'STILLMATIC' RUNS DEEP
The first four albums on the sales chart may be standing perfectly still, but not Stillmatic, Nas' late-December release, which jumped four spots to No. 5, its peak to date. Plenty of fans were also tickled by Pink, whose M!ssundaztood moved up to No. 6, the best perch yet for her party-starting sophomore album. The only other albums disturbing the stasis with any serious upward momentum were two multiple-Grammy hopefuls enjoying a second week's worth of post-nomination bumps: The no-longer-"Fallin'" Alicia Keys made her way back up to No. 8, while the irrepressible O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack art back in the top 15 for the first time since late August.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART
1 1 CREED Weathered, Wind-Up 8 2 2 LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory, Warner Bros. 64 3 3 LUDACRIS Word of Mouf, Def Jam 7 4 4 NICKELBACK Silver Side Up, Roadrunner 18 5 9 NAS Stillmatic, Ill Will/Columbia 4 6 8 PINK M!ssundaztood, Arista 8 7 7 JA RULE Pain Is Love, Murder Inc./Def Jam 15 8 13 ALICIA KEYS Songs in A Minor, J 29 9 5 VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That's What I Call Music! 8, Virgin 8 10 6 ENYA A Day Without Rain, Reprise 60 11 10 NO DOUBT Rock Steady, Interscope 5 12 11 USHER 8701, Arista 23 13 18 VARIOUS ARTISTS O Brother... soundtrack, Mercury Nashville 55 14 12 SHAKIRA Laundry Service, Epic 9 15 15 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Escape, Interscope 11
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