The soundtrack to the WB series “Dawson’s Creek” logged an impressive 88,000-plus unit bow and landed in the No. “Believe” posted a sales decline of more than 7,000 units from the previous chart, a far cry from the significant gains earned by Cher’s April 13 appearance on VH1’s “Divas Live ’99” and subsequent airings of the show. Spears’ rise, which put the album over the 2.5 million-unit mark in its 16th week, shunted the ascension of Cher’s “Believe” disc. Sales of the teen queen’s Jive Records disc were boosted by a May 1 appearance on Nickelodeon’s “Kids’ Choice” Awards telecast and a number of first-time chat show stops such as “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “Regis & Kathie Lee.” The shift by label marketeers to a new single, “Sometimes,” from the title track is also reigniting consumer interest in the disc. 5 for the second consecutive week and nabbed a more than 7,000-unit sales spike. The rise of Twain’s disc was helped by VH1’s reruns of her “Winter Break” spec, which bowed on CBS earlier this year, and the cabler’s reruns of Twain’s “Behind the Music” episode.īritney Spears’ “Baby One More Time” album held steady at No. Twain’s Mercury Nashville disc posted an uptick of more than 8,000 copies over last week’s chart and was one of only eight discs in the Top 20 list - save for debuts - that posted sales increases over the previous chart. 4 album, Shania Twain’s “Come on Over,” by more than 9,000 copies. 3 with a tally of more than 130,000 units.ĭespite logging a 22,000-unit decline from the previous week, Nas’ sales nonetheless topped the No. Nas’ Columbia Records disc “I Am” slid a notch to No. BMG’s nabbed 17%, Sony landed 15.4% and was ahead of Warner’s 15% and EMI’s 7%. Of the Big Five congloms, Universal Music Group was the industry’s market share leader for current albums with 27%. The year-to-date tally was also down by almost the same amount during the traditionally slow period for the industry heading into the summer months. For the week ended May 2, overall industry sales action was soft again for the third consecutive week and down around 4% over the same period in 1998.
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