EdwardKnoxII 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13005,00.html Britney "Zones" Out Jackson by David Jenison Nov 26, 2003, 3:00 PM PT Britney Spears lived up to her album's billing. Michael Jackson did not. Spears was definitely In the Zone--and in the record books--as her latest debuted atop the album chart. Jackson, meanwhile, capped a week in which he was arrested on child-molestation charges with his Number Ones falling way short of number one. More on the former King of Pop in a bit; first, let's talk about the reigning pop princess. With In the Zone opening at number one, Spears became the first female artist in chart history to land four straight albums in the top slot. Considering she's only released four albums, Spears currently boasts a perfect record. No wonder Madonna gave her such a big smooch! With 609,000 copies sold last week, per Nielsen SoundScan, Zone scored the best first-week sales for a female artist so far this year. Britney's latest is behind only 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' (872,000 copies) and Clay Aiken's Measure of a Man (613,000 copies) for 2003's biggest debut weeks. Even more impressive, Zone tallied the fifth-best week ever for a female artist and gives Spears three of the top five spots, including the current record holder, 2000's Oops! I Did It Again with 1.3 million. In the Zone also debuted at number one in France, Korea, Mexico and Argentina and registered Top 10 bows in Germany, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Japan, Austria, Holland, Switzerland and Ireland. The singer's next world tour kicks off in March. Though offering no competition for the top spot, Blink-182's eponymous disc opened at three with 313,000. The new disc, featuring the lead single "Feeling This," comes with six new videos on a bonus DVD. Following at number five with 280,000 copies was the Beatles' Let It Be...Naked, a rerelease of the 1970 original minus Phil Spector's Wall of Sound production. Last week's top release, Jay-Z's The Black Album, slipped to number four, while the 50 Cent-led G-Unit crew climbed to number two with Beg for Mercy. The rest of the Top 10 were holdovers: Josh Groban's Closer at six, Tupac: Resurrection at seven, Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 14 at eight, Toby Keith's Shock'n Y'All at nine and OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in the 10 spot. Jackson, meanwhile, didn't even sniff the Top 10. Released November 18, the same day Santa Barbara officials searched Jackson's Neverland Ranch, Number Ones moved 121,000 copies to open at 13. The greatest-hits collection, likely to be Jackson's final release on Epic Records, contains just one new track, "One More Chance," written by R. Kelly (himself the target of kiddie porn charges in Illinois and Florida), which has been languishing on the singles charts. The sales don't even come close to Jackson's underperforming Invincible, which debuted at number one in 2001 with 366,000 and has sold about 2 million total since, a fraction of what Jackson did in his Thriller days. Jackson's previous greatest-hits collection, HIStory, debuted at number one in 1995. Checking in behind Jackson was the Dave Matthews Band's three-disc Central Park Concert. Recorded last September, the disc sold 111,000 copies at 14. Korn's Take a Look in the Mirror, which encountered major difficulties getting to stores in time after upping the release date to last Friday, got creamed, only selling 96,000 copies to open at 19. Other albums making a serious sales dent included the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits at 21, Bad Boy's 112's Hot and Wet at 22, Linkin Park's Live in Texas at 23, LeAnn Rimes' Greatest Hits at 24 and Reba McEntire's Room to Breathe at 25. Further down the charts, Cyndi Lauper's covers album, At Last, landed at 38; Tori Amos' retrospective Tales of a Librarian came in at 40; Timbaland & Magoo's Under Construction Part II debuted at 50; and Al Green's back-to-soul album I Can't Stop bowed at 53. Two new Christmas albums also cracked the charts. Whitney Houston's One Wish: The Holiday Album, featuring new takes on "Little Drummer Boy" and "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," debuted at 58. Meanwhile, Ashanti's Christmas, which covers holiday classics like "Silent Night" and "Joy to the World," only managed a 167 debut. Here's a recap of the Top 10 albums for the week ended Sunday: 1. In the Zone, Britney Spears 2. Beg for Mercy, G-Unit 3. Blink-182, Blink-182 4. The Black Album, Jay-Z 5. Let It Be...Naked, the Beatles 6. Closer, Josh Groban 7. Tupac: Resurrection, 2Pac 8. Now That's What I Call Music! Vol. 14, various 9. Shock'n Y'All, Toby Keith 10. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, OutKast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamoaRowe 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 Goddamn it, that chart pisses me off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted December 1, 2003 4 good Acts. I'll leave it up to you guys to figure out those four. Here's a hint: It's not fucking Toby Keith for god damn sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nevermortal 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 4 good Acts. I'll leave it up to you guys to figure out those four. Here's a hint: It's not fucking Toby Keith for god damn sure. I count two. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Ghost of bps21 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 I see 3...but I deduct 2Pac for releasing more albums after death than before. So I count the Beatles and Outkast Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 Jay-Z, Beatles, Outkast, 2pac. I too hesitate to count 2pac, though, since this is just his family and lawyers cashing in on his estate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nevermortal 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 I count Outkast & Beatles. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 Yeah, you don't strike me as a Jay-Z fan. Nerd. Nice corpse, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted December 1, 2003 Yep. Outkast. Beatles. Jay-Z Pac. Yeah the pac album is more Rapeing of his legancy but its still great stuff... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 I read some where Korn's new disc only debuted at #19. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Choken One Report post Posted December 1, 2003 good. Have you HEARD that new single? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamoaRowe 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 I read some where Korn's new disc only debuted at #19. Ouch... it's actually a good cd as well... ... I think week 2 will go a lot better for Korn. Most people didn't even know it came out and I sold a lot of copies of it the past few days. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 If you're bored. Check out what albums were on the charts ten years ago. Decade Ago Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SamoaRowe 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 People had better taste ten years ago. Pearl Jam was on top back then Now in 2003, Pearl Jam isn't exactly on top, but their new "Lost Dogs" cd has sold pretty well at my Best Buy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 People had better taste ten years ago. Pearl Jam was on top back then That's because we weren't being force-fed bad Pop music ten years ago. Well, except for Color Me Badd. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkktookmybabyaway 0 Report post Posted December 1, 2003 I'm not a country music fan, but I think Keith's album title is funny. OMG -- looking at that 10 Years Ago list: 14) Eazy-E, It s On (Dr. Dre 187um) Killa (EP) 20) Das EFX, Straight Up Sewaside (debut) 22) MC Ren, Shock Of The Hour (debut) 45) Shaquille O Neal, Shaq Diesel (was on charts for 30 weeks at that point)... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
starvenger 0 Report post Posted December 2, 2003 Not a surprise that Britney ended up on top, what with the all-out promotion and cheap 1st week prices and the kids who still look up to her and whatnot. It's one of those things where you have to see how the album's doing 3-4 weeks down the road to really gauge how she's doing, I think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Memphis Report post Posted December 2, 2003 Twenty bucks says that Britney's latest excuse for 'music' doesn't have half the staying power as her other albums. Oh, and MJ > This thread M Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
razazteca 0 Report post Posted December 2, 2003 The only press MJ gets is bad press and Greatest Hits albums don't count. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted December 3, 2003 Despite what America thinks of MJ, he still is selling very well everywhere else in the world. I know for a fact his new single, One More Chance, debuted in the Top 5 over in the UK, and his latest compliation, Number Ones, debuted in the Top 10 here in Australia. UYI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pochorenella 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2003 Britney's albums are selling less and less each time she releases them. Her fans (read: teenage girls) flock to the stores to buy the records no matter what, but you can see her performance on Billboard's Hot 100 has been abysmal as far back as "...Oops I Did it Again" when it didn't even crack the Top 5. I believe only a couple of her shitty ballads have barely made it into the Top 10 since that time. "Slave for You" and her new "Me Against The Music" barely dented the Top 40! A far cry from her top singles off her first album. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haVoc 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2003 Man, Britney isn't going anywhere for a while. Her music may not always sell in the millions, but she's sticking around. Hell, there is a whole other story for Britney to tell. With all the rumors of partying, drinking, doing coke, etc,. she still needs to end up in rehab. And you know that will be a media storm. Then she returns "clean" and will be protrayed as older, wiser, more mature women who made mistakes, fell, hit rock bottom and now lives up to her mistakes and beat her demons. Britney Spears then makes a "come back" and preaches to kids not to do drugs and to look at Miss or Mrs (depending on how times she's been married at this point) Spears as a role model. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoDriver 0 Report post Posted December 4, 2003 Say what you want about Jackson, But who really thought "Number Ones" would do that well anyway? Afterall it is a "Best of" album not the big comeback album alot of news reporters make it out to be. I mean he already released a few "Best Ofs" years ago... anyone who wants this material probably already owns it in some other form. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Renegade 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2003 Say what you want about Jackson, But who really thought "Number Ones" would do that well anyway? Afterall it is a "Best of" album not the big comeback album alot of news reporters make it out to be. I mean he already released a few "Best Ofs" years ago... anyone who wants this material probably already owns it in some other form. I was going to say that, I mean there was only one album released after history, so why should people give a crap? Rock my world doesnt deserve to be in any album. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pochorenella 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2003 MJ's new CD sold over 120,000 copies on its first week. On a normal week that would have been enough for a #1 debut. That particular week saw a slew of strong and new releases so that debut position (13? 17? I forgot) is misleading. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted December 12, 2003 Say what you want about Jackson, But who really thought "Number Ones" would do that well anyway? Afterall it is a "Best of" album not the big comeback album alot of news reporters make it out to be. I mean he already released a few "Best Ofs" years ago... anyone who wants this material probably already owns it in some other form. I was going to say that, I mean there was only one album released after history, so why should people give a crap? Rock my world doesnt deserve to be in any album. You don't dig 'You Rock My World'? I find that song irrisistable, as well as 'Unbreakable' from the same album. UYI Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheArchiteck Report post Posted December 12, 2003 http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,13005,00.html With 609,000 copies sold last week, per Nielsen SoundScan, Zone scored the best first-week sales for a female artist so far this year. Looks like Alicia Keys stole that title from her pretty quickly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted December 12, 2003 Call me when she hits that rock bottom of orgies, booze, and coke. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lomasmoney 0 Report post Posted December 12, 2003 Call me when she hits that rock bottom of orgies, booze, and coke. with me taping all of it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
