Celine Dion's "Day" on Charts

Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come, her first studio album in five years, came in with titanic sales to score number one on the album charts.

The Canadian songstress, back after a three-year hiatus to take care of her cancer-striken husband, Rene Angelil (the cancer is now in remission) and have a baby, added 527,000 copies to her 140 million-plus career total. For those keeping score at home, Celine's first-week sales are also tops so far this year.

Get used to having her around again. Not only is she staring at you from the cover of this week's TV Guide, she's prepping an extended exclusive engagement next year at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.

Dion outsold last week's chart-topper, Now That's What I Call Music! 9, by 64,000 copies for the week ended Sunday, according to SoundScan figures. Hers was one of four new discs in the Top 10.

The second biggest open belonged to WWF Forceable Entry, which landed at number three with 146,000 copies sold. The album features songs by Kid Rock, Cypress Hill and Drowning Pool. Another WWF-related album, The Scorpion King soundtrack, clocked in at number eight with 93,000 copies sold. The film, which stars wrestling's the Rock, is jointly produced by the WWF and Universal. The hard-driving soundtrack features artists like Rob Zombie, System of a Down and Creed. (Counting Now 9 and the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, four of the Top 10 albums were compilations.)

Keeping with the sports theme, soul singer Avant, a signee of Magic Johnson's label, sold 122,000 copies of Ecstasy for a slam-dunk debut at number six.

The remaining Top 10 were holdovers: Jay-Z and R. Kelly's The Best of Both Worlds at four, O Brother, Where Art Thou? at five, Pink's M!ssundazstood climbing to seven (with a week's best 55 percent sales jump), Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory at nine and Alan Jackson's Drive bringing up the rear at 10.

Among the big losers were Glenn Lewis and Jimmy Buffet. Both artists debuted in the Top 10 last week, but each plummeted 26 spots in week two.

Meanwhile, Newsboys, the Christian arena rockers from Down Under, opened at 38 with Thrive. They were followed at 44 by some cowboys from hell, Down (featuring members of Pantera), with Down II. Those seeking an alternative Easter Sunday helped Hatebreed open at 69 with Perseverance, while the real cowboys helped George Strait's The Best of George Strait: The Millennium Collection 20th Century Masters reach number 76. And for those who missed them the first time, the Ying Yang Twins are back with Alley: The Return of the Ying Yang Twins at 79.

Surprisingly, the Baha Men, coming off the five-times platinum Who Let the Dogs Out?, could only a muster a number 95 debut for their follow-up, Move It Like This. That's hardly something to woof about.

The remaining noteworthy debuts included Andrew W.K.'s I Get Wet at 112, the Pledge of Allegiance tour compilation (including live tracks from System of a Down and Slipknot) at 117, and crossover country singer LeAnn Rimes at 158 with I Need You (with numbers like that, she's not kidding).

Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums for the week ended March 31:

1. A New Day Has Come, Celine Dion
2. Now That's What I Call Music! 9, various
3. WWF Forceable Entry, various
4. The Best of Both Worlds, Jay-Z and R. Kelly
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, various
6. Ecstasy, Avant
7. M!ssundazstood, Pink
8. The Scorpion King soundtrack, various
9. Hybrid Theory, Linkin Park
10. Drive, Alan Jackson