Macy Gray a Hit in the Southland
Macy Gray, a critical favorite and now a Grammy nominee for best new artist, is finally showing some commercial momentum, at least in her home base of Los Angeles. The singer’s debut album of classic-mold R&B; is just No. 32 nationally, but it squeaked into the Top 10 on the Southern California album chart last week.
TOP 10 ALBUMS
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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Voodoo, D’Angelo (1) -- 2 Supernatural, Santana (2) 1 3 Dr. Dre 2001, Dr. Dre (3) 2 4 All the Way--A Decade of Song, Celine Dion (4) 3 5 Christina Aguilera, Christina Aguilera (6) 4 6 Next Friday, soundtrack (22) 5 7 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (10) 6 8 Now 3, various artists (9) 7 9 Europop, Eiffel 65 (8) 10 10 On How Life Is, Macy Gray (32) 12
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TOP 10 SINGLES
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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Thank God I Found You, Mariah Carey (1) -- 2 Get It on Tonite, Montell Jordan (2) 2 3 I Knew I Loved You, Savage Garden (3) 1 4 G’d Up, Snoop Dogg Pres. Tha Eastsidaz (12) 3 5 All the Small Things, Blink-182 (6) 7 6 Maria Maria, Santana (5) -- 7 Shake Your Bon-Bon, Ricky Martin (7) 9 8 What a Girl Wants, Christina Aguilera (8) 4 9 Hot Boyz, Missy Elliott (4) 6 10 You Can Do It/Money Stretch, Ice Cube and Lil’ Zane (20) 5
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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Jan. 30
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