Grammy Album Finds Its Audience

Is the Southland excited about hosting the Grammys? That might explain the strong showing on the Southern California sales chart of “2000 Grammy Pop Nominees,” a compilation of contenders for next week’s awards including Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray, Britney Spears and Santana. The album debuted at No. 9 locally, but only No. 19 nationwide. On the singles chart, the average age dropped again with the arrival of a new Britney Spears song and the debut hit from Hoku.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Supernatural, Santana (1) 2 2 Dr. Dre 2001, Dr. Dre (2) 3 3 Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz, Snoop Dogg/Eastsidaz (14) 1 4 Voodoo, D’Angelo (4) 4 5 Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera (5) 5 6 All the Way--A Decade of Song, Celine Dion (3) 6 7 Europop, Eiffel 65 (6) 9 8 On How Life Is, Macy Gray (18) 10 9 2000 Grammy Pop Nominees, various (19) -- 10 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (12) 7

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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 Maria Maria, Santana (2) 3 3 Get It On Tonite, Montell Jordan (5) 2 4 From the Bottom of My Broken Heart, Britney Spears (3) 8 5 All the Small Things, Blink-182 (6) 4 6 G’d Up, Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz (19) 5 7 Hot Boyz, Missy Elliott (4) 7 8 I Knew I Loved You, Savage Garden (13) 6 9 It Feels So Good, Sonique (9) 8 10 Another Dumb Blonde, Hoku (11) 11

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Feb. 13