American chartwatch. (International).

In a week of upheaval unrivalled in 2002, there are five new entries to the top six albums this week, with the boastful and inaccurately-titled P Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present ... We Invented The Remix taking pole position, with high-flying debuts also for Cam'ron's Come Home To Me (number two), Weezer's Maladroit (number three), Moby's 18 (number four) and Rush's Vapor Trails (number six). Only the tenacity of Musiq's Juslissen (1-5) prevents new entries from making a clean sweep of the top five.

The P Diddy set features not just his own work but also mixes of tracks such as No More Drama by Mary J Blige, and Ashanti's Unfoolish, which features a ghostly beyond-the-grave contribution from the Notorious BIG. The set sold 256,000 copies last week, 30,000 more than runner-up Cam'ron's Come Home For Me. Of the rest, the outstanding performance comes from Moby's 18. Although unable to match its number one debut in the UK, the album debuts 34 places higher than the peak scaled by Moby's last album, Play, and sold a creditable 126,000 last week.

Slightly overshadowed by the mass invasion of the Top 10, Van Morrison's (pictured) latest set Down The Road nevertheless does very nicely. Debuting at number 25 with sales of 36,400, it is the highest charting album by a UK act this ...