Stone Temple Pilots and 311 repped for rock putting their Shangri-La Dee Da and From Chaos just inside the Top Ten. Luther Vandross’ self-titled return to form was the surprise contender selling 135,386 copies and just edging out last summer’s R&B phenom, Sisqo, whose Return of Dragon landed at Number Eight. Theirs is a hearty figure, yet considerably smaller than the 1.8 million copies of The Marshall Mathers LP that Eminem scanned last year.ĭevil’s Night led a charge of new releases seizing the charts, with five newcomers into the Top Ten, only the second time so many rookies have done so this year. D12‘s Devil’s Night scared up 371,881 copies in its first week of sales, according to SoundScan, to debut at Number One.
