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It was a battle of the soundtracks for the top spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart this week, with the unsinkable Titanic soundtrack once again sailing away with the crown but challenger Master P and friends scratching at the
The soundtrack to No Limit Records honcho/producer/filmmaker Master P's forthcoming film, "I Got the Hook-Up!," sold 186,000 copies in the week ending April 12 to land high at #3, according to SoundScan. The soundtrack, which features new tracks by such rappers as Ice Cube, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and the Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard, was kept off the top of the chart by multi- platinum performer Celine Dion's Let's Talk About Love and the soundtrack to the film "Titanic," which remained lodged respectively at #2 and #1. The week's second-highest debut, after Master P, comes from Southern-fried hip-hop soul act Goodie Mob, whose Still Standing landed at the #6 spot. The arrival of their sophomore effort in the top 10 sent last week's #6 debut, Gang Starr's Moment of Truth, tumbling to #26. Death Row Records survivor Daz Dillinger also took a trip down the charts, with his Retaliation, Revenge and Get Back falling from its #8 debut slot to #38 this week. Landing just ahead of those falling rap acts was fellow hip-hopper and Firm member AZ, whose solo debut, Pieces of a Man, landed at #22 on SoundScan-reported sales of 56,000. Blocking AZ's entrance into the top 20 was blues-rock diva Bonnie Raitt, whose Fundamental sold 57,000 and introduced itself to the chart at #21. A bit further down, SoundScan reported that the solo debut from Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell, Boggy Depot, moved 47,000 copies and landed at #28. But things aren't looking as bright for Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, whose 12 Bar Blues debuted last week at a disappointing #42. This week, his solo debut moved 19,000 copies and tumbled to #73. Erin Russell, webmaster of a website entitled Weiland Solo, isn't worried at all about her favorite rock star's chart position. "Its a strange and wonderful album," she wrote in an e-mail. "Most people tend to not like it on the first listen, but the second time through ... something about it catches you." The rest of the top 10: Backstreet Boys, Backstreet Boys (#4); Savage Garden, Savage Garden (#5); Various Artists, City of Angels Soundtrack (#7); K-Ci & Jojo, Love Always (#8); Madonna, Ray of Light (#9); and Natalie Imbruglia, Left of the Middle (#10).
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