Shaggy Brings Reggae to the Charts

Shaggy’s “Hotshot” is just that. It’s rare that a reggae-rooted album enjoys charts success these days, but the new disc from the wry, pop-influenced star shoots up to No. 6 on the Southern California chart and, nationally, reaches No. 2. On the singles tally, teen dreamboats O-Town still reign with “Liquid Dreams.”

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 1, Beatles (1) 1 2 Tha Last Meal, Snoop Dogg (4) 2 3 Restless, Xzibit (12) 3 4 Now That’s What I Call Music 5, various (3) 4 5 Lovers Rock, Sade (8) 5 6 Hotshot, Shaggy (2) 10 7 Human Clay, Creed (6) 8 8 Chocolate Starfish . . . , Limp Bizkit (5) 6 9 No Angel, Dido (9) 13 10 Greatest Hits, Lenny Kravitz (10) 11

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Liquid Dreams, O-Town (3) 1 2 He Loves U Not, Dream (1) 2 3 Stronger, Britney Spears (2) 10 4 South Side, Moby (8) 5 5 Dance With Me, Debelah Morgan (6) 6 6 Independent Woman Pt. 1, Destiny’s Child (9) 3 7 Mamacita, Public Announcement (4) 11 8 So in Love With Two, Mikaila (5) 4 9 Case of the Ex, Mya (10) 7 10 Soul Sista, Bilal (17) --

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ended Jan. 7.