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Surprises Atop Billboard 200 Album Chart
Santana jumped back up to number one on the Billboard 200 album chart this week, sending multi-talented D'Angelo down to number four. But the real eye-opener was Wu-Tang rapper Ghostface Killah 's "Supreme Clientele," which debuted at number seven.
Santana's ''Supernatural,'' which has been on the charts for 35 weeks, nailed the coup with sales of 217,000 copies, compared to D'Angelo's "Voodoo," which sold 155,000 according to Soundscan. Dr. Dre's ''Dr. Dre 2001'' jumped a spot to number two, while some of the usual suspects--Celine Dion's ''All The Way ... A Decade Of Song'' and Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut--filled in the number three and five spots.
Ghostface Killah, whose second album has caught the critics' notice as a stronger disc than recent albums by other Wu-Tang members, sold 134,700 copies this week, according to his label Epic. Besides top-ten placement on the Billboard 200, Ghostface hit number two on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop charts.
Ghostface (aka Dennis Coles) is on a promotional tour for the album, while his synth-heavy track "Apollo Kids" just entered Black Entertainment Television's video rotation. On March 4, Epic plans to release a second radio single, "One."
