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(7/11/01 3:07 am) Reply
Another Alicia Article (AAA lol)
Clive rides high as Keys cops No. 1 on pop charts
Updated: Fri, Jul 06 2:29 PM EDT
By Justin Oppelaar
NEW YORK (Variety) - It didn't take Clive Davis long to find his way back to the top of the charts.
The former Arista chief's nascent label, J Records, scored its first No. 1 debut this week as R&B songstress Alicia Keys fought off stiff competition at the top of the album chart.
Keys' "Songs in A Minor" sold 236,000 copies in the week ended Sunday, according to data compiled by SoundScan, just squeaking past the week's other two contenders, Eminem's D12 side project and R&B quartet Jagged Edge.
Keys' performance is one of several milestones for J as it approaches its one-year anniversary in August. O-Town, the teen pop outfit born out of the ABC series "Making the Band," is teetering on the verge of platinum status in the U.S. And last week, J flagship heritage act Luther Vandross logged his best-ever debut at No. 6, with 135,000 copies scanned.
J president and operating chief Charles Goldstuck said the success of "Songs in A Minor" is rooted in a handful of live club dates set up by Davis early in Keys' career, which generated strong word-of-mouth. That response snowballed into the mainstream, thanks to heavy play on both radio and music video channels, he added.
"We've been working hard to set up the project over the last six months, and now we're finally seeing the results of that," Goldstuck said.
D12 debut effort "Devil's Night" (Shady/Interscope) moved 221,000 units in its second week, a relatively modest drop of about 40%. Jagged Edge's third disc, "Jagged Little Thrill" (So So Def/Columbia), enjoyed a surprisingly strong debut, shifting just under 215,000.
Meanwhile, Philly-born hard-core rapper Beanie Sigel also enjoyed a top-five bow this week, dropping onto the charts at five with "The Reason" (Def Jam). The Jay-Z protege's sophomore effort sold 151,000 records on its first week out.
The Def Jam soundtrack to sleeper box office hit "The Fast and The Furious" gained a place this week to creep into the last spot on the top 10. The album has paced the L.A. street-racing picture's unexpected popularity, selling more than 334,000 units in just four weeks on the charts. "Furious" also marks an auspicious start for Interscope/Def Jam's newly unveiled soundtrack division.
Other debuts to place well in the latest rankings were "I'm Already There" (BMG/BNA) by country-pop act Lonestar at No. 9 and rapper Lil' Mo's first album, "Based on a True Story" (Elektra), at 14.
Several artists suffered substantial downturns in sales after making respectable bows just a week or two earlier. Rap-rockers 311 suffered a 58% decline in second-week sales on "From Chaos" (Volcano); Stone Temple Pilots' "Shangri-La Dee Da" (Atlantic) tumbled 57%; and Radiohead's "Amnesiac" (Capitol) slid 32% in its fourth week.
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(7/11/01 2:11 pm) Reply
Re: Another Alicia Article (AAA lol)
Wooo I need to go pick me up "The Fast and the Furious" soundtrack. But anyway...
I can see why J Records is extremely happy about their new artist, Alicia Keys. Baby Doll has some mad skills yo.
Ya know, I think her and 'Tina would make a great duet together.
*~*The Beauty of Me and My People*~*
By Lorna Dee Cervantes
Funny how I never noticed before
but there's beauty in my smooth amber skin
in the rich ginger-chocolate perfection.
It was foolish to think that pale
white, veined skin
was beauty.
My hair is also a wonder--raven black
sexy-against the whiteness of a pillow.
Thick and strong
deep and dark
shiny...
And my dark Spanish/Indian eyes
glossy and clear
a deep mahogany brown,
in dim light they blend in the darkness . . .
And the dark of my eyes
And the dark of my hair
against the amber background of my skin
paint a very pretty picture.
But anyway...
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