DreamWorks Nashville’s Toby Keith is riding that patriotic sentiment all the way to the top of the charts with a #1 debut and 580k in first-week sales for his Shock’N Y’All. Ain’t America great?
One of five other newcomers to the Top 10, Arista’s Sarah McLachlan returned after a six-year absence to a hearty Afterglow and a #2 bow.
The rest of the debuts came from Columbia/CRG’s Now Vol. 1,987,765 (#3), A&M/Interscope’s Sheryl Crow (#4), Murder Inc./IDJ’s Ja Rule (#6) and Atlantic/Atl G’s P.O.D. (#8).
Trans World’s Jerry Kamiler, a closet Bill O’Reilly fan, enthused: "It was a great week of new releases. A very strong debut from Toby Keith. And I thought that was a spectacular number from Sarah McLachlan, who hadn’t been around for a long time. Now 14 had a fabulous week, easily outselling the last one, which is a plus. Sheryl Crow did extremely well for a greatest hits package—and a left-winger to boot."
Arista’s OutKast (#5), J Records’ Rod Stewart (#7), RCA’s Clay Aiken (#9) and Def Jam South/IDJ’s Ludacris (#10) are the holdovers in the Top 10, where BMG and UMG had four apiece.
Other chart newcomers include Capitol’s Coldplay CD/DVD hybrid (#11), Island/IDJ’s Bon Jovi (#12), J Records’ Wyclef Jean (#22), Desert Storm/Elektra/ EEG’s Fabolous (#23), Capitol’s Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band greatest hits (#24), Lost Highway/IDJ’s Ryan Adams (#25), RCA Nashville’s Martina McBride (#33), Jive’s Too Short (#38) and Walt Disney Records’ Cheetah Girls soundtrack to the Disney Channel show (#48).
Among those gaining more than 20% in first-week sales, OutKast was up an impressive 24%, heading a group which boasted Buena Vista/Hollywood’s Hilary Duff (+31%), Arista Nashville’s Alan Jackson (26-15, +96%, experiencing post-CMA love), Motown’s Michael McDonald (+53%), WB’s Linkin Park (+41%), Wind-up’s Evanescence (+20%), Blue Note’s Norah Jones (+43%), DreamWorks Nashville’s Toby Keith (+63%), Capitol’s Coldplay (42-32, +33%) and Columbia/CRG’s Harry Connick Jr. (+34%).
This Friday, 50 Cent’s G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath/ Interscope posse G-Unit goes head-to-head against Roc-A-Fella/IDJ’s Jay-Z, with the two battling the Amaru/Interscope 2Pac soundtrack (which came out today) for next week’s #1 record, while Arista’s Pink, Reprise’s Josh Groban and Atlantic/Atl G’s Kid Rock will also be in the hunt.
Added Kamiler: "The macro decision to move a release date and get a record to the street ASAP because it’s being pirated is the right thing to do. Hey, anyone know where I can download that Paris Hilton video?"
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