P. Diddy, Cam'ron, Weezer & Moby Have Big Album Debuts

05/22/2002 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Mark Armstrong

(5/22/02, 3 p.m. ET) -- Sean "P. Diddy" Combs's Bad Boy/Arista Records remix album, P. Diddy & Bad Boy Records Present...We Invented The Remix, debuts at Number One on the Billboard 200 albums chart following first-week sales of nearly 256,000 copies. P. Diddy makes Soundscan history with the highest scan ever for a remix album, and as the first multi-artist remix collection to debut in the top spot.

Earlier this year, Jennifer Lopez's remix album, J To Tha L-O: The Remixes, sold more than 156,000 copies in the week following its February 13 release, and was the first remix album to debut at Number One on the Billboard 200.

Cam'ron's Come Home With Me premieres right behind P. Diddy at Number Two this week after selling some 226,000 albums. Come Home With Me is the third solo album from the Harlem-based rapper--Cam'ron released his debut album, Confessions Of Fire, in 1998, and he released the follow-up, S.D.E. (Sports, Drugs & Entertainment), in 2000.

Los Angeles-based quartet Weezer also makes a big debut with Maladroit landing at Number Three on sales of almost 152,000 copies, while Moby's 18 enters at Number Four on sales of more than 126,000 copies.

A week crowded with strong album debuts also sees Musiq's Juslisen drop from Number One to Number Five this week. Meanwhile, Vapor Trails, Rush's first album of all-new material in more than five years, debuts at Number Six after moving nearly 108,000 units.

Rounding out the top 10 are R&B singer Ashanti's self-titled debut at Number Seven, Celine Dion's A New Day Has Come at Number Eight, Now That's What I Call Music! Volume 9 at Number Nine, and Sheryl Crow's latest studio album, C'mon C'mon, at Number 10.

-- Jason Gelman, New York

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