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Once again, it seems that those who claim that the Spice Girls' 15 minutes of fame are up should be taking their stopwatches in for repair. With their detractors busy looking at erroneous time pieces, Scary, Baby, Sporty, Posh and Ginger
It was also a good week for their nearly 2-year-old debut, Spice, which popped up from #19 to #11. And who was blocking the Girls' way to the top? Pop diva Celine Dion and the almighty Titanic movie soundtrack, of course. While SoundScan reports that Dion's Let's Talk About Love sold 264,000 copies and remained in the #2 slot, the classical score-heavy Titanic soundtrack spent its third week docked at the #1 slot. According to SoundScan, 665,000 copies sailed out of stores in the week ending Jan. 25, which is nearly double what it sold last week and four times as much as it sold in its first week of release. The other soundtrack in the Billboard top 10 is one-time chart-topper Soul Food, from the movie of the same name. Leaping from #17 last week to #9 this week, the album, featuring tracks by R&B artist Dru Hill and by Earth, Wind & Fire, makes a reappearance in the top 10 with "Soul Food" being released to video last week and being priced for consumer purchase. Brendan Jones, video buyer for San Francisco's Virgin Megastore, wasn't too surprised to hear that the soundtrack had reappeared in the top 10. "They've done a great job of marketing the video and the soundtrack," Jones said, adding that some people have come in to buy both the video and the soundtrack. "They've really done a great job in reaching out to a disenfranchised audience and have been rewarded accordingly." Australian pop-rock act Savage Garden and Master P protégé Young Bleed were the newcomers to this week's top 10. SoundScan reports that Savage Garden's self-titled debut sold 64,000 copies and moved up from #18 to #8. The leap in sales can be attributed to increased interest in the band due to their recent #1 hit, "Truly Madly Deeply." Young Bleed, for his part, moved 60,000 copies of his debut, My Ball & My World. The album, which features appearances by No Limit labelmates Mystikal and Master P, landed at #10. Brit-pop sensations The Verve continue to see Urban Hymns climb up the chart. The album, which contains "Bitter Sweet Symphony," a song currently featured in a Nike commercial, inched up from #36 to #30. Also experiencing some upward movement was Marcy Playground's self-titled debut, featuring the modern rock hit "Sex and Candy," which went from #38 last week to #34. This week's chart also has its fair share of acts on the decline. The Lox's Money Power & Respect, for example, took a tumble from its #3-debut slot last week to #14. Country king Garth Brooks' phenomenally successful Sevens dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since the holiday season, slipping from #9 to #19. Radiohead's movement up the charts following their OK Computer album being named to numerous "Best of 1997" lists, halted this week, as the cult-favorite slid from #70 to #77. Looking ahead to next week, there seems to be no releases that will sink the Titanic. However, you can probably expect a high chart-debut from another Master P production, Silkk the Shocker's Charge It Two Da Game. Two weeks from today expect Pearl Jam's Yield to debut at the top of the chart. The best of the rest: Usher (#4), Backstreet Boys (#5), Matchbox 20 (#6) and Chumbawamba (#7). [Wed., Jan. 28, 1998, 6 p.m. PST]
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