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AMERICAN CHARTWATCH.
The Beatles' 1 is the best-selling album in America for the eighth time in 10 weeks. Its lead at the top of the chart has been slashed from 69,000 to 12,000 by Shaggy, who has more luck on the singles chart, where It Wasn't Me climbs into pole position to end the 11-week reign of Independent Women by Destiny's Child. Shaggy's Hot Shot album sold 203,000 copies last week, helped by the popularity of both It Wasn't Me and also the follow-up single Again, which vaults 24-19 -- but still this was no match for The Beatles' 1, which sold a further 215,000 copies.
1 has compiled an astonishing sequence of 10 weeks in a row when it has sold more than 200,000 copies, with cumulative sales of 5.81m. It has spent longer at number one than any Beatles album since Abbey Road, which topped the chart for 11 weeks in 1969/70. The album is unlikely to be number one next week, however -- early projections suggest Jennifer Lopez's J.Lo will take the prize with sales of around 250,000, although the hip-hop/R&B soundtrack album Save The Last Dance (which has jumped 41-11-3 in the last fortnight) is another contender, and there is always Shaggy.
After dipping 9-10 last week, Dido's album No Angel recovers to reach a new peak, climbing to number eight. The album sold nearly 83,000 copies last week, 3,000 more than the previous week. Dido's single Thank You ...
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- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
Increasing number of Asian viewers are turning to illegally obtained satellite channels to watch the imminent World Cup broadcasts. Illegal sales...
- Canadian Internet homes opt for broadband.
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...households now use high-speed Internet connection. Number of Internet homes in Canada connected with broadband...online for longer--an average of 14.3 hours a week, compared with 8.6 hours a week for dial-up users--and are more inclined to...
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- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest May 1, 2002 700+ words
...is the pay TV decoder box. An additional half a per cent of German homes are installing d-boxes in their homes. And the number of homes with VCRs is actually falling, down by an impressive 4.1 per cent of all homes during 2001. The replacement of...
- Fewer US acting roles as producers decamp.
- Newspaper article from: Screen Digest July 1, 2002 700+ words
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