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Second Ruff Ryders LP Tops New Pop Releases

Also hitting stores Tuesday is a live double-CD set from Jimmy Page, Black Crowes.

The Ruff Ryders' Ryde or Die Vol. 2 heads the short list of new pop albums hitting stores Tuesday.

DMX, the LOX, Eve and Drag-On, who all contributed to last year's platinum-selling Vol. 1, will return for the new album. Top-selling rappers Dr. Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dogg all make appearances on the record, as do Juvenile, Busta Rhymes, Trick Daddy, Method Man and Redman.

Eve, whose hit song "What You Want" highlighted last year's album, performs the new album's first single, "Got It All," with the help of rising star Jadakiss.

Live at the Greek, documenting former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page's live collaboration with the Black Crowes, is also due Tuesday.

The album has been available as a CD, or downloadable track by track, at musicmaker.com since February. The enhanced double-disc version hitting stores Tuesday, on TVT Records, includes the song "Mellow Down Easy," which was not on the musicmaker.com version, as well as video footage.

The collection of 20 songs, recorded Oct. 18–19 of

last year during shows at Los Angeles' Greek Theatre, includes such

Zeppelin classics as "Whole Lotta Love" and "Heartbreaker."

Live at the Greek broke ground as an Internet release, selling more songs via download than any previous release, according to musicmaker.com. It was also the first Internet-only album to break a song onto mainstream radio, with "What Is and Never Should Be" (RealAudio excerpt) reaching #17 on the Radio & Records rock airplay chart.

Traditional retail outlets, however, do not expect sales of the disc to be hampered by its previous online availability. "[The Internet's] got so much promise to it, but the effect on sales is still going to be negligible," said Larry King, a music buyer for Tower Records in Los Angeles, who ordered "several hundred" copies of the LP. "If anything, the Internet puts a little buzz out there."

The soundtrack for the film "Scary Movie," which opens Friday, also will hit stores Tuesday. The collection of rock and rap hits, picked out by filmmakers the Wayans brothers, includes Silverchair's "Punk Song #2," the Unband's "Everybody Wants You," and Public Enemy's "What What."

Another collection, MTV's The Real World — New Orleans, includes songs picked by "Real World" cast members, such as Toad the Wet Sprocket's "All I Want," Paul Simon's "The Obvious Child" (RealAudio excerpt) and Collective Soul's "When the Water Falls." (Sonicnet.com's parent company, Viacom, also owns MTV.)

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