A week after it was nominated for 11 Grammy Awards, Santana's multiplatinum

comeback album, Supernatural, will shoot back to the top of the

Billboard 200 albums chart, according to sales figures released

Wednesday (Jan. 12) by SoundScan.

In a week in which most albums on the chart, including every other album

in the top 25, lost sales from the week before, Supernatural sold

more than 200,000 copies in the week ending Sunday, an increase of 25,000

copies over the previous week. Early in the week it was nominated for the

Grammy for Album of the Year, and the single "Smooth"

(RealAudio

excerpt) was nominated for Record and Single of the Year.

Also this week, the 1998 album The Best of Santana, containing

such '70s hits as "Evil Ways" and "Oye Como Va," will leap from off the

chart to #153.

The top two albums on last week's chart, Jay-Z's Vol. 3 ... Life and

Times of S. Carter and DMX's ... And Then There Was

X, will fall to #2 and #3, respectively.

The rest of the top 10 are: pop singer Celine Dion's All the Way: A Decade

of Song (#4); the hits compilation Now That's What I Call Music 3

(#5); teen pop singer Christina Aguilera's self-titled debut (#6);

rapper/producer Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre 2001 (#7); the late Tupac Shakur

and his group the Outlawz's Still I Rise (#8); the Backstreet Boys'

Millennium (#9); and rapper Kid Rock's Devil Without a Cause

(#10).

Supernatural spent three weeks atop the chart in October and November,

but was down to #8 last week, based on sales the week before the Grammy

nominations were announced. "Smooth," which features Matchbox 20 singer

Rob Thomas, was the #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 for three

months until last week, when it was replaced by Aguilera's "What a Girl

Wants" (RealAudio

excerpt).

"This whole year is like a snowball rolling down and getting bigger and

bigger," Aguilera, 19, said at a Los Angeles press conference announcing

the Grammy nominations last week. She was nominated for Best New Artist,

and "Genie in a Bottle" earned her a nod for Best Female Pop Vocal

Performance. Nonetheless, Christina Aguilera saw a sales drop-off

of nearly 100,000 copies last week and will slip two spots on the chart.

The soundtrack to the Oliver Stone football movie "Any Given Sunday,"

featuring hip-hop songs by Capone-N-Noreaga, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott,

Kid Rock and LL Cool J along with "Be a Man" by rockers Hole, will be the

week's highest debut, at #28.

Also debuting this week will be the soundtracks to the acclaimed HBO series

"The Sopranos" and the movie "Magnolia." The "Sopranos" soundtrack, entering

at #126, includes classic-rock songs from Bruce Springsteen, Cream, Bob

Dylan and others, along with the show's theme song, "Woke Up This Morning"

(RealAudio

excerpt), by A3. Singer/songwriter Aimee Mann, who fronted the

'80s band 'Til Tuesday, wrote and performed most of the songs on the

"Magnolia" soundtrack (#147), which also features two '70s rock hits by

Supertramp.

R&B singer Kelis, known for singing the hook to Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Got

Your Money," will enter the chart at #149 with her debut album,

Kaleidoscope. The hip-hop production duo the Neptunes wrote and

produced the disc, which includes the breakup manifesto "Caught Out There."

Jazz singer Diana Krall's When I Look in Your Eyes, which received

a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year, will re-enter the chart this

week at #164. The album spent several weeks on the bottom end of the chart

last summer.

Europop, by Eiffel 65, an Italian dance-pop trio, will jump from

#23 to #12, continuing a rapid, two-month-long climb up the chart. Their

single "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" (RealAudio

excerpt), a club track with echoing, distant vocals, funk bass

and whirling piano, is at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Dru Hill singer Sisqo also is moving up the chart with his solo debut,

Enter the Dragon, an album of slow jams and soulful R&B tunes. This

week it moves from #29 to #19.