Bandleader and percussionist Tito Puente, who rode to fame on the heels of the 1950s mambo craze and for the next five decades helped define Latin jazz, has died. He was 77. Puente recorded more than 100 albums in his six decades in the business. In February, he won his fifth Grammy for best traditional tropical Latin performance for "Mambo Birdland." He received a National Medal of Arts from President Clinton in 1997. Puente played the timbales, a pair of single-headed drums mounted on stands. A flamboyant performer, he move them from the back of the band to the front and played standing up.
Artists who collaborated with him included Celia Cruz, Charlie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, Candido, Mongo Santamaria, Cal Tjader, Woody Herman, George Shearing, Lionel Hampton and Machito. Another was Carlos Santana, whose early hits include Puente's "Oye Como Va." Puente had been released from a Puerto Rico hospital May 2 after two days of treatment for an irregular heartbeat. He canceled all his events in May, including three concerts planned with the Symphonic Orchestra of Puerto Rico.
News broke that Janet Jackson is to get a divorce. This came as a surprise to a lot of people, not least because no-one knew she was married. This deception didn't extend to soon-to-be-ex-husband Rene Elizondo, who petitioned "irreconcilable differences" to end the nine year alliance. "We became more business and creative partners than actual lovers. We've been in negotiations for the past four to six months, and we decided to file for divorce and get this over with." Jackson's first marriage, to James DeBarge in 1985, collapsed within minutes and was later annulled.
Madonna joins Metallica, Dr Dre and other acts by threatening to sue Napster. Apparently, someone has leaked Madge's new single to the MP3 matching service, and the material girl is considering joining the queue to see them in court. Music specialists point out that the people downloading the file are the people who buy the most records and see the most concerts.
The first Dancestar Awards ended with Moby and Ministry of Sound each walking away with an armful of gongs. The Alexandra Palace event was organised by the creators of the MOBO's (Music Of Black Origin) and featured performances from DJ Luck & MC Neat, Alice Deejay, Artful Dodger, ATB, Fragma and Moby, who picked up the 'Dancestar' award plus the best album award for 'Play'.
The Ministry empire were voted best UK publication, best dance single (ATB for 9pm Til I Come), best compilation (Dance Nation 7) and best newcomer for ATB.
Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP scored the second best sales week since Billboard adopted SoundScan data in 1991. The album earns top spots on The Billboard 200 and Billlboard's R&B Albums chart with a staggering 1.76 million units sold. On The Billboard 200, it displaced Britney Spears' album Oops! ... I Did It Again, which sold 612,500 and slipped to #2.
Eminem's tally dropped Spears' album, which sold 1.3 million units the previous week, to the #3 spot on the list of best weekly sales performances in the SoundScan era. Both trail 'N Sync's No Strings Attached, which sold 2.4 million copies in its debut week in March. The previous record sales week for a rap album was Snoop Doggy Dogg's 1993 debut album, Doggystyle, with 803,000 units.
Also making strong debuts this week were matchbox twenty's album mad season by matchbox twenty, which entered at #3, with 365,000 sales; A Perfect Circle's debut Mer De Noms, #4, 188,000; and Don Henley's Inside Job, #7, 114,000.
Elsewhere in the top 10, 'N Sync's No Strings Attached fell one notch to #5; the soundtrack to Mission: Impossible: 2 held at #6; Whitney Houston's Whitney: The Greatest Hits dropped four spots to #9; and rappers Big Tymers' I Got That Work bounced from #3 to #10.
Notable debuts from country artist Lee Ann Womack's I Hope You Dance, which opened at #17 on The Billboard 200 and at #1 on Top Country Albums. R&B supergroup Lucy Pearl's self-titled debut premiered at #26, the Family Values Tour 1999 debuted at #32, and Gloria Estefan's Spanish-langauge album Alma Caribena-Caribbean Soul opened at #50.
Also debuting this week was EnVogue's Masterpiece Theatre at #67; Sauce Money's Middle Finger U at #72; Dilated Peoples' The Platform at #74; Plus One's The Promise at #76; Dynamite Hacks' Superfast at #84; XTC's Wasp Star (Apple Venus Vol. 2) at #108; the various artists compilation Reggae Gold 2000 at #153; George Benson's Absolute Benson at #156; and Widespread Panic with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band's Another Joyous Occasion at #161.
Santana's Maria Maria featuring the Product G&B enjoyes a 10th week at #1 on the Hot 100. The top 10 is largely unchanged, with the only new entries coming from Eminem's The Real Slim Shady leaping from #11 to #7, and the title track from Spears' new album, up from #12 to #9.
'N Sync's It's Gonna Be Me was the fastest growing track at radio for the second straight week, while rapper Nelly's (Hot Shit) Country Grammar was the fastest growing track at retail, as it jumped from #37 to #24.
Adult Contemporary #1 (week 5) Faith Hill: breathe
Mainstream Rock #1 (week 1) Metallica: i disappear
Top 40 Tracks #1 (week 4) Vertical Horizon: everything you want
usalbums
36 (34) Sting: brand new day
48 (36) Bloodhound Gang: hooray for boobies
71*(83) Sammie: from the bottom to the top
93*(126)Kittie: spit
heat
1 (1) BBMak: sooner or later
4 (7) Travis: the man who
6 (10) Westlife
13 (16) S Club 7: s club
17 NEW Nichole Nordeman: this mystery
18*(26) Sonicflood
19*(29) Kelis: kaleidoscope
indie albs
1 (2) Slipknot
3 *(6) Kittie: spit
6 NEW XTC: wasp star (apple venus volume 2)
9 NEW Widespread Panic with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band: another joyous occasion
18 NEW Pete Townshend: lifehouse elements
internet
1 (6) Matchbox 20: mad season
2 NEW Eminem: the marshall mathers lp
4 NEW Don Henley: inside job
5 NEW A Perfect Circle: mer de noms
9 NEW Lee Ann Womack: i hope you dance
11 NEW XTC: wasp star (apple venus volume 2)
12 (18) Mission Impossible 2: ost
15 NEW Gloria Estefan: alma caribena - caribbean soul
18 (13) Sting: brand new day
hot 100
13*(14) Creed: higher
18*(21) Matchbox 20: bent
19*(26) N'Sync: it's gonna be me
21 (19) Sonique: it feels so good
25*(29) Goo Goo Dolls: broadway
28*(34) BBMak: back here
32*(35) Westlife: swear it again
34*(39) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
37*(42) Andy Griggs: she's more
43*(50) Backstreet Boys: the one
46*(61) Next: wifey
49*(55) Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert: i hope you dance
50*(54) Clay Davidson: unconditional
modern rock
1 (1) 3 Doors Down: kryptonite [week 5]
7 (24) Everclear: wonderful
12 (18) Deftones: change (in the house of flies)
16 (22) Limp Bizkit: take a look around
country
1 (1) Faith Hill: the way you love me [week 4]
3 *(4) Chad Brock: yes!
10*(12) Trace Adkins: more
17*(20) Lonestar: what about now
18*(22) Keith Urban: your everything
20*(25) Alan Jackson: it must be love
r&b
1 (1) Carl Thomas: i wish [week 3]
2 (3) Avant: separated
5 *(12) Nelly: (hot shit) country grammar
12*(16) Lucy Pearl: dance tonight
17*(24) Next: wifey
adult top 40
1 (1) Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 6]
4 *(5) Matchbox 20: bent
10*(16) Sting: desert rose
16*(19) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
Top of the Pops
#4 - Billie Piper: day and night [as last week] #3 - Bon Jovi: it's my life [utterly bombastic, wonderful] #10 - Sia: taken for granted [drapes in the backdrop, a prowling prescence, but doesn't quite work] #15 - Belle and Sebastian: legal man [works better than i could have expected, with three singers round one mike] #32 - Hybrid & Chrissie Hynde: kid [they're only on because chrissie could make the tape. not on the song's quality] pre - Travis: comin' around again [recorded at the madia vale radio studios, which just happen to have a massive totp logo around. band is artily placed, and looks ok.] #2 - S Club 7: reach [preposterously stupid choreography, but a bouncy enough number.] #1 - Sonique: it feels so good [the one live vocal, but not showing the song in its best light. a little strained, a little bizarre.]
Bon Jovi tops the UK Album Charts; their Crush album is the fifth straight chart-topper in a run stretching back to 1988. Whitney and Eminem both slip a place; Tom Jones holds to #4 as Britney drops two to #5. Iron Maiden records their 20th top 10 album in 20 years, but their first since 1995, as Brave New World enters at #7. Simply Red's Greatest Hits rebounds 26-10 as the album is deeply discounted in sales.
Heather Small's Proud can only make #12, Lynden David Hall's The Other Side bows at #36, two places ahead of Armand Van Helden's Killing Puritans. Bentley Rhythm Ace bows at #48 with For Your Ears Only, NOFX Pump Up the Valium at #50, Billy Bragg & Wilco's Mermaid Avenue Volume 2 #61, and Kid Rock's The History Of Rock #73.
Ignoring the catalogue climbers, gains for David Gray White Ladder 23-16, Hans Zimmer Gladiator OST 27-17, Doves Lost Souls re-enters at #59, as does Muse Showbiz at #69. Pink's album Can't Take Me Home sets some form of record, its chart run has now been 75-75-75.
UK Impact Chart
1 [1] Sonique: It Feels So Good (week 2) 2 [3] S Club 7: Reach 3 [2] Birtney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 4 [5] Madison Avenue: Don't Call Me Baby 5 [4] Bon Jovi: It's My Life 6 [6] Toni Brixton: He Wasn't Man Enough 7 [8] Sissy: Thong Song 8 new Stephen Gatley: A New Beginning 9 [7] Bloodhound Gang: The Bad Touch 10[9] Tom Jones / Mousse T: Sex Bomb ...also... 11 [42] Pink: There You Go 12 [60] Mary Mary: Shackles (Praise You) 15 new York: OTB (On The Beach) 19 new Dr Dre / Eminem: Forget About Dre 36 new Trevor & Simon: Put Your Hands Up 37 new Len: Cryptik Souls Crew 38 new Mikey Graham: You're My Angel
Personal Airplay
1 re Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 2 re Len: (If You) Steal My Sunshine 3 [1] Sonique: It Feels So Good 4 re Whitney Houston: My Love Is Your Love 5 new Len: Cryptik Souls Crew 6 new Nine Days: Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) 7 re Whitney Houston: It's Not Right (But It's OK) 8 [9] Santana: Smooth 9 [2] Meja & Ricky Martin: Private Emotion 10new Lou Reed & Various Artists: Perfect Day
The versions of Perfect Day were performed live on Monday evening 05.29 as part of the BBC's Music Live promotion. They have been aggregated as an event for this chart. Excluding these, #10 would be Don Henley's "Taking Me Home."
Also new: BBMak Back Here, Whitney Houston & Enrique Iglesias Could I Have This Kiss Forever, Joe I Wanna Know, S Club 7 Reach, Blink 182 What's My Age Again, Amore Is That Your Final Answer?
Returning: Meredith Brooks Bitch (1997), Cornershop Brimful of Asha (1998), Tori Amos Cornflake Girl (1994), Sugar Ray Every Morning (1999), Creed Higher (1999).
Another bum rap for Marshall Mathers, the rapper otherwise known as Eminem. He's been nicked in Detroit on weapons charges after an altercation with a barman, bailed, and freed on bail. He's also been charged with pointing a gun at a member of punk rockers Insane Clown Posse. If convicted of all three charges, we're looking at seven to nine years with Slim in chokey. Still no word of legal action over his unamusing lyrics.
Lonestar's award-winning chart-topping hit, Amazed, was voted the #1 love song of all time by 143,000 people polled over the course of a month. Other top vote-getters in the self-selecting online poll include Unchained Melody by Jimmy Young, the Righteous Brothers, Greene & Flynn and others at #2, (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams and the Fatima Mansions at #3, I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston at #4, My Heart Will Go On, by Celine Dion at #5.
Some saddo offers top popstrel Birtney's Pears $17 million for a night of rumpo. The top selling solo act of the last ten minutes told the un-named whore exactly where to sling his hook. Pears, whose greatest ambition is to be mentioned in the same sentence as Barbra Streisand without relying on a similar sounding song, is waiting till she's married or tastes Cory's grilled cheese. Maybe his ardour will have been cooled by confirmation that the red PVC suit featured in the video to "Oops I" contained plastic inserts. Without them, anything looks flat. Even after the knee op.
Mariah Carey threatens to leave Sony records after her contract expires with release of her next album. She might join Arista, home to Cantsing's career model Whitney Houston.
Westlife splits from their "manager" Ronan Cheating. The former Boyzone frontman was touted as the group's mentor, though his involvement in their success was dubious at best. The Irish fivesome will now officially be managed by Ronan's manager.
Despite a 55% drop from its debut week, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP continues to rack up big numbers, selling 794,000 and remaining #1 on The Billboard 200 for a second week. It holds off a charge by Kid Rock, whose The History Of Rock enters at #2, on 456,500 sales.
Britney Spears' Oops I Did It Again and mad season by matchbox twenty each drop one notch from last week, to #3 and #4 respectively. 'N Sync's No Strings Attached holds at #5, while the soundtrack to Mission: Impossible: 2 remains at #6. Creed's Human Clay slips up one to #7, Santana's Supernatural rockets back into the top 10 from #12 to #8, as does Sisqo's Unleash The Dragon, which jumps from #11 to #9.
Other debuts this week include the various artists compilation Totally Hits 2 at #14; metal stalwarts Iron Maiden's Brave New World at #39; the soundtrack to Big Momma's House at #51; Boney James/Rick Braun's Shake It Up at #78; Billy Bragg and Wilco's Mermaid Avenue Volume 2 at #88; and Lara Fabian's self-titled album at #101.
The Hot 100 sees its most active week in some time, as Aaliyah's Try Again finally bumps Santana's Maria Maria from the top of the chart where it had sat for 10 weeks. Try Again becomes the first cut ever to reach #1 without a commercial release, while Maria Maria plummets to #8.
Faith Hill's Breathe climbs two spots to #2, while Vertical Horizon's modern rock mainstay Everything You Want jumps from #8 to #3, showing the largest growth at radio.
Janet Jackson's Doesn't Really Matter, the first single from the forthcoming soundtrack to The Nutty Professor II, is this week's top debut at #59, while Westlife's Swear It Again is the fastest growing single at retail.
Two of the duets from Whitney Houston's greatest hits package "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" debut on the chart. Same Script, Different Cast, a duet with Deborah Cox, opens at #71, while Could I Have The Kiss Forever, a pairing with Enrique Iglesias, bows at #74.
...also...
albums
37 (36) Sting: brand new day
*49 (54) Savage Garden: affirmation
*96 (110)Mary J Blige: mary
*97 (101)Nine Days: madding crowd
heat
3 (1) BBMak: sooner or later
* 5 (13) S Club 7: s club
* 6 (6) Westlife
* 8 (11) Fenix TX
9 (4) Travis: the man who
*14 NEW FATE: for all that's endured
*20 (33) Nobody's Angel
indie
1 (1) Slipknot [week 7]
inet
1 (2) Eminem: the marshall mathers lp
4 (10) The John Tesh Project: pure movies 2
5 NEW Kid Rock: the history of rock
12 NEW Broadway Cast: aida
13 NEW Iron Maiden: brave new world
20 (18) Sting: brand new day
hot 100
*15 (19) N'Sync: it's gonna be me
*16 (18) Matchbox 20: bent
*20 (23) Jay-Z: big pimping
*21 (28) BBMak: back here
*25 (32) Westlife: swear it again
*26 (34) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
*28 (31) Chad Brock: yes!
31 (21) Sonique: it feels so good
*33 (42) Jagged Edge: let's get married
*37 (43) Backstreet Boys: the one
*40 (46) Next: wifey
*47 (49) LeeAnn Womack: i hope you dance
*48 (60) Son By Four: purest of pain (a puro dolor)
*50 (57) Destiny's Child: jumpin jumpin
modern rock
* 1 (1) Three Doors Down: kryptonite [week 5]
* 2 (3) Creed: with eyes wide open
* 5 (7) Everclear: wonderful
* 6 (8) A Perfect Circle: judith
*11 (18) Papa Roach: last resort
*14 (20) No Doubt: simple kind of life
country
* 1 (3) Chad Brock: yes!
* 3 (4) Clay Walker: the chain of love
* 9 (11) Tim McGraw: some things never change
*18 (20) Alan Jackson: it must be love
*20 (21) Dixie Chicks: cold day in july
r&b
1 (1) Carl Thomas: i wish [week 4]
* 3 (6) Jagged Edge: let's get married
*13 (17) Next: wifey
*16 (20) Deborah Cox & Whitney Houston: same script, different cast
*17 (23) Da Brat & Tyrese: what'chu like
adult top 40 #1: Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 8]
top 40 tracks #1: Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 5]
adult contemporary #1: Faith Hill: breathe [week 6]
mainstream rock #1: Metallica: i disappear [week 2]
TOTP
Hosted by Gail Porter, with a hairstyle that can only be described as the Claire Danes Pineapple from 1996
#2 - S Club 7: reach [as last week, perfect start] #3 - Stephen Gatley: new beginning [and nine chums, with sg at the front of a diamond. singers and guitarists at the front, strings and drum behind. sg in white. leaves a gaping hole in the middle, a bit like the song. especially after the drop of paper bits for the finale.] #6 - Pink: there you go [she's at the front, three dancers behind. very white set. great dancers, obvious earpiece by p.] #4 - York: on the beach [three female dancers in long skirts and skimpy tops. main attraction: chris rea on guitar.] #7 - Dr Dre & Eminem: forgot about dre [not a live link to a detroit court, but a taped performance. the naughty words are replaced and desrever, which kinda ruins the point.] #12 - Trevor & Simon: hands up [two guys in massive fake heads, another with a huge black wig. the two are behind desks with their names on (remember fats & small last year? exactly) the crowd have been given gladiator foam hands to wave about. the whole performance is relentlessly cheesy.] #5 - Mary Mary: shackles [the two on the central podium, grooving and singing live-ish. the crowd is out of time.] #1 - Sonique: it feels so good [repeat of last week's eerie performance.]
The Saturday repeat has Doves: catch the sun (#33) and Len: cryptik souls' crew (#27) in an extended slot.
It's reverse gear for the UK Album Charts as last week's top four reverse their positions for this week. Tom Jones' Reload returns to the top spot, ahead of Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP. Whitney's hits slips to 3, while Bon Jovi comes down to 4. Moby's Play moves back up one to 5, ahead of the highest new entry from cabaret singer Jane McDonald: Inspiration is new at 6. Gabrielle's Rise returns to the top 10, with Belle And Sebastian making their top 10 debut with Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant. Paul Van Dyk's Out There And Back debuts at #12, one place ahead of David Gray's White Ladder. Sting moves back up 7 to #23 with Brand New Day, and The Best Of Black Sabbath enters at #24. A-Ha's newie, Minor Earth Major Sky makes an entry at #27, and Steve Earle's Transcendental Blues #32. Muse's Showbiz is this week's Greatest Gainer, rocketing 69-41 on the release of a single. Pink climbs to a new peak at #73.
UK Impact Chart
1 [1] Sonique: It Feels So Good (week 3) 2 [2] S Club 7: Reach 3 new Richard Blackwood: Mama Who Da Man "comedian" re-makes junior giscome number. badly. 4 [3] Birtney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 5 [15]York: OTB (On The Beach) 6 [5] Bon Jovi: It's My Life 7 [90]Travis: Coming Around Again new release from scottish rockers 8 [12]Mary Mary: Shackles (Praise You) 9 [6] Toni Brixton: He Wasn't Man Enough 10[11]Pink: There You Go ...also... 14 new B15 Project: Girls Like Us minor reggae track gets dance remix. here today, gone tomorrow 16 new Fat Les: Jerusalem the unofficial english national anthem done for a football tournament 19 [96] Gabrielle: When A Woman jaunty, inoffensive number 20 [77] Whitney Houston & George Michael: If I Told You That another flop duet for whitney 27 new Angelic: It's My Turn trancey number 41 new Daphne & Celeste: UGLY return of the precocious brats 49 new Kelis: Good Stuff no it's not
Personal Airplay
1 [8] Santana: Smooth 2 [3] Sonique: It Feels So Good 3 re Lonestar: Amazed 4 new Moby: Porcelain another soft number from the polyplatinum play 5 new Corrs: Breathless not out for yonks 6 re Mary Mary: Shackles 7 re All Saints: Pure Shores 8 [1] Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 9 new Kent: Music Non Stop ear-wigging rock track 10new David Gray: Babylon fabbo ac number.
Also new: Barbra Streisand Woman In Love (1980, pre-dates the listings); Olson Brothers Fly On The Wings Of Love (Eurosong 00 winner)
Returning: Four Tops: Loco In Acapulco (1988); Bruce Hornsby & The Range The Way It Is (1986); All Saints Never Ever (1997)
A radio station's attempt to generate excitement by faking an appearance by Britney Spears ended when a woman in a crowd at the station collapsed. She died later at a hospital. Investigators said that, after a purported interview with Spears on Tuesday night, a woman pretending to be Spears emerged from the station to get into a limousine. About 100 people had gathered to greet her. A man who identified himself as the station manager but declined to give his name said he was "just trying to focus on the woman." "We're trying to figure out what happened," he said, declining further comment.
Rapper Eminem remained atop The Billboard 200 for the third straight week, as The Marshall Mathers LP moved 600,000 copies. Eminem was charged with felonious assault and possession of a concealed weapon in two separate incidents in the Detroit area during this sales week. Britney Spears' Oops! ... I Did It Again sold 369,700 units and returned from #3 to #2, swapping with Kid Rock's The History Of Rock, which sold 247,650 copies.
The top 10 remains largely unchanged this week, with the only new entry coming from Joe's album My Name Is Joe, which rebounded from #13 to #10. The Better Life, the latest from 3 Doors Down, is gaining fast, as it jumped from #19 to #11.
Veteran rocker Steve Earle's Transcendental Blues is this week's top debut, entering at #66. The various artists compilation Ultimate Dance Party 2000 debuted at #70, while Scottish pop outfit Belle & Sebastian's third album Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant bowed at #80, the group's first-ever appearance on the album chart.
Over on The Hot 100, there is a new #1 for the second week in a row, as Enrique Iglesias' Be With You assumes the top slot held last week by Aaliyah's Try Again, which fell to #2. Joe's I Wanna Know jumped from #10 to #6, while 'N Sync's It's Gonna Be Me was the fastest-growing track at radio, moving from #15 to #9.
This week's top debut came from Mariah Carey's Crybaby featuring Snoop Dogg, which opened at #28. Other new Hot 100 tracks this week include Alan Jackson's It Must Be Love at #76, Sisqo's Incomplete at #77, Jo Dee Messina's That's The Way at #78, Don Henley's Taking You Home at #79, and Dixie Chicks' Cold Day In July at #80.
also...
albums
*19 (26) Papa Roach: infest
*31 (37) Sting: brand new day
*41 (51) Big Momma's House OST
*54 (64) Britney Spears: ...baby one more time
57 (56) Bloodhound Gang: hooray for boobies
74 (39) Iron Maiden: brave new world
*78 (97) Nine Days: madding crowd
*90 (130)Jessica Simpson: sweet kisses
*92 (104)D'Angelo: voodoo
*95 new Nativity In Black - A Tribute to Black Sabbath
heat
* 1 (2) Yolanda Adams: mountain high... valley low
* 3 (3) BBMak: sooner or later
* 5 new Rascal Flatts
* 6 (6) Westlife
7 (5) S Club 7
11 (9) Travis: the man who
16 new Queens Of The Stone Age: r
*19 (24) Trin-i-tee 5:7: spiritual love
indie
1 new Steve Earle: transcendent blues
3 new Belle & Sebastian: fold your hands child...
11 new Alice Cooper: brutal planet
17 new Sandra Collins: tranceport 3
inet
1 (1) Eminem: the marshall mathers lp [week 2]
7 (14) A Perfect Circle: mer de noms
10 new Belle & Sebastian: ... you walk like a peasant
15 (20) Sting: brand new day
17 re Lee Ann Womack: i hope you dance
19 new Billy Bragg & Wilco: mermaid avenue volume 2
hot 100
*11 (13) Creed: higher
*13 (16) Matchbox Twenty: bent
15 (8) Santana / Product G&B: maria maria
*18 (21) BBMak: back here
*20 (26) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
*21 (25) Westlife: swear it again
*31 (37) Backstreet Boys: the one
38 (31) Sonique: it feels so good
*40 (50) Destiny's Child: jumpin jumpin
*41 (47) Lee Ann Womack: i hope you dance
*45 (52) Sting / Cheb Mami: desert rose
*46 (53) Dr Dre / Snoop Dogg: the next episode
*49 (55) Lucy Pearl: dance tonight
modern rock
* 1 (1) 3 Doors Down: kryptonite [week 6]
*10 (15) Limp Bizkit: take a look around
*11 (16) Metallica: i disappear
*12 (17) Dynamite Hack: boyz n the hood
*14 (32) Eve 6: promise
*19 (23) SR-71: right now
country
1 (1) Chad Brock: yes![week 2]
* 2 (6) Lee Ann Womack: i hope you dance
*13 (16) Lonestar: what about now
*20 (22) Jo Dee Messina: that's the way
r&b
1 (1) Carl Thomas: i wish [week 5]
* 2 (4) Donell Jones: where i wanna be
* 5 (10) Lucy Pearl: dance tonight
* 9 (13) Next: wifey
*17 (21) Dr Dre & Snoop Dogg: the next episode
*19 (27) Sisqo: incomplete
adult top 40
1 (1) Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 9]
* 6 (8) Sting: desert rose
*11 (13) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
*20 (22) Don Henley: taking you home
adult contemporary #1: Faith Hill: breathe [week 7]
mainstream rock #1: Metallica: i disappear [week 3]
top 40 tracks #1: Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 6]
TOTP
Presented by Gail Porter, extended to 45 minutes, but relegated to BBC TWO for some football.
#16 Daphne & Celeste: u.g.l.y. fabbo! more stage prescence than anyone else this week, cute as two buttons and infectiously enthusiastic. #5 Travis: comin' around the purple icicles from two weeks ago return. #6 Gabrielle: when a woman with wraparound shades, a bad ponytail, and a huge fringe, she looks a throwback from the 80s. stills on the video screen also look poor. is that dana international on backing vocals? #11 Angelic: it's my turn dull, singer amongst poor dancers. chopped after a minute. #10 Fat Les: jerusalem huge numbers of people - 105 on stage, says gail. stirring stuff by anyone's standards. an obvious candidate for the bbc's pre-match show tomorrow, so they won't show it. #19 Kelis: good stuff still loads of hair dye, still poor dancing (by us standards). #20 Muse: unintended dark, dark blue "lighting" that doesn't. eerie, atmospheric performance. this will win many, many fans. #7 B15 Project: girls like us named after the postcode for the rich bitch studios, apparently. three frontsladies on vocals, two couples prance around behind them. as cliched as the record. #9 Whitney Houston & George Michael: if i told you that the video! first one not at #1 this year. #3 Richard Blackwood: mama who da man unimaginative. rotten from the core. #1 Sonique: it feels so good new performance, and even more creepy than the last one how does she do it?
A new leader in the album chart, as S Club 7's second album, 7, gives the group their first topper. It knocks Tom Jones' Reload to 2, Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP to 3. Moby's Play climbs one to 4, and Whitney's Greatest Hits comes 3-5. Santana's Supernatural shoots up 14-8, and Travis' The Man Who 16-11. There are high new entries for Classic Sinatra at #10, the first new Sinatra compilation since his death two years ago; Riding With The King from BB King and Eric Clapton at 15; Hear My Cry for Sonique at #21, Bow Down To The Exit Sign from dance producer David Holmes at #22 and OVO for Peter Gabriel at #24. There are big climbs for Shania Twain's The Woman In Me 36-26 and Lesley Garrett I Will Wait For You 38-28. Alice Cooper puts Brutal Planet in at #38, The Dandy Warhols tell Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia at #51, Sinead O'Connor's Faith And Courage #61, and Paul Carrack's Satisfy My Soul #63.
UK Impact Chart
1 [1] Sonique: It Feels So Good (week 4) 2 new Black Legend: You See the Trouble With Me dodgy dance cover of a barry white number 3 [8] Mary Mary: Shackles (Praise You) 4 [2] S Club 7: Reach 5 [4] Birtney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 6 [51]Backstreet Boys: The One weakest song on their album is still classy 7 new Moby: Porcelain sixth single from the album, and biggest hit yet 8 [10]Pink: There You Go 9 [6] Bon Jovi: It's My Life 10new Darrude: sandstorm finnish dance act has a hit. roll that round the tongue and see how it feels. ...also... 29 new Jamelia: call me one-hit wonder, it feels.
Personal Airplay
1 [8] Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 2 [2] Sonique: It Feels So Good 3 re Lene Marlin: Sitting Down Here 4 [10]David Gray: Babylon 5 [6] Mary Mary: Shackles 6 [3] Lonestar: Amazed 7 re Mel C / Lisa Lopes: Never Be The Same Again 8 re Lightning Seeds / Baddiel / Skinner: Three Lions the 1996 hit is reactivated for another big football tournament. 9 new Backstreet Boys: The One backstreet-by-numbers? 10new Blink 182: What's My Age Again? welcome re-release for the punks.
New - Dumdums Can't Get You Out of My Thoughts ... Travis Coming Around ... Space Diary Of A Wimp ... and back ... Steps Tragedy (1997)
Stevie Wonder will be the lifetime achievement honoree, Atlantic Records co-CEO Ahmet Ertegun will receive the inaugural Founders Award, and Marvin Gaye will be the subject of the legacy tribute during the 11th annual Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards, set for Sept 6 at New York's Manhattan Center. This year's slate of R&B Pioneer award recipients includes Johnnie Johnson, Clyde Otis, the Chi-Lites and the Impressions.
Posh and Beckham are taking legal action against Andrew Morton over an unauthorised biography. The publisher isn't scared, as the amount of hype surrounding the book will lead to huge sales. Morton, previously best known for hagiographies of Diana Windsor and Monica Lewinsky, clearly has a penchant for the brain-dead.
For the fourth straight week, Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP is on top of The Billboard 200, with sales of 520,000. Britney Spears' sophomore set, Oops! ... I Did It Again, sold another 324,000 copies and remained at #2 for the second straight week.
There are three top 10 debuts, Eric Clapton and BB King's Riding With The King entered at #3, on 193,000 sold. Rap outfit Three 6 Mafia's When The Smoke Clears Sixty 6 Sixty 1 opened at #6 (157,000 copies), and Bon Jovi's Crush bowed at #9 (115,000 copies).
Other new entries this week include the soundtrack to Shaft at #22; Roadrunner's various artists sampler MTV Return Of The Rock at #50; Sinead O'Connor's Faith & Courage at #55; veteran punk band NOFX's Pump Up The Valium at #61; and the soundtrack to Gone In 60 Seconds at #69.
Underground rock trio Modest Mouse makes its chart debut as The Moon & Antarctica enters at #120. Duran Duran's Pop Trash opened at #135; Canadian rockers the Tragically Hip's Music @ Work opened at #139; Uncle Kracker's Double Wide at #161; and Poison's Power To The People at #166.
Papa Roach's Infest was the fastest-growing set at retail, and jumped from #19 to #12. Fenix TX's self-titled album shows the highest percentage growth, climbing from #158 to #115.
Over on The Hot 100, Enrique Iglesias' Be With You enjoyed its second week at #1, while Aaliyah's Try Again held tight at #2. But a big move came from Christina Aguilera's I Turn To You, which rocketed from #17 to #3 after a commercial single was released. Joe's I Wanna Know continued its upward swing, moving from #6 to #4, while 'N Sync It's Gonna Be Me jumped from #9 to #7. Pink's There You Go rose two notches from #12 to #10.
No Doubt's Simple Kind Of Life is this week's top debut at #50, followed by new tracks from Jessica Simpson I Think I'm In Love With You at #63; Creed No More at #76; DMX featuring Sisqo What You Want at #99; and tha Eastsidaz featuring Jayo Felony and Blaqthoven Got Beef at #100.
also...
albums
*21 (24) Dixie Chicks: fly
*24 (31) Sting: brand new day
*57 (67) George Strait: latest greatest straitest hits
*66 (90) Jessica Simpson: sweet kisses
*68 (78) Nine Days: madding crowd
*71 (79) Tim McGraw: a place in the sun
*77 (105)Neil Young: silver and gold
*78 (101)Steely Dan: two against nature
*88 (96) Ideal
*93 (120)Alan Jackson: under the influence
*97 (121)A*Teens: the abba generation
*99 (128)Kenny Rogers: she rides wild horses
*100(110)Toby Keith: how do you like me now?!
heat
* 1 (3) BBMak: sooner or later
* 4 (8) Fenix TX
* 5 new Modest Mouse: the moon & antarctica
* 7 (21) Brad Paisley: who needs pictures
* 8 new The Tragically Hip: music @ work
10 (6) Westlife
*12 new Uncle Kracker: double wide
13 (7) S Club 7
*15 (24) Nobody's Angel
16 (11) Travis: the man who
indie
* 1 new Three 6 Mafia: when the smoke clears...
* 2 new MTV The Return Of The Rock: va
* 3 new NOFX: pump up the valuum
9 (3) Belle & Sebastian: fold your hands child...
*12 new Poison: power to the people
*17 new Slum Village: fantastic vol 2
inet
1 new BB King & Eric Clapton: riding with the king
3 new Bon Jovi: crush
6 new Tragically Hip: music @ work
8 new Sinead O'Connor: faith & courage
12 new Duran Duran: pop trash
14 re Vigilantes of love: audible sigh
17 (15) Sting: brand new day
hot 100
*12 (13) Matchbox 20: bent
*17 (20) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
*18 (18) BBMak: back here
*20 (21) Westlife: swear it again
*25 (32) Avant: separated
*35 (45) Sting / Cheb Mami: desert rose
*37 (40) Destiny's Child: jumpin jumpin
*38 (41) Lee Ann Womack: i hope you dance
*41 (46) Dr Dre / Snoop Dogg: the next episode
*42 (49) Lucy Pearl: dance tonight
*43 (52) Janet: doesn't really matter
*47 (51) 3 Doors Down: kryptonite
49 (38) Sonique: it feels so good
modern rock
* 1 (1) 3 Doors Down: kryptonite [week 7]
country
1 (1) Chad Brock: yes! [week 3]
5 (7) Clay Davidson: unconditional
9 (12) Rascal Flatts: prayin' for daylight
r&b
1 (1) Carl Thomas: i wish [week 6]
6 (9) Next: wifey
* 7 (11) Joe: i wanna know
*14 (19) Sisqo: incomplete
*17 (24) Sisqo: thong song
*19 (31) Ruff Endz: no more
adult top 40
1 (1) Vertical Horizon: everything you want [week 10]
2 (3) Matchbox 20: bent
4 (6) Sting / Cheb Mami: desert rose
9 (8) Santana / Rob Thomas: smooth {52nd week on}
10 (11) Nine Days: absolutely (story of a girl)
19 (22) Sister Hazel: change your mind
adult contemporary #1: Faith Hill: breathe [week 8]
mainstream rock #1: Metallica: i disappear [week 4]
top 40 tracks #1: N'Sync: it's gonna be me [week 1]
TOTP
Sadly, I missed this week's edition. The appearance list...
#6 Mary Mary: shackles #3 Darude: sandstorm #5 Moby: porcelain #11 Jamelia: call me #32 Idlewild: these wooden ideas #17 Richard Ashcroft: money to burn PRE Macy Gray: why didn't you call me #1 Black Legend: you see the trouble with me
Another week, another new album chart #1. In its third week of release, Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP rises 3-1, ahead of Moby's Play 4-2 and S Club 7 7 1-3. Tom Jones Reload (4-2) and Gabrielle Rise (7-5) round out the top five. David Gray's White Ladder climbs 13-7, with Stephen Gatley's New Beginning the highest entry at #9, ahead of the Deftones' White Pony #13 and Jurassic 5 Quality Control #23. Andrea Bocelli Sogno re-enters at #26, after he provides the theme to coverage of Euro 2000. Big climbs for Blink 182 Enema Of the State 43-30, and pVengaboys The Platinum Album 50-34. New entries include Busta Rhymes Anarchy #38; Duran Duran Pop Trash #53, and a Moby rarity, I Like To Score #71.
UK Impact Chart
1 [1] Sonique: It Feels So Good (week 5) 2 [2] Black Legend: You See the Trouble With Me 3 new Kylie Minouge: Spinning Around her biggest hit since 1994 4 [10] Darrude: Sandstorm 5 [3] Mary Mary: Shackles (Praise You) 6 [5] Birtney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 7 [4] S Club 7: Reach 8 [6] Backstreet Boys: The One 9 [9] Bon Jovi: It's My Life 10[8] Pink: There You Go ...also... 11 new David Gray: Babylon utter classic soft rock. 18 new Frankie Goes To Hollywood: The Power Of Love dodgy techno remix of the 1984 list-leader 22 new Damage: Ghetto Romance comeback single - they've lost the knack 23 new Girl Thing: Last One Standing corporate wannabe spice girls
Personal Airplay
1 [5] Mary Mary: Shackles 2 [2] Sonique: It Feels So Good 3 re Santana: Smooth 4 new S Club 7: Reach five weeks on release, finally getting decent airplay 5 re Meja / Ricky Martin: Private Emotion 6 [9] Backstreet Boys: The One 7 [6] Lonestar: Amazed 8 [1] Britney Spears: Oops I Did It Again 9 re All Saints: Pure Shores 10[4] David Gray: Babylon
New - Sherena Dugarry Accidental Angel ... Splenderer I Think I Can Explain ... Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance ... Carl Thomas I Wish ... N'Sync It's Gonna Be Me ... Coldplay Yellow
... back ... Shania Twain That Don't Impress Me Much (1999) ... Brandy & Monica The Boy Is Mine (1998)
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