Celine's CD Tops Holiday Charts
Yes, Santa Claus is coming to town, and it looks like he's bringing a bag full of CDs, particularly Dion's compilation album All The Way--A Decade of Songs, which returned to the No. 1 slot for the week ended December 19.
Dion's album sold 537,000 units, topping her 414,000 units last week and marking her third career high week since the best-of set out five weeks ago.
Overall the week's album sales posted monumental gains as the Top 200 sales as a whole grew by 30 percent over last week? registering stellar holiday numbers.
The Backstreet Boys' Millennium at No. 2 and Britney Spears' ...Baby One More Time at No. 3 retained their chart dominance with 506,000 and 444,000 units, respectively. This week both artists were acknowledged by the RIAA as the two top selling artists of 1999, as each reached Diamond Award sales of 10 million units.
Spears, at 18, is the youngest artist ever to achieve the Diamond level, breaking the previous record held by a then-21-year-old Alanis Morissette for 1995's Jagged Little Pill. The Backstreet Boys' self-titled debut advanced another 3 million units in 1999 for a grand total of 12 million units, making them the first group to receive back to back Diamond Awards for their first two U.S. albums.
Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut made a huge sales leap this week as well to earn her the No. 4 spot with 425,000 units, up over 145,000 from last week. Santana and Kenny G take the No. 5 and No. 6 spots with their albums selling 399,000 and 359,000 units respectively.
Shania Twain and Mariah Carey, who moved up to the No. 7 and No. 8 spots, were also recognized by the RIAA for their huge years. Twain's Come On Over, which sold 309,000 units for the week, was the third best-selling album of the year taking in another 9 million units in 1999 for a grand total of 16 million. Her album is currently tied with Garth Brooks' No Fences as the best-selling country album of all time and is her ninth consecutive triple-platinum release.
But not all was jolly for some artists. Notorious B.I.G. had a poor showing for his posthumous release Born Again. Last week it was No. 1 with nearly half a million in sales. This week is was left on the shelf, selling only 251,00 units, out of the Top 10 at No. 14.
The only debuting album to interest the gift buyers was Juvenile's G-Code, taking the No. 10 spot with 290,000 units, just behind Will Smith's Willennium.
RIAA made other important year-end announcements this week. The Dixie Chicks advanced the year's female dominance of the charts as their two albums--Wide Open Spaces and Fly--sold a combined total of 8 million units in 1999.
Wide Open Spaces sold 5 million for the year to become the fifth best-selling album of 1999.
Ricky Martin, Santana's Supernatural, Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause, Limp Bizkit's Significant Other, Tupac's Greatest Hits and TLC's Fanmail made up the rest of the 1999 Top 10 bestseller list.
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