'A MINOR' HIT
The artist formerly known as Puffy didn't blow hard enough to debut on top. But the opening numbers for P. Diddy's The Saga Continues...weren't just diddly-squat, either. Sean Combs' latest sampler bowed at No. 2, selling 186,000 copies--less than the 205,000 that Forever opened with in 1999, but higher than some retailers expected. The week's battle between Arista and ex-Arista head Clive Davis ended with Davis' protegee Alicia Keys besting Arista's P. Diddy; Keys unlocked 222,000 hearts her third week out. The week's second-highest debut, at No. 9, belonged to Melissa Etheridge, whose Skin shook 83,000 hands.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART
1 2 ALICIA KEYS Songs in A Minor, J 3 2 -- P. DIDDY The Saga Continues..., Arista/Bad Boy 1 3 1 D12 Devils Night, Shady/Interscope 4 4 3 STAIND Break the Cycle, Flip/Elektra 8 5 5 DESTINY'S CHILD Survivor, Columbia 11 6 4 JAGGED EDGE Jagged Little Thrill, So So Def/Columbia 3 7 8 BLINK-182 Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, MCA 5 8 6 LIL' ROMEO Lil' Romeo, Freeworld/Priority 2 9 -- MELISSA ETHERIDGE Skin, Island 1 10 11 LINKIN PARK Hybrid Theory, Warner Bros. 38 11 7 VARIOUS ARTISTS The Fast and the Furious soundtrack, Def Jam 6 12 10 ST. LUNATICS Free City, Universal 6 13 12 LUTHER VANDROSS Luther Vandross, J 4 14 14 VARIOUS ARTISTS O Brother... soundtrack, Mercury Nashville 29 15 9 VARIOUS ARTISTS Music From...Moulin Rouge, Fox/Interscope 10
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