Class -- in both senses of the word -- is in session. Roughly 422,000 customers picked up the extremely well-reviewed The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on their back-to-school shopping sprees, giving the once-and-future Fugee a record for the highest first-week SoundScan figures for a female artist. Likewise making his solo debut was that educators' nightmare Rob Zombie, whose Hellbilly Deluxe bowed at No. 5 with a surprisingly lifelike 120,000. Also returning to haunt us is the Titanic phenom. The Back to Titanic album surfaced with a so-so 114,000 sold.
POP ALBUMS LAST WEEK WEEKS ON CHART
1 -- LAURYN HILL The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ruffhouse/Columbia 1 2 2 BEASTIE BOYS Hello Nasty, Grand Royal/Capitol 7 3 4 SOUNDTRACK Armageddon, Columbia 10 4 6 BARENAKED LADIES Stunt, Reprise 8 5 -- ROB ZOMBIE Hellbilly Deluxe, Geffen 1 6 5 'N SYNC 'N Sync, RCA 23 7 -- SOUNDTRACK Back to Titanic, Sony Classical 1 8 3 SNOOP DOGG Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, No Limit/Priority 4 9 1 KORN Follow the Leader, Epic 2 10 7 SOUNDTRACK Dr. Dolittle, Blackground/Atlantic 11
R&B Albums 1 -- LAURYN HILL The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Ruffhouse/Columbia 1 2 1 SNOOP DOGG Da Game Is to Be Sold, Not to Be Told, No Limit/Priority 5 3 2 KELLY PRICE Soul of a Woman, T-Neck/Island 3 4 3 SOUNDTRACK How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Flyte Time 3 5 7 DMX It's Dark and Hell Is Hot, Ruff Ryders/ Def Jam/Mercury 15 6 5 JERMAINE DUPRI Life in 1472 (The Original Soundtrack), So So Def/Columbia 7 7 4 VARIOUS ARTISTS Funkmaster Flex: The Mix Tape Volume III, Loud/RCA 3 8 -- JAYO FELONEY Whatcha Gonna Do, Def Jam 1 9 9 GERALD LEVERT Love & Consequences, EastWest 6 10 8 SOUNDTRACK Dr. Dolittle, Blackground/Atlantic 11
