Strong Start for Nine Inch Nails

People wondered whether Nine Inch Nails’ aggro-angst rock would still have a following after five years away, and some still wonder whether the two-CD price of its new album will give it a short life span, but in their first week at least, Trent Reznor and company were a hit, topping both the national and Southern California charts and leading an influx of new releases in the Top 10.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 The Fragile, Nine Inch Nails (1) -- 2 Love Like Ours, Barbra Streisand (6) -- 3 Supernatural, Santana (3) 1 4 To Venus and Back, Tori Amos (12) -- 5 Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera (4) 3 6 Back at One, Brian McKnight (7) -- 7 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (2) 2 8 Euphoria Morning, Chris Cornell (18) -- 9 Baby, One More Time, Britney Spears (10) 8 10 Significant Other, Limp Bizkit (11) 7

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Heartbreaker, Mariah Carey (1) -- 2 I Want It All, Warren G (11) 1 3 I Need to Know, Marc Anthony (4) 3 4 Smooth, Santana (2) 10 5 She’s All I Ever Had, Ricky Martin (5) 2 6 My Love Is Your Love, Whitney Houston (3) 6 7 Bailamos, Enrique Iglesias (12) 4 8 Lost in You, Garth Brooks (7) 5 9 Unpretty, TLC (9) 7 10 Spend My Life With You, Eric Benet (19) 9

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Sept. 26