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THEY STILL may not be bigger than Jesus, but for this week, at least, they're bigger than Oasis. The Beatles' Anthology 2 easily took the top spot on the Billboard pop album chart with a first-week SoundScan figure of 442,000 copies. That hardly begins to match the debut sales posted last December for Anthology 1, the Fabnesses' previous trough of outtakes -- but as Capitol honchos have been exceedingly careful to point out, that first set had boosts from both ABC and Santa. Anthology 2's Sgt. Pepper-era material could give it the longest legs of the three sets; any way you figure, it adds up to a lot of lucre in the sky with diamonds. POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART 1 -- THE BEATLES Anthology 2, Capitol 1 2 1 ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill, Maverick/Reprise 41 3 2 CELINE DION Falling Into You, 550 Music/Epic 2 4 3 FUGEES The Score, Ruffhouse/Columbia 6 5 4 2PAC All Eyez on Me, Death Row/Interscope 6 6 6 MARIAH CAREY Daydream, Columbia 25 7 7 SOUNDTRACK Waiting to Exhale, Arista 19 8 9 OASIS (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Epic 25 9 5 STING Mercury Falling, A&M 2 10 8 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury Nashville 56
R&B ALBUMS 1 1 FUGEES The Score, Ruffhouse/Columbia 6 2 2 2PAC All Eyez on Me, Death Row/Interscope 7 3 4 R. KELLY R. Kelly, Jive 19 4 3 SOUNDTRACK Waiting to Exhale, Arista 19 5 5 D'ANGELO Brown Sugar, EMI 38 6 6 MARIAH CAREY Daydream, Columbia 25 7 7 TOTAL Total, Bad Boy/Arista 6 8 8 SOUNDTRACK A Thin Line Between Love & Hate, Warner Bros. 6 9 9 LL COOL J Mr. Smith, Def Jam/RAL/Island 18 10 -- RAPPIN' 4-TAY Off Parole, Chrysalis/EMI 1 CONCERTS # OF TICKET SHOWS SALES
1 3 BOB SEGER Auburn Hills, Mich. $1,681,715 2 5 GARTH BROOKS Atlanta $1,556,138 3 14 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND New York $1,494,390 4 3 K.D. LANG New York $832,415 5 1 BOB SEGER Cleveland $585,670 6 1 GEORGE STRAIT St. Louis $467,222 7 1 AC/DC New York $461,770 8 1 REBA MCENTIRE Orlando, Fla. $431,176 9 1 BOB SEGER Toronto $425,808 10 1 REBA MCENTIRE Greensboro, N.C. $422,086
