Eve and Little Baby Jesus -- together again. The week's top album debuts came from rough-talking Ruff Ryders protegee Eve, whose Let There Be...Eve -- Ruff Ryders' First Lady entered at No. 1, and from Ol' Dirty Bastard, no stranger to coarseness himself, slipping in at No. 10 with N***a Please. With sales of 213,000, the none-too-innocent Eve was substantially ahead of the slightly less worldly Backstreet Boys, who held on to No. 2 with 173,000 copies sold. Another newcomer to top 10 territory is non-Latino Latin-pop sensation Lou Bega, whose A Little Bit of Mambo leaped three spots to No. 9 in its fourth week on the chart. Perhaps this week's proud newcomers can join Eve in exclaiming: ''We On That S -- -!''
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 -- EVE Let There Be...Eve -- Ruff Ryders' First Lady, Ruff Ryders/Interscope 1 2 2 BACKSTREET BOYS Millennium, Jive 18 3 3 CHRISTINA AGUILERA Christina Aguilera, RCA 4 4 1 DIXIE CHICKS Fly, Monument/Sony 3 5 4 SANTANA Supernatural, Arista 14 6 5 KID ROCK Devil Without a Cause, Lava/Atlantic 38 7 7 LIMP BIZKIT Significant Other, Flip/Interscope 13 8 6 BRITNEY SPEARS ...Baby One More Time, Jive 36 9 12 LOU BEGA A Little Bit of Mambo, RCA 4 10 -- OL' DIRTY BASTARD N***a Please, Elektra 1
COUNTRY ALBUMS
1 1 DIXIE CHICKS Fly, Monument/Sony 3 2 2 SHANIA TWAIN Come On Over, Mercury Nashville 98 3 -- MARTINA MCBRIDE Emotion, RCA 1 4 3 DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces, Monument/Sony 86 5 4 TIM MCGRAW A Place in the Sun, Curb 20 6 5 LONESTAR Lonely Grill, BNA 16 7 6 LINDA RONSTADT & EMMYLOU HARRIS Western Wall -- The Tucson Sessions, Asylum 4 8 9 KENNY CHESNEY Everywhere We Go, BNA 29 9 7 JO DEE MESSINA I'm Alright, Curb 79 10 10 FAITH HILL Faith, Warner Bros. 74
