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Britney Scores Second Best Soundscan Week

By Geoff Mayfield, L.A.
Publication: Billboard
Date: Wednesday, May 24 2000
With an opening week of 1.3 million units, Britney Spears' album, "Oops! ... I Did It Again," scored the second-largest seven-day sales totals in SoundScan history. "Oops" trails only 'N Sync's "No Strings Attached," which sold 2.4 million units during its first week. The album is set to debut tomorrow

(May 25) at No. 1 on The Billboard 200.


With Backstreet Boys' "Millennium" in third, having sold 1.13 million units in its first week a year ago, Jive Records now owns the three largest sales weeks since Billboard adopted SoundScan data in 1991.

Spears' debut held Pearl Jam's "Binaural" (Epic) at a No. 2 premiere, on the strength of 226,000 copies sold. Big Tymers' "I Got That Work" (Universal) rolls in at No. 3, having sold 187,000 units and knocking "No String Attached" to No. 4. Whitney Houston's Arista "Greatest Hits" collection opens at No. 5, with 158,000 copies sold. In another notable debut, Phish's "Farmhouse" (Elektra) opens at No. 12, the second-highest album chart placement ever for the Vermont jam band.

Full chart information will be released tomorrow.

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