It's not unusual for one artist to dominate a specialty chart,'' says Billboard director of charts Geoff Mayfield of Eric Clapton's From the Cradle, whose triple-platinum sales may (or may not) make it the all-time biggest blues album. (Billboard started keeping track of blues sales only a year ago.) But purists will be pleased to learn that, Clapton aside, mainstream corruption of the blues is unlikely: Robert Cray's No. 2 Some Rainy Morning, for example, has sold only 76,000 copies — a country mile from Hootie's septuple-platinum Cracked Rear View, which holds the same spot on the pop chart.
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