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Santana's Supernatural Still Top U.S. Seller

Eurythmics, 98 Degrees and Woodstock live LP debut high.

Santana's first #1 album in nearly 30 years will remain atop the

Billboard 200 albums chart for a second straight week, while another

comeback album, by the Eurythmics, makes a high debut.

Santana's collaborative album Supernatural, on which the veteran

Latin rock band worked with Dave Matthews, Lauryn Hill, Everlast, Wyclef

Jean, Eric Clapton and Matchbox 20 singer Rob Thomas, sold 183,535 copies

the week ending Sunday, according to sales figures released Wednesday

(Oct. 27) by SoundScan. That was enough to hold off the Backstreet Boys'

Millennium — a former #1 — which climbed back up a spot

to #2.

The week's highest debut will come from reunited pop duo the Eurythmics,

whose first album in a decade, Peace, will come in at #25, according

to SoundScan data.

The rest of this week's top 10: rock band Creed's Human Clay (#3);

German dance-pop singer Lou Bega's A Little Bit of Mambo (#4);

teen pop singer Britney Spears' ... Baby One More Time

(#5); a resurgent Limp Bizkit's Significant Other (#6); rapper

Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause (#7); pop singer Christina Aguilera's

self-titled debut (#8); New Orleans rapper Juvenile's 400 Degreez

(#9); and soul singer Brian McKnight's Back at One (#10).

Santana's single "Smooth" (RealAudio

excerpt), featuring Thomas, is the #1 song on the Billboard

Hot 100. Carlos Santana, known for his salsa- and jazz-laced guitar solos,

and his band haven't enjoyed this kind of success since 1970 and 1971,

when their albums Abraxas and Santana III, respectively,

reached #1.

"[Santana] chose to collaborate with a lot of good musicians, and the

result shows," Ronda Betts, music director of the Chico, Calif., rock

station KZAP-FM said last week.

The CD has been certified triple platinum, recognizing shipments of 3

million copies.

On Peace, the Eurythmics — singer Annie Lennox and guitarist

Dave Stewart — offer more of the melodic synth-pop that brought them

fame in the early 1980s. They even quote the 1983 chart-topping single

"Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" on the new disc's first single,

"Seventeen Again": "Sweet dreams are made of this/ Who am I to disagree/

I travel the world and the seven seas/ Everybody's looking for something."

Woodstock 99, a two-CD compilation of music from this summer's

troubled festival, which ended in a riot, will debut at #34. It includes

the Red Hot Chili Peppers' version of Jimi Hendrix's "Fire" (RealAudio

excerpt of live version), which ended the Peppers' festival-closing set as bonfires burned

out of control. Other acts on the LP include rappers DMX and the Roots

and the rock band Sevendust.

The week's other debuts will include pop group 98 Degrees' holiday album

This Christmas (#28); rapper Pharoahe Monch's Internal Affairs,

featuring the frenetic radio hit "Simon Says" (RealAudio

excerpt) (#41) and progressive rock band Primus' Antipop

(#44).

Like Supernatural, the Primus album is heavy on collaborations.

Guitarists Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Kirk Hammett of

Metallica are among the guests.

"Musically, there's some stuff for the trippers," Primus singer/bassist

Les Claypool said. "But there's also this aggressive element, so ... it's

like acid-metal or something. Groove-oriented acid-metal."

Wu-Tang Clan rapper U-God's solo debut, Golden Arms Redemption,

will hit the chart at #58, making him the latest Wu-Tanger to make a

relatively modest chart appearance. The full group's 1997 album, Wu-Tang

Forever, was a chart-topper. But in the past few months, Genius/GZA's

Beneath the Surface has peaked at #9, Ol' Dirty Bastard's N***a

Please at #10 and Inspectah Deck's Uncontrolled Substance at

#19.

Swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's second album, This Beautiful Life,

with their take on "Ol' McDonald," will bow at #93, and former Roxy Music

frontman Bryan Ferry's As Time Goes By, with covers of such vintage

songs as "I'm in the Mood for Love" and "Falling in Love Again," will

come in at #195.

Juvenile, whose "Back That Azz Up" is a hip-hop radio hit, and McKnight

return to this week's top 10, while last week's highest debut, 311's

Soundsystem, and rappers Method Man and Redman's Black Out!

drop out. In the past two weeks, Limp Bizkit's album, which hit #1 this

summer, will have jumped from #11 to #8 to #6.

Dennis Elinski, the rock buyer at Tower Records in Austin, Texas, said

Limp Bizkit probably owe their recent sales bump to the Family Values

tour, which they're headlining. The outing also includes Method Man,

Redman and industrial rock band Filter.

"The tour is helping sales. They're coming here this weekend," Elinski

said.

(SonicNet's Will Comerford contributed to this report.)

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