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While his single Angel is knocked off the top of the Hot 100 after just one week by Crazy Town's Butterfly, Shaggy has better luck on the albums chart, where Hotshot's 188,000 sales are enough to earn it a sixth week at number one. Shaggy was expected to cede pole position on this chart to 112, but their Part III album fell 6,000 short of the required mark.
Three other new entries invade the Top 10 -- rapper Trick Daddy at number four, soul man Jon B at number six and the hip hop heavy Exit Wounds soundtrack (which includes artists like DMX, Nas and Three 6 Mafia) at number eight. Among the acts to slide as a result is Dido, whose No Angel dips 4-7 despite selling a further 98,000 copies.
Meanwhile, The Beatles' 1 is down a notch to number 13, but should have topped the impressive 7m mark by the time MW went to press. Eric Clapton's Reptile slides 5-17, providing the rock legend with his fastest-declining album in more than 20 years. Every one of the other 14 British and Irish acts in the chart is also in decline, as follows: Sade (30-36), U2 (31-38), Enya (39-46), The Corrs (42-47), Coldplay (61-65), David Gray (pictured) (69-85), S Club 7 (85-94), ...