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ALBUM SALES

April 22-28, 2002

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Title

Artist

Label

Weekly Sales

Total Sales

Week #
1 N No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems Kenny Chesney BNA

235,325

235,325

1
2 1 Ashanti Ashanti Murder Inc./Def Jam

143,175

1,081,725

4
3 3 A New Day Has Come Celine Dion Epic

114,125

1,292,675

5
4 2 C'mon, C'mon Sheryl Crow A&M

110,875

295,600

2
5 4 NOW! That's What I Call Music, Vol. 9 Various Artists Universal

109,300

1,452,000

6
6 N Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Soundtrack Sony Classical

73,000

73,000

1
7 5 The Scorpion King Soundtrack Universal

62,000

N/A

5
8 7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack Lost Highway

59,000

PlatinumX5

70
9 8 Josh Groban Josh Groban Warner Bros.

58,000

Gold

20
10 9 Missundaztood Pink LaFace

58,000

PlatinumX2

23
11 N Cee-Lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections Cee-Lo Arista

57,000

57,000

1
13 N Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Wilco Nonesuch Records

55,000

55,000

1
20 N When I Was Cruel Elvis Costello Island

39,000

39,000

1
29 N Purple World Big Moe Priority

35,000

35,000

1
36 N Only a Woman Like You Michael Bolton Jive

31,000

31,000

1

COMPARISONS: Country star Kenny Chesney enjoys a career best week of sales, handily topping the 30,000 start of his last album, 1999's "Everywhere We Go," and the 85,000 bow of his 2000 "Greatest Hits" (which sold 103,000 units in its peak week and sits at No. 101 on this week's chart). The Episode II soundtrack fell far short of the 173,000 first week sales of 1999's Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Ex-Goodie Mob rapper Cee-Lo's solo debut came in lower than the 92,000 start of his former group's last album, 1999's "World Party." Wilco's last album, 1999's "Summerteeth," kicked off with 19,000 and has sold 166,000 copies to date. Meanwhile, Elvis Costello saw his highest debut ever with "When I Was Cruel" and his highest chart position since "Get Happy!" hit No. 11 in 1980. His last album, the Burt Bacharach collaboration "Painted from Memory" bowed at No. 78 on sales of 20,000.

Platinum = Certification of one million units shipped. Gold =500,000 units shipped.

Source: SoundScan

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