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ALWAYS ROOM FOR J. LO
Remember the old days when, if artists wanted to put out a new album, they actually recorded a new album? The trend seems to be otherwise, with Jennifer Lopez's J to Tha L-O! The Remixes having debuted at No. 1 just a week after a revised version of a Mary J. Blige album hit the top 10. This week, J. Lo's reruns set slipped to No. 3 on sales of 134,000. That allowed A. Ja--a.k.a. country star Alan Jackson--to retake the top spot, with another 184,000 sold of Drive. By now, the "Where Were You..." singer should be able to afford a full-time political adviser to keep him up on the differences between Iran and Iraq. As for those chart bumps for Enrique and Usher: It was Valentine's Day week.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART
1 2 ALAN JACKSON Drive, Arista Nashville 5 2 4 CREED Weathered, Wind-up 13 3 1 JENNIFER LOPEZ J to Tha L-O! The Remixes, Epic 2 4 5 LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory, Warner Bros. 69 5 7 NICKELBACK Silver Side Up, Roadrunner 23 6 6 LUDACRIS Word of Mouf, Def Jam 12 7 3 BARRY MANILOW Ultimate Manilow, BMG Heritage/Arista 2 8 9 PINK M!ssundaztood, Arista 13 9 13 PUDDLE OF MUDD Come Clean, Flawless/Geffen 25 10 21 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Escape, Interscope 16 11 14 USHER 8701, Arista 28 12 8 JA RULE Pain Is Love, Murder Inc./Def Jam 20 13 16 VARIOUS ARTISTS O Brother... soundtrack, Mercury Nashville 60 14 17 BRITNEY SPEARS Britney, Jive 15 15 10 SADE Lovers Live, Epic 2
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