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You've gotta fight...for your right...to even get into the stores where the Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty is on sale. At least, you'd imagine riots going on around the racks, judging from Nasty's extraordinarily nice first-week sales figure of 681,000. For those keeping score at home, that's by far the best opening-week tally yet for a 1998 release. (It's not the year's best single-week figure overall, though, with '97 holdovers Titanic and Garth Brooks' Sevens scoring bigger one-week totals.) The top 10 had two other newcomers: In third place, it was hello Noreaga, and Monica claimed No. 8 as her own, three positions behind duet partner Brandy. But will they amend their long-running No. 1 single to ''The Beastie Boy Is Mine''?
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 -- BEASTIE BOYS Hello Nasty, Grand Royal/Capitol 1 2 1 SOUNDTRACK Armageddon, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 4 3 136 NOREAGA N.O.R.E., Penalty/Tommy Boy 2 4 5 SOUNDTRACK City of Angels, Warner Sunset/Reprise 16 5 4 BRANDY Never S-A-Y Never, Atlantic 6 6 3 BARENAKED LADIES Stunt, Reprise 2 7 10 SOUNDTRACK Dr. Dolittle, Blackground/Atlantic 5 8 -- MONICA The Boy Is Mine, Arista 1 9 11 BACKSTREET BOYS Backstreet Boys, Jive 49 10 8 WILL SMITH Big Willie Style, Columbia 34
COUNTRY ALBUMS
1 1 SOUNDTRACK Hope Floats, Capitol 9 2 2 SHANIA TWAIN Come On Over, Mercury 37 3 -- TRISHA YEARWOOD Where Your Road Leads, MCA Nashville 1 4 4 LEANN RIMES Sittin' on Top of the World, Curb 11 5 3 GARTH BROOKS The Limited Series, Capitol 11 6 5 FAITH HILL Faith, Warner Bros. 13 7 6 BROOKS & DUNN If You See Her, Arista Nashville 7 8 -- COLLIN RAYE The Walls Come Down, Epic 1 9 8 DIXIE CHICKS Wide Open Spaces, Monument 25 10 7 REBA MCENTIRE If You See Him, MCA Nashville 7
CONCERTS
# OF TICKET SHOWS SALES
1 3 FESTIVAL PRESIDENTE DE MUSICA LATINA Santo Domingo $1,600,000 2 2 LILITH FAIR Mountain View, Calif. $1,131,319 3 1 METALLICA Atlanta $655,649 4 1 FURTHUR FESTIVAL Camden, N.J. $621,280 5 1 METALLICA Bristow, Va. $573,632 6 1 FURTHUR FESTIVAL East Rutherford, N.J. $566,880 7 1 YANNI Montreal $546,781 8 1 MICHEL SARDOU Montreal $545,291 9 1 FURTHUR FESTIVAL Bristow, Va. $543,180 10 1 SPICE GIRLS Philadelphia $541,233
