Soul-pop trio TLC are back on top of the Billboard 200 albums chart with

Fanmail, a month after being booted out of the spot by pop singer Britney

Spears.

Fanmail surpassed rapper Nas' I Am, which had been #1 for the

previous two weeks, to regain the #1 position the Atlanta trio had held for four

weeks earlier this year.

The album, TLC's third, sold 180,199 copies for the week ending Sunday,

according to album sales tracker SoundScan. It contains the single

"No Scrubs" (RealAudio excerpt) -- currently #1 on the Billboard Hot

100 singles chart -- and has sold more than 1.5 million copies in its nine weeks

in stores.

Nas' album is approaching sales of 1 million, according to SoundScan figures,

but its sales have steadily slipped. The album contains such songs as "Hate Me

Now" and "Nas Is Like" (RealAudio excerpt).

The week's highest debut was from New Orleans rapper B.G., whose third album,

Chopper City in the Ghetto, entered the chart at #9. The album contains

cameos by Cash Money labelmate Juvenile.

Other notable debuts included Wu-Tang Clan offshoot Wu Syndicate at #64 with

Syndicate, rapper Case at #33 with Personal Conversation and "Ally

McBeal" singer Vonda Shepard at #79 with her fourth album, By 7:30.

And debuting at #189, with one-week sales of 6,167, was Adios, the final

album by industrial rockers KMFDM. The album made news after the siege that left

15 people dead at a Littleton, Colo., high school last Tuesday. The alleged

killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were said to be fans of the band, and

Harris reportedly had quoted their song, "Son of a Gun," on his

America Online website.

"We are sick and appalled, as is the rest of the nation, by what took place in

Colorado yesterday," KMFDM singer Sascha Konietzko said in a written statement

last week. The band broke up earlier this year.

Country singer Shania Twain continued moving back toward the top of the chart

with her year-and-a-half-old album Come On Over, which was certified

earlier this month for shipments of 10 million copies. The album, which features

the current pop hit "That Don't Impress Me Much," moved up a spot to #3.

The success of "That Don't Impress Me Much" on top 40 radio and MTV has helped

Twain grow her fanbase. Jamie Andrews, a shift manager at Spec's, a Miami record

store, said Come On Over is among the top sellers in a store that mainly

caters to a hip-hop audience.

"She does pretty well in here, which is pretty good for an urban store," Andrews

said.

Pop veteran Cher moved up one spot to #4 with Believe. She's scheduled to

begin a North American tour this June.

As the summer movie season approaches, two soundtracks remain near the top of

the chart.

The soundtracks to the science-fiction film "The Matrix" and to the Eddie

Murphy-Martin Lawrence prison movie "Life" are at #8 and #11 this week,

respectively. The two are musical opposites: "The Matrix" features rock bands

Marilyn Manson and Rage Against the Machine while "Life" features R&B/hip-hop

songwriters R. Kelly and Wyclef Jean.

Kid Rock performs a hybrid of all those styles, and his Devil Without a

Cause -- certified gold this week for shipments of a half-million copies --

moved up 10 places to #26.

Also making a big move was the rock band Lit, thanks to the modern-rock hit "My

Own Worst Enemy." Their A Place in the Sun jumped from #98 to #73.

Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff said recently that the Anaheim, Calif., band's sound

is inspired by the arena bands of rock's past. "That's all we knew growing up,"

Popoff said. "It was like, 'So-and-so is coming to town in three weeks.' We

didn't go to clubs. We went to the [Great Western] Forum."

A couple of veteran rockers were not so fortunate. Echo, by Tom Petty and

the Heartbreakers, slipped from #10 to #20 in its second week on store shelves,

while Bruce Springsteen's 18 Tracks, a one-disc sampler of the 1998 box

set Tracks, fell from #64 to #100.

Big-beat electronica act the Lo Fidelity Allstars made the chart for the first

time with How to Operate With a Blown Mind, which claimed the #196 spot

three months after its release. The album includes the British hit

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excerpt).

Rounding out the top 10 were Spears at #5 with ...Baby One More Time,

rapper Eminem at #6 with The Slim Shady LP, punk-rockers the Offspring at

#7 with Americana and Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli at #10 with

Sogno.