| Thursday 30 September 1999 |
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Mariah scores 14th no. 1 single
With 13 No. 1 tracks already under her belt, Mariah Carey adds another, as "Heartbreaker" rockets to the top of The Billboard Hot 100 this week. The cut - the first from Carey's forthcoming album "Rainbow" - jumps 15 slots to achieve the No. 1 spot. The song dislodges TLC's "Unpretty" (LaFace/Arista), which falls to No. 3. Santana's "Smooth" (Arista) moves up a place to No. 2.
As reported here yesterday, Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile" (Nothing/Interscope) debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200, earning the act its first No. 1 album on the chart. The disc moved 229,000 units in its opening week, according to SoundScan. Other big debuts on The Billboard 200 include Barbra Streisand's "A Love Like Ours" (Columbia), at No. 6 (145,500 units sold); Brian McKnight's "Back At One" (Motown/Universal), No. 7 (144,500 units sold); Tori Amos' "To Venus And Back" (Atlantic), No. 12 (112,000 units sold); and Adam Sandler's "Stan And Judy's Kid" (Warner Bros.), No. 16 (81,000 units sold). The latter title sets a new SoundScan-era record for opening-week sales of a comedy disc, beating the Jerky Boys' second-album total of 72,000 copies in 1994. (Billboard Online)
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