KROQ Holiday Album Is Tops in Local Sales

One sure sign of the holiday season in Southern California is a charity album overseen by KROQ’s Kevin & Bean at the top of the local chart. As usual, this year’s edition, which features comedy bits plus songs by Tori Amos, above, Moby, Blink-182 and others, doesn’t qualify for the Billboard magazine album chart because it’s sold through just one retailer. You can pencil it in yourself, though--its sales of about 40,000 would put it in about No. 68 on that chart.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Kevin & Bean’s Last Christmas, various artists (--) -- 2 Dr. Dre 2001, Dr. Dre (6) 1 3 Supernatural, Santana (4) 3 4 All the Way . . ., Celine Dion (1) 2 5 Rainbow, Mariah Carey (12) 6 6 Millennium, Backstreet Boys (2) 10 7 . . . Baby One More Time, Britney Spears (3) 9 8 Issues, Korn (13) 5 9 S&M;, Metallica & San Francisco Symphony (11) 4 10 Faith: A Holiday Album, Kenny G (8) 15

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 I Wanna Love You Forever, Jessica Simpson (1) 1 2 You Can Do It, Ice Cube (14) 2 3 Stay the Night, IMX (12) 4 4 Smooth, Santana (5) 3 5 Caught Out There, Kelis (19) 10 6 I Need to Know, Marc Anthony (13) 6 7 Girl on TV, LFO (3) 5 8 You Know What’s Up, Donell Jones (8) 9 9 4 5 6, Sole (7) 11 10 Don’t Say You Love Me, M2M (9) 8

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Dec. 5