No more tears. The Evita soundtrack clawed, crawled, schemed, slept, and basically sold its way back to the top 10, thanks to a successful nationwide expansion in the film's platform release plan. The double CD also reaped some Rosie benefits from the ongoing publicity blitz waged by little Eva herself, Madonna. Evita's one of four soundtracks among SoundScan's 10 best sellers for the week, with Romeo + Juliet and The Preacher's Wife still leading the way (with Space Jam close behind) from the box office to the boom box. With two remixes of the new single ''Don't Cry for Me, Argentina'' just now reaching radio, it's gonna be a Lloyd Webber winter for a while.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS WEEK ON CHART 1 1 NO DOUBT Tragic Kingdom, Trauma/Interscope 54 2 2 SOUNDTRACK Romeo + Juliet, Capitol 11 3 3 CELINE DION Falling Into You, 550 Music/Epic 44 4 8 LEANN RIMES Blue, Curb 27 5 7 TONI BRAXTON Secrets, LaFace/Arista 30 6 4 SOUNDTRACK The Preacher's Wife, Arista 7 7 12 SOUNDTRACK Evita, Warner Bros. 7 8 5 SOUNDTRACK Space Jam, Warner Sunset/Atlantic. 9 9 6 BUSH Razorblade Suitcase, Trauma/Interscope. 8 10 9 ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill, Maverick/Warner Bros. 83
R&B ALBUMS 1 1 MAKAVELI The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory, Death Row/Interscope 11 2 3 FOXY BROWN Ill Na Na, Violator/Def Jam/Mercury 8 3 4 AALIYAH One in a Million, Blackground/AG 20 4 2 SOUNDTRACK The Preacher's Wife, Arista 7 5 5 REDMAN Muddy Waters, Def Jam/Mercury 5 6 6 TONI BRAXTON Secrets, LaFace/Arista 30 7 7 BLACKSTREET Another Level, Interscope 19 8 8 LIL' KIM Hard Core, Undeas/Big Beat 10 9 9 SOUNDTRACK Space Jam, Warner Sunset/Atlantic 9 10 11 TONY TONI TONE House of Music, Mercury 8
CONCERTS # OF TICKET SHOWS SALES
1 1 THREE TENORS Vancouver $5,544,099 2 3 CELINE DION Montreal $1,106,457 3 2 PHISH Philadelphia $917,604 4 1 KENNY G/TONI BRAXTON Seattle $493,285 5 1 BLUES TRAVELER New York $490,000 6 1 NEW EDITION Auburn Hills, Mich. $476,785 7 1 DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Philadelphia $455,075 8 1 KISS Hartford, Conn. $425,324 9 1 KISS Worcester, Mass. $418,604 10 1 TED NUGENT/ALICE COOPER Detroit $327,003
(C)1997 BPI COMMUNICATIONS INC./SOUNDSCAN INC. USED WITH PERMISSION FROM BILLBOARD, JAN. 25, 1997 (C)1997 BPI COMMUNICATIONS INC./SOUNDSCAN INC. USED WITH PERMISSION FROM AMUSEMENT BUSINESS, JAN. 13, 1997
