Record business in chaos: week three
The only happy person in the record business this week is Norah Jones, the 21-year-old daughter of Indian composer Ravi Shankar. Her debut album will remain at #1 with about 100,000 copies sold for the last seven days.
The rest of the Top 10, however, is floundering. Together, all the CDs by J-Lo, Avril Lavigne, the Dixie Chicks and Eminem didn't add up to a hill of beans - fewer than 730,000 copies once again. The one little bright spot is the soundtrack to the movie Chicago, which is a hit and may wind up saving a couple of executives at Epic Records their jobs. Talk about the Perils of Pauline! (That was an old radio and is no reference to Epic execs with similar names.)
Mariah Carey, by the way, hangs in there with her Charmbracelet album. But Whitney Houston? A month after its official release, Just Whitney... has drifted into the lower, wilder regions of the album chart as if it never existed in the first place. (Fox 411)
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