Brooks Leads Pack of Album Entries

Garth Brooks’ “Garth Brooks Double Live” led a flurry of new entries into the Southern California album charts this week. Debuts by Jewel, Ice Cube, Offspring, Method Man, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston joined the country star in the local album Top 10, while the only debut record to reach the singles chart was the R. Kelly-Celine Dion duet on “I’m Your Angel.”

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Garth Brooks Double Live, Garth Brooks (1) -- 2 Spirit, Jewel (3) -- 3 War & Piece Vol. 1, Ice Cube (7) -- 4 Americana, Offspring (6) -- 5 Tical 2000: Judgment Day, Method Man (2) -- 6 No. 1’s, Mariah Carey (4) -- 7 Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie, Alanis Morissette (8) 1 8 These Are Special Times, Celine Dion (5) 4 9 My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston (13) -- 10 Human Being, Seal (22) --

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Lately, Divine (2) 1 2 Pushin’ Weight, Ice Cube (13) 3 3 Nobody’s Supposed to Be Here, Deborah Cox (3) 8 4 I’m Your Angel, R. Kelly & Celine Dion (1) -- 5 Love Me, 112 (9) 6 6 Westside, TQ (12) 2 7 Doo Wop (That Thing), Lauryn Hill (5) 5 8 It’s All Because of You, 98 Degrees (4) 4 9 Love Like This, Faith Evans (10) 7 10 I Still Love You, Next (19) 9

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Nov. 22