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When it was released on July 18, Selena's posthumous album, Dreaming of You, sold about 175,000 copies -- in one day. So, not surprisingly, the late tejano star's album enters the pop chart at No. 1, selling a total of 331,000 copies during its first week and just missing Janet Jackson's 1993 record for biggest first-week sales (350,000) by a female artist. It's such big news that it diminishes the other major chart action of the week: the No. 2 debut of new jack swingers Jodeci and Canadian alterna-diva Alanis Morissette's entry into the top 10.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART 1 - SELENA Dreaming of You, EMI 1 2 - JODECI The Show,The After-Party,The Hotel, Uptown/MCA 1 3 1 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH Cracked Rear View,Atlantic 54 4 3 TLC CrazySexyCool, LaFace/Arista 36 5 2 SOUNDTRACK Pocahontas, Walt Disney 8 6 6 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury 24 7 5 SOUNDTRACK Batman Forever, Atlantic 7 8 4 MICHAEL JACKSON HIStory, Past, Present & Future, Book I, Epic 5 9 7 LIVE Throwing Copper, Radioactive 65 10 14 ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill, Maverick/Reprise 6
COUNTRY ALBUMS 1 1 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury 24 2 2 JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY John Michael Montgomery, Atlantic 17 3 - JEFF FOXWORTHY Games Rednecks Play, Warner Bros. 1 4 3 GARTH BROOKS The Hits, Liberty 32 5 4 ALISON KRAUSS Now That I've Found You: A Collection, Rounder 24 6 - TRACY BYRD Love Lessons, MCA 1 7 5 LORRIE MORGAN Greatest Hits, BNA 4 8 8 JEFF FOXWORTHTY You Might Be a Redneck If., Warner Bros. 80 9 7 TIM MCGRAW Not a Moment Too Soon, Curb 70 10 9 REBA MCENTIRE Read My Mind, MCA 65
COLLEGE ALBUMS 1 1 BJORK Post, Elektra 7 2 12 FOO FIGHTERS Foo Fighters, Roswell/Capitol 2 3 2 PRIMUS Tales From the Punchbowl, Interscope 10 4 4 CATHERINE WHEEL Happy Days, Fontana/Mercury 8 5 7 SEAM Are You Driving Me Crazy?, Touch and Go 6 6 3 THE VERVE A Northern Soul, Vernon Yard/Virgin 5 7 5 FUGAZI Red Medicine, Dischord 5 8 23 SHANE MACGOWAN AND THE POPES The Snake, ZTT/Warner Bros. 2 9 11 CHRIS KNOX Songs of You & Me, Caroline 8 10 8 SUPERGRASS I Should Coco, Capitol 8
