Going up? Aerosmith's first new album in four years rode the sales elevator right to the top, as anticipated. But Nine Lives' tally for the week -- just under 140,000 copies sold -- came in well below the 300,000-plus first-week figures for recent releases from U2 and Live. Will a soon-to-be-announced year-and-a-half tour help Sony make good on its megamillion-dollar investment in the veteran rockers? Stay tuned. If Space Jam were a band, everybody'd be wanting to buy in: The soundtrack made another huge leap -- to No. 2, a high to date -- based on mammoth video sales and two tunes in the top 10.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART 1 -- AEROSMITH Nine Lives, Columbia 1 2 6 SOUNDTRACK Space Jam, Warner Sunset/Atlantic 19 3 1 SCARFACE The Untouchable, Rap-A-Lot/Noo Trybe 2 4 3 LEANN RIMES Unchained Melody/The Early Years, Curb 6 5 4 SPICE GIRLS Spice, Virgin 7 6 7 CELINE DION Falling Into You, 550 Music/Epic 54 7 5 JEWEL Pieces of You, Atlantic 58 8 2 U2 Pop, Island 3 9 8 THE WALLFLOWERS Bringing Down the Horse, Interscope 38 10 9 NO DOUBT Tragic Kingdom, Trauma/Interscope 64
COUNTRY ALBUMS
1 1 LEANN RIMES Unchained Melody/The Early Years, Curb 6 2 2 LEANN RIMES Blue, Curb 37 3 3 DEANA CARTER Did I Shave My Legs for This?, Capitol Nashville 29 4 -- TRACY LAWRENCE The Coast Is Clear, Atlantic 1 5 5 BILL ENGVALL Here's Your Sign, Warner Bros. 10 6 4 ALAN JACKSON Everything I Love, Arista 21 7 6 TRACE ADKINS Dreamin' Out Loud, Capitol Nashville 39 8 7 KEVIN SHARP Measure of a Man, Asylum 23 9 11 KEVIN CHESNEY Me and You, BNA 39 10 8 BROOKS & DUNN Borderline, Arista 49
JAZZ ALBUMS
1 2 CHARLIE HADEN & PAT METHENY Beyond the Missouri Sky, Verve 4 2 1 TONY BENNETT Tony Bennett on Holiday, Columbia 7 3 4 SOUNDTRACK Leaving Las Vegas, Pangaea/Capitol 72 4 3 CASSANDRA WILSON New Moon Daughter, Blue Note 55 5 6 CHICK COREA & FRIENDS Remembering Bud Powell, Stretch/Concord 5 6 5 PAT METHENY GROUP Quartet, Geffen 18 7 7 DIANE SCHUUR Blues for Schuur, GRP 6 8 8 DIANA KRALL All for You (A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio), Impulse! 54 9 -- CHARLIE PARKER Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection, Rhino 1 10 11 JOSHUA REDMAN Freedom in the Groove, Warner Bros. 26
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