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It was a red-letter day for Green Day as the neo-punkers' second major-label effort, Insomniac, entered the charts at a very lucid No. 2. Slightly sleepier was the No. 4 entry of Janet Jackson's greatest-hits collection, Design of a Decade 1986/1996, which most industry spin-sters had figured would enter at the top spot. That meant Mariah Carey claimed the early-round edge in this anticipated battle of the divas, holding on to No. 1 for a second week. Alanis Morissette and Reba McEntire also had reason to celebrate: Though they were knocked down a notch or two in chart positioning, both actually registered sales increases.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS WEEK ON CHART
1 1 MARIAH CAREY Daydream, Columbia 2 2 - GREEN DAY Insomniac, Reprise 1 3 2 ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill, Maverick/Reprise 18 4 - JANET JACKSON Design of a Decade 1986/1996, A&M 1 5 3 SOUNDTRACK Dangerous Minds, MCA 12 6 4 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH Cracked Rear View, Atlantic 66 7 5 REBA MCENTIRE Starting Over, MCA 2 8 6 TIM MCGRAW All I Want, Curb 4 9 10 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury 33 10 8 TLC CrazySexyCool, LaFace/Arista 48
COUNTRY ALBUMS
1 1 REBA MCENTIRE Starting Over, MCA 2 2 2 TIM MCGRAW All I Want, Curb 4 3 3 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury 33 4 4 JEFF FOXWORTHY Games Rednecks Play, Warner Bros. 13 5 5 ALISON KRAUSS Now That I've Found You: A Collection, Rounder 36 6 6 TRAVIS TRITT Greatest Hits-From the Beginning, Warner Bros. 5 7 9 GARTH BROOKS The Hits, Liberty 44 8 7 JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY John Michael Montgomery, Atlantic 29 9 8 BLACKHAWK Strong Enough, Arista 5 10 10 DOLLY PARTON Something Special, Columbia 8
COLLEGE ALBUMS
1 2 SONIC YOUTH Washing Machine, DGC 3 2 4 ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT Scream, Dracula, Scream!, Interscope. 5 3 1 AIR MIAMI me. me. me., Teen Beat/4AD 4 4 3 SUPERCHUNK Here's Where the Strings Come In, Merge 5 5 12 GARBAGE Garbage, Almo Sounds 8 6 7 RANCID ...And Out Come the Wolves, Epitaph 5 7 8 FLAMING LIPS Clouds Taste Metallic, Warner Bros. 4 8 26 VARIOUS ARTISTS Red Hot + Bothered, Kinetic/Red Hot. 10 9 5 SEAWEED Spanaway, Hollywood 11 10 14 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS One Hot Minute, Warner Bros. 5
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