D'Angelo will mark the beginning of Black History Month in style this
week.
The R&B; singer/songwriter will debut at #1 on the Billboard 200
albums chart with Voodoo, a passionate, slow-burning album that
evokes the sounds of Curtis Mayfield, Sly Stone, Prince and other
celebrated black pop composers.
The album, which features the singles "Left & Right" and "Untitled (How
Does It Feel)" and a cover of Roberta Flack's "Feel Like Makin' Love,"
sold 321,067 copies in the week ending Sunday, according to sales data
released on Wednesday (Feb. 2) by SoundScan. It will bump Santana's
Supernatural, which spent the previous three weeks at #1, to #2.
Rounding out the top 10 are: rapper/producer Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre 2001
(#3); pop singer Celine Dion's All the Way: A Decade of Song
(#4); hip-hop trio the LOX's We Are the Streets (#5); teen-pop
singer Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut (#6); rapper DMX's ...
And Then There Was X (#7); Italian dance-pop trio Eiffel 65's
Europop (#8); the hits compilation Now That's What I Call
Music (#9); and pop group the Backstreet Boys' Millennium
(#10).
The LOX album also is debuting on the chart this week. We Are the
Streets, the Yonkers, N.Y., group's second LP, is an ode to gunplay,
misogyny and all-around ruggedness, as celebrated on the single "Wild Out"
excerpt).
"You can't give us flak for that, because we sayin' what we wanna say,"
LOX member Styles (born David Styles), 25, said last week. "You ain't
gonna give flak to Lauryn Hill for sayin' what she wants to say. We
just ain't sayin' that kind of sh--. We just sayin' what we wanna say."
The R&B; group Guy, which christened the term new jack swing in the late
'80s, will see their first album in 10 years, Guy III, debut at
#13. Group mastermind Teddy Riley devoted time to the album in between
working with such heavyweights as Michael Jackson and creating hits for
the groups Wreckx-N-Effect and Blackstreet. Singer Aaron Hall also has
enjoyed a successful solo career. Guy III includes "Teddy's Jam
III" and "Love Online."
Other chart debuts this week include the hard-rock soundtrack to the
horror film "Scream 3," at #33, and Memphis, Tenn., rap group Three 6
Mafia's Three 6 Mafia Presents Hypnotize Camp Posse, at #36.
Creed — whose Human Clay debuted at #1 in October — are
the "Scream 3" soundtrack's executive producers and contribute two songs
to the album, "What If" and "Is This the End." Godsmack, Orgy and
Powerman 5000 also contributed new songs to the album.
Meanwhile, each track of the Three 6 Mafia LP features a combination of
group members D.J. Paul and Juicy "J" — who together also produced
the record — and guests, including T-Rock, Project Pat and Tear da
Club Up Thugs.
Another debut of note: Veteran rock singer/songwriter Warren Zevon's
Life'll Kill Ya will come in at #173, with sales of 6,699 copies.
Zevon, famous for the 1978 novelty hit "Werewolves of London," returns
with more smirk-inducing titles, including "My Shit's Fucked Up," "Dirty
Little Religion" and "For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer."
The soundtrack to the movie "Magnolia" continues to move up the chart,
jumping 10 places this week to #58. Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann,
onetime leader of the pop group 'Til Tuesday, wrote and performed on
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