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Faith Fires Up the Charts
08/10/2005 3:09 PM, E! Online
David Jenison
There's definitely no King of the Hill on this week's chart!
With her new album Fireflies, country crossover star
Faith Hill scored her third consecutive number one on the charts. Hill's
latest benefits from her new hit single "Mississippi Girl," which was
co-written by Big & Rich's John Rich.
Fireflies
finished up its debut week selling 329,000 copies, according to Nielsen
SoundScan numbers released today. (In comparison, Hill hubby Tim McGraw
sold a whopping 766,000 first-week copies last year with Live Like
You Were Dying.)
With Fireflies, Hill becomes
the third country artist to top the charts this year, preceded by George Strait and Kenny Chesney, and the first female country crooner to do so
since the Dixie Chicks in early 2003. Hill, who made her label debut in
'93, previously topped the charts with 1999's Breathe and 2002's
Cry.
With Hill taking over the top spot, Now
That's What I Call Music! 19 dropped to number two, selling 177,000
discs.
Detroit singer Teairra Mari scored the week's
next best bow as Roc-A-Fella Presents Teairra Mari sold nearly
69,000 copies at five. The 17-year-old singer's lead single, "Make Her
Feel Good," features "retired" rapper Jay-Z, marking his first official
collaboration since becoming President of Def Jam Records.
Kidz Bop 8, the latest collection of radio hits redone by
little ones, sold 67,000 copies at number six. The new disc features
covers of the Backstreet Boys' "Incomplete," Frankie J's "Obsession (No
Es Amor)" and Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."
The rest of the Top 10 albums, all holdovers, included Mariah Carey's
Emancipation of Mimi at three, Young Jeezy's Let's Get It
at four, Coldplay's X&Y at seven, Black Eyed Peas' Monkey
Business at eight, Kelly Clarkson's Breakaway at nine and
Gorillaz' Demon Days in the ten spot.
London-born singer Natasha Bedingfield sold 34,000 copies of her debut,
Unwritten, to debut at 26. Also scoring strong opens, Christian
rocker's Emery bowed in at 45 with Question while seminal rappers
Public Enemy followed at 69 with Power To The People and The Beats:
Public Enemy's Greatest Hits.
Other noteworthy
debuts included Grupo Bryndis' Por Muchas at 79, Blindside's
Great Depression at 89 and Alice Cooper's Dirty Diamonds
at 169.
To recap, the Top 10 albums for the week ended
Sunday were as follows:
1. Fireflies, Faith
Hill
2. Now That's What I Call Music! 19, various
3. The Emancipation of Mimi, Mariah Carey
4. Let's Get
It, Young Jeezy
5. Roc-A-Fella Presents Teairra
Mari, Teairra Mari
6. Kidz Bop 6, Kidz Bop
7.
X&Y, Coldplay
8. Monkey Business, Black Eyed
Peas
9. Breakaway, Kelly Clarkson
10. Demon
Days, Gorillaz
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