‘Affirmation’ Finds a Spot on Top 10

Savage Garden’s “I Knew I Loved You” logs its second consecutive week as the top-selling single in the Southland, and that hit this week also powers the album “Affirmation” up eight notches to crack this week’s Top 10. Eiffel 65’s “Europop” is the other new arrival in the tally of the region’s 10 best-selling albums.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Supernatural, Santana (1) 1 2 Dr. Dre 2001, Dr. Dre (3) 2 3 All the Way--A Decade of Song, Celine Dion (2) 3 4 Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera (4) 4 5 Next Friday, soundtrack (19) 5 6 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (9) 8 7 Now 3, various artists (7) 6 8 Affirmation, Savage Garden (15) 16 9 Enema of the State, Blink-182 (21) 10 10 Europop, Eiffel 65 (6) 15

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 I Knew I Loved You, Savage Garden (1) 1 2 Get It on Tonite, Montell Jordan (3) -- 3 G’d Up, Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz (15) 3 4 What a Girl Wants, Christina Aguilera (4) 2 5 You Can Do It/Money Stretch, Ice Cube and Lil’ Zane (12) 4 6 Hot Boyz, Missy Elliott (2) 5 7 All the Small Things, Blink-182 (7) -- 8 Girl on TV, LFO (9) 7 9 Shake Your Bon-Bon, Ricky Martin (6) -- 10 It Feels So Good, Sonique (14) 18

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Jan. 23