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Dido and BEP set to lead 2003 charts.(The Market)

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Fourteen albums debut on the Top 75 this week, but none of them is nearly strong enough to prevent Dido's Life For Rent from completing a fourth week at number one. The album declined just 27% its smallest dip yet--to sell a further 89,500 copies. After 27 days on release it has sold more than 811,000 copies, improving its year-to-dale ranking to sixth. While it is still 314,000 sales behind the year's top album--Justin Timberlake's Justified--it seems certain to emerge as the biggest seller of the year, just as her previous album No angel topped the 2001 rankings.

Meanwhile, Black Eyed Peas' Where Is The Love? single should topple Gareth Gates & The Kumars' Spirit In The Sky From the top of the 2003 singles chart as early as tomorrow (Tuesday). After seven weeks in a row in which its sales topped the 50,000 mark--ranging from a high of 94,308 to a low of 52,553--Where Is The Love suffered its worst decline yet last week, with sales slipping 25.9% to just under 39,000. To top the 50,000 mark seven weeks ill a row was an impressive feat--even the 21st Century's top single, Will Young's Anything Is ...

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