Puffy Bumped By Bone Thugs
Speaking of Puff Daddy and the Billboard charts,
his album, No Way Out was bumped out of the top spot when
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s sophomore project, The
Art Of War, debuted at No. 1 after selling 394,000 copies
during its first week on the CD racks. The other albums in the Top
5 all moved down one position each – Men In Black
Soundtrack (No. 3); Spice Girls’ Spice (No. 4); Hanson’s Middle Of Nowhere (No. 5); and Sarah McLachlan’s
Surfacing (No. 6).
Not surprisingly, the soundtrack to Spawn,
which features numerous collaborations between today’s top
alternative and electronic music artists, charted at No. 7 with
sales of 98,000. Along with Men In Black and My Best
Friend’s Wedding (No. 14), Spawn is Sony
Music’s third soundtrack in the Top 15 – a feat that Sony
said has never been achieved before by another label.
Two years ago, Bone Thugs’ debut album, E. 1999
Eternal, entered the charts at the top of three categories –
pop, R&B, and Rap – with first week sales of 307,000.
Among other new releases, Joe’s All That I Am debuted
at No. 13, Pantera’s Official Live came
in at No 15, Stevie Ray Vaughan’s posthumous album Live at
Carnegie Hall charted at No. 40 and Lisa
Stansfield’s self-titled release opened at 55.