Snoop Dogg Grabs Top Southland Spot

Snoop Dogg may have jumped to New Orleans-based No Limit Records, but the Long Beach native remains a favorite son on his home turf. The rapper’s new album with Tha Outsidaz debuted at No. 1 on the Southern California sales chart, while registering at No. 8 nationally. Another local rapper is also enjoying home cooking: The Ice Cube-led “Next Friday” soundtrack is No. 8 in the Southland and No. 25 nationally.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz, Snoop Dogg/Eastsidaz (8) -- 2 Supernatural, Santana (2) 2 3 Dr. Dre 2001, Dr. Dre (3) 3 4 Voodoo, D’Angelo (1) 1 5 Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera (5) 5 6 All the Way--A Decade of Song, Celine Dion (4) 4 7 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (11) 7 8 Next Friday, soundtrack (25) 6 9 Europop, Eiffel 65 (6) 9 10 On How Life Is, Macy Gray (27) 10

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Thank God I Found You, Mariah Carey (1) 1 2 Get It on Tonite, Montell Jordan (2) 2 3 Maria Maria, Santana (3) 6 4 All the Small Things, Blink-182 (5) 5 5 G’d Up, Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz (14) 4 6 I Knew I Loved You, Savage Garden (6) 3 7 Hot Boyz, Missy Elliott (4) 9 8 It Feels So Good, Sonique (11) 18 9 Shake Your Bon-Bon, Ricky Martin (7) 7 10 What a Girl Wants, Christina Aguilera (16) 8

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Feb. 6