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Garth Brooks LP Tops Tupac Double-Album

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Published · reached Usenet December 4, 1997

Garth Brooks LP Tops Tupac Double-Album, 12/4/97

"Garth Brooks' Sevens easily topped the Billboard album charts for the week ending Nov. 30, with SoundScan reporting sales of 896,932 for the long-awaited CD. His closest competition, the posthumous collection from slain rap star Tupac Shakur entitled R U Still Down? (Remember Me), moved a respectable 549,000 copies; a sales figure which would have been enough to land the two-CD collection at #1 nearly any other week. Sevens is now the second-highest first-week seller since SoundScan started collating the charts "

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This story circulated on the newsgroups rec.music.hip-hop and alt.rap and reached the archive on December 4, 1997. It is reproduced as posted — headlines, typos and all. Original source, as credited in the post: Addicted To Noise.