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Fete the Beatles, the media demanded -- and we dutifully acceded, flooding stores and giving their Anthology 1 the year's best first-week sales figures by a long shot. SoundScan clocked the double disc's sales at 855,000 copies, while hundreds of thousands more reportedly sold through supermarkets, discounters, and other nonmusic chains that don't report to SoundScan. Though nearly eclipsed by his label mates, Garth Brooks also roped himself a bodacious debut -- promising Capitol's parent company, EMI, just the kind of fourth quarter it needs if rumors of its going up for sale next year are true.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS WEEK ON CHART
1 - THE BEATLES Anthology 1, Capitol 1 2 - GARTH BROOKS Fresh Horses, Capitol 1 3 2 MARIAH CAREY Daydream, Columbia 8 4 10 MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER Christmas in the Aire, American Gramaphone 11 5 3 SOUNDTRACK Waiting to Exhale, Arista 2 6 4 ALANIS MORISSETTE Jagged Little Pill, Maverick/Reprise 24 7 1 R. KELLY R. Kelly, Jive 2 8 8 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH Cracked Rear View, Atlantic 72 9 7 SMASHING PUMPKINS Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Virgin 5 10 5 ALAN JACKSON Greatest Hits, Arista 5
R&B ALBUMS 1 1 R. KELLY R. Kelly, Jive 2 2 2 SOUNDTRACK Waiting to Exhale, Arista 2 3 3 THA DOGG POUND Dogg Food, Death Row/Interscope/Priority 5 4 - LL COOL J Mr. Smith, Def Jam 1 5 6 MARIAH CAREY Daydream, Columbia 8 6 4 GENIUS/GZA Liquid Swords, Geffen 4 7 7 QUINCY JONES Q's Jook Joint, Qwest/Warner Bros. 3 8 5 THE CLICK Game Related, Sick Wid It/Jive 3 9 8 EIGHTBALL & MJG On Top of the World, Suave/Relativity 4 10 11 FAITH EVANS Faith, Bad Boy/Arista 13
BLUES ALBUMS 1 1 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN & DOUBLE TROUBLE Greatest Hits, Epic 4 2 2 KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Ledbetter Heights, Giant/Warner Bros. 3 3 3 ERIC CLAPTON From the Cradle, Duck/Reprise/Warner Bros. 15 4 4 ROBBEN FORD AND THE BLUE LINE Handful of Blues, Blue Thumb/GRP 11 5 5 JIMI HENDRIX Blues, MCA 15 6 6 ROBERT CRAY Some Rainy Morning, Mercury 15 7 8 JEFF HEALEY BAND Cover to Cover, Arista 14 8 7 KEB' MO' Keb' Mo', Okeh/Epic 15 9 10 JOHN LEE HOOKER Chill Out, Pointblank/Virgin 15 10 9 ROOMFUL OF BLUES Turn It On, Turn It Up, Bullseye Blues/Rounder 5
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