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'N Sync's Superstar "Celebrity"
The boy band's latest, Celebrity, has just recorded the best first-week sales of any album in SoundScan history save one: the group's own No Strings Attached.
Celebrity sold a monstrous 1.88 million copies for the week ending Sunday, according to SoundScan data. In comparison, No Strings Attached sold an unbelievable 2.4 million when it hit stores in March 2000.
Even though it failed to top its predecessor, Celebrity was a superstar on the charts, selling nearly 10 times as many copies as the disc it bumped to number two, Alicia Keys' Songs in A Minor, which still sold an impressive (though not 'N Sync impressive) 202,000 copies.
With Celebrity's huge bow, 'N Sync now has a chokehold on the record books, holding the top two slots. The Backstreet Boys, whose Millennium owned the record before No Strings Attached came along, made an attempt to take the record back with their Black & Blue last fall. But that disc sold 1.6 million copies in its opening week. Once again, in the battle of the boy bands, the Backstreeters are taking a back seat to the 'N Syncers.
Of course, there were other albums released last week, but only one of them joined 'N Sync in the top 10: the rap music megacompilation Violator the Album: V2.0. The second in the series--assembled by rap music's hottest management company and released through Loud Records--opened at number 10 on the strength of tracks by Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J, Memphis Bleek, Missy Elliott, Ja Rule, Kurupt, Young Gotti and Fat Joe.
The remaining top 10 albums were all holdovers: D12's Devil's Night at number three, Staind's Break the Cycle at four, Aaliyah's self-titled at five, Destiny's Child's Survivor at six, Puffy's P. Diddy and the Bad Boy Family...The Saga Continues at seven, Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory at eight and Jagged Edge's Jagged Little Thrill at nine.
Though missing the top 10, Cake's Comfort Eagle, the group's first album on Columbia since jumping from Capricorn, opened solidly at 13. The Sacramento-based quartet is best known for hits like "Never There," "The Distance," and the current "Short Skirt/Long Jacket."
Also starting off strong was Neil Diamond's Three Chord Opera. The singer-songwriter's first new album in five years, undoubtedly benefiting from a gushing new Behind the Music feature on VH1, made its bow at number 15.
Finally, Arizona's Jimmy Eat World closed out the week's noteworthy debuts at number 54 with their DreamWorks debut, Bleed American.
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