THE CHART

‘8 MILE’ HIGH

Technically, the 8 Mile soundtrack isn’t an Eminem album, since Slim Shady appears on only four songs. But rest assured, it wasn’t tracks by Obie Trice and 50 Cent that sent 702,000 hip-hop heads to record stores this week, giving the disc a No. 1 debut. The compilation finished miles ahead of Christina Aguilera’s Stripped, which pulled in 330,000 ”Dirrty”-minded fans, and Nirvana’s hits collection, which lured 234,000 ’90s nostalgia hounds. New albums from country’s not-so-little Rascal Flatts and Tori ”Scarlet” Amos also finished in the top 10, while Bone Thugs -N- Harmony and Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz showed up to represent Nos. 12 and 15, respectively.

POP ALBUMS

LAST WEEKS ON WEEK CHART

1 — VARIOUS ARTISTS 8 Mile soundtrack, Shady/Interscope 1 2 — CHRISTINA AGUILERA Stripped, RCA 1 3 — NIRVANA Nirvana, Geffen 1 4 1 SANTANA Shaman, Arista 2 5 — RASCAL FLATTS Melt, Lyric Street 1 6 2 FAITH HILL Cry, Warner Bros. 3 7 — TORI AMOS Scarlet’s Walk, Epic 1 8 7 EMINEM The Eminem Show, Aftermath/Interscope 24 9 8 AVRIL LAVIGNE Let Go, Arista 22 10 6 DIXIE CHICKS Home, Open Wide/Monument/Columbia 10 11 5 ELVIS PRESLEY 30 #1 Hits, RCA 6 12 — BONE THUGS -N- HARMONY Thug World Order, Ruthless/Epic 1 13 10 NELLY Nellyville, Universal 19 14 9 ROLLING STONES Forty Licks, Virgin 5 15 — LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ Kings of Crunk, TVT 1

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