The #3 spot on the Billboard 200 albums chart is about as good as

it gets these days if you're not the Backstreet Boys or Ricky Martin,

and singer/songwriter and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan claimed

that position this week with her new live album, Mirrorball.

Mirrorball, on which McLachlan reprises such hits as "Building a

Mystery" (RealAudio

excerpt) and "Possession," sold 221,339 copies in the week ending

Sunday, edging out Wild Wild West: Music Inspired by the Motion

Picture, which also topped the 200,000 mark in its first week in

stores, according to sales tracker SoundScan.

The hip-hop heavy soundtrack, which wound up at #4, features the single

"Wild Wild West" by the movie's star, Will Smith, alongside tracks by

Slick Rick, MC Lyte and the duo of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

Meanwhile, the Backstreet Boys' Millennium and Martin's Ricky

Martin continued to reign at #1 and #2, respectively, for a fifth

straight week, with each selling more than 300,000 copies; the Backstreet

Boys' album, which features "I Want It That Way" (RealAudio

excerpt), has now sold more than 2.7 million copies in that time.

But Martin's English-language debut is catching up on the chart, having

sold only 25,000 fewer copies than did Millennium last week.

The McLachlan album sold 120 copies at the Tower Records near the campus

of the University of Washington in Seattle, according to Fred Kelly, an

employee there. "She's a strong college-aged artist," Kelly said. "She

sold well here in the past."

The week's next-highest debut came from rapper Ma$e, who announced in

the spring that he would retire from music after promoting his second

album. That album, Double Up, sold just over 100,000 copies last

week and hit the chart at #11.

No Boundaries: A Benefit Album for the Kosovo Refugees, buoyed by

Pearl Jam's hit single "Last Kiss" (RealAudio

excerpt), debuted at #18, and Santana's Supernatural --

on which the veteran Latin American rock band gets help from Lauryn Hill,

Wyclef Jean, Dave Matthews, Everlast and Eric Clapton -- entered at #19.

"Lauryn Hill and Everlast and Dave Matthews, all of us want the same

thing," bandleader Carlos Santana said recently. "We want to help [sculpt]

a new dimension for this planet."

Pearl Jam's "Last Kiss" -- a cover of a 1964 hit by J. Frank Wilson and

the Cavaliers -- is the #2 single in the country, behind Jennifer Lopez's

"If You Had My Love." It originally appeared on a Pearl Jam fan-club

single in December.

"We put it on the Kosovo record mainly to get the ball rolling," bassist

Jeff Ament recently said. "We needed a flagship song for the record. The

song was getting airplay at the time, so it made sense to make it

available, for a worthy cause."

Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, meanwhile, entered the chart at #42

with her solo debut, Schizophonic, with sales of just under 40,000.

It features the single "Look at Me" (RealAudio

excerpt). Old-school rapper Heavy D's Heavy came in at

#60. And This or That, a hip-hop compilation put together by

popular Los Angeles radio DJs Sway and King Tech, debuted at #107.

The LP features Eminem, Guru, RZA and others.

Wild Wild West: Music Inspired by the Motion Picture was one of

three soundtracks in the top 10 this week. The soundtrack to "Austin

Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me," featuring Madonna's "Beautiful Stranger"

and new songs and covers by Lenny Kravitz, R.E.M. and others, moved up

three spots to #5. The Phil Collins-laced soundtrack to the Walt Disney

animated movie "Tarzan" jumped from #30 to #10. "Tarzan" was the

top-grossing film in the United States last week.

Last week's highest debut, funk-rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers'

Californication, dropped from #3 to #7, while rapper Ja Rule's

Venni Vetti Vecci, which held the #3 spot two weeks ago, is now

at #13.

Rounding out the top 10 were pop singer Britney Spears'

... Baby One More Time at #6; country singer Shania

Twain's Come On Over at #8; and rap-rocker Kid Rock's Devil

Without a Cause at #9.

At the bottom of the chart, Hole's Celebrity Skin appears ready

to leave the top 200, as the 9-month-old album slipped from #195 to #198.