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Ja Rule's "Pain" Rules
The rapper's latest, Pain Is Love, proved painful to last week's chart-topper, Jay-Z, opening in first place on the Billboard album charts.
Pain, the second consecutive number one debut for Ja Rule (his old Queens homies call him Jeff Atkins), benefited from major FM love for his hit single "Livin' It Up." For the week ended Sunday, Pain sold more than 360,000 copies, according to SoundScan numbers. That's 85,000 more copies than his previous number one debut, Y2K's Rule 3:36. And that was more than enough to bump Jay-Z's Blueprint, number one for the past three weeks, down to number two.
Coincidentally, Ja Rule first entered the limelight as a guest rapper on Jay-Z's massive 1998 hit "Can I Get A..."
In the wake of last month's terrorist attacks, Enya's "Only Time" has become a type of American anthem (she's from Ireland, but don't tell). As a result, her latest, A Day Without Rain, which debuted at number 23 nearly a year ago, has now climbed all the way to number three. The album sold another 128,000 copies last week, bringing its total to just under 3 million.
With Enya's step up, Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor stepped down to number four. Keys, who's tapped to perform at this month's VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards in New York, has earned two preliminary nods for December's tongue-in-cheek My VH1 Music Awards. So far, she's up for Damn I Wish I Wrote That! and My Favorite Video.
The remaining top 10 are holdovers: Nickelback's Silver Side Up at five, Totally Hits 2001 at six, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory at seven, Usher's 8701 at eight, P.O.D.'s Satellite at nine and Staind's Break the Cycle in the 10 spot.
Garbage just missed the top 10 with beautifulgarbage at unlucky number 13. The group's third album--following 1998's Version 2.0 and 1995's self-titled--sold more than 73,000 copies.
Elton John also grazed the top 10 as his latest, Songs from the West Coast, debuted at number 15 with 70,000 copies sold. John has generated some ink of late for hiring Robert Downey Jr. to star in a video and signing on for an upcoming appearance on Ally McBeal.
Elsewhere on the charts, Billy Joel's latest anthology, The Essential Billy Joel, opened at number 29 and Gary Allan's Alright Guy did alright with a number 39 bow. The jam-band collective known as Oysterhead opened at 48 with The Grand Pecking Order. The supergroup features the Police's Stewart Copeland, Phish's Trey Anastasio and Primus' Les Claypool.
Next week, the charts could get "Ugly" as rookie redneck rapper Bubba Sparxxx storms the retail racks with Dark Days, Dark Nights.
Meanwhile, on the singles charts, Whitney Houston's rereleased version of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was number one. The single, Houston's rendition of the national anthem from the 1991 Super Bowl, sold 60,000 copies, according to SoundScan. All proceeds from sales of the single are going to New York relief efforts.
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