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"Titanic" Refuses to Yield to Pearl Jam
Titanic's crew capped off a week that saw the announcement of its record-tying 14 Academy Award nominations with news that its soundtrack is still breaking records after nine weeks--continuously selling more than 500,000 copies per week during a non-holiday period.
Pearl Jam's acclaimed new record, Yield, gave way to sales of 359,000 units in its first week out, a respectable number but nowhere near enough to sink the Titanic. In fact, Yield sold about a third as many copies as the group's Vs. did when it set the first-week record with 950,000 in 1993. Industry expectations for the new disc were in the 200-300,000 range, so it did better than expected. (The band's No Code sold about 360,000 copies back in 1996.)
The Seattle quintet did manage to knock Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love out of the No. 2 position as she managed to move 241,000 units, for the week ended February 8.
While it might not exactly be an Oscar contender, music from the Spice World film sold 108,000 copies landing the Spice Girls in fourth place. Rounding out the five spot was Usher, which sold 92,000 copies of My Way.
Charting at No. 6 were Grammy hopefuls Matchbox 20, lighting 84,000 new fires with Yourself or Someone Like You.
The Backstreet Boys came in No. 7 with their self-titled disc (80,000 copies) and popsters Savage Garden followed with their self-titled album (73,000). Mase introduced 61,000 new fans to his Harlem World.
Returning to the Top 10 in the final slot is an album that Industry observers thought would be a bigger hit, Will Smith's Big Willie Style. While his previous rapping effort drove the Men in Black soundtrack to No. 1 this summer, his Style dropped quickly from its Top 10 debut last November. Smith managed to climb back last week with sales of 60,000 units
One other notable new release cracked the upper echelons of the pop charts--Universal Records' Blues Brothers 2000 soundtrack bowed at No. 27 with sales of 40,000.
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