “Cry,” jump from No. 15 to No. 7.
Holiday shoppers snatched up a whole lot of copies of the “8 Mile” soundtrack, which will remain at No. 3. The album sold about 394,000 copies, an increase of about 110,000 over the previous week.
“Now that’s What I Call Music! 11,” which debuted at No. 2 last week, slips to No. 4 despite selling 60,000 copies more than it did during its first week out.
Making debuts at Nos. 5 and 6, respectively, are Tupac Shakur’s latest posthumous release, “Better Dayz,” and Jennifer Lopez’s sophomore effort, “This Is Me ... Then.”
Paul McCartney’s live set, “Back in the U.S.A.,” which moved about 224,000 copies during its first week in stores, closes out the roster of this week’s Top 10 debuts by coming in at No. 8.
Avril Lavigne’s “Let Go” stays put at No. 9, while Christina Aguilera climbs its way back into the Top 10, up two spots from No. 12.
Snoop Dogg falls just short of a Top 10 debut with “Paid tha Cost to Be Da Bo$$,” which comes in at No. 12, while System of a Down’s “Steal This Album” makes its debut at No. 15.
Other notable debuts include: Dru Hill’s “Dru World Order” at No. 21, Baby a.k.a. the #1 Stunna’s “Birdman” at No. 24, the Roots’ “Phrenology” at No. 28, Sum 41’s “Does This Look Infected?” at No. 32, Barbra Streisand’s “Duets” at No. 38, Busta Rhymes’ “It Ain’t Safe No More” at No. 43, Bob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series: Vol. 5” at No. 56, K-Ci & JoJo’s “Emotional” at No. 61 and Kelly Osbourne’s “Shut Up” at No. 101.
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