Billie Piper and Whitney Houston became the queens of the U.K. charts this weekend, as the British teenage pop vocalist and U.S. R&B diva respectively raced to No. 1 on the singles and album bestseller lists.
Piper's "Day & Night" (Innocent/Virgin) unseated Madison Avenue's "Don't Call Me Baby" (on Virgin's VC Recordings label) to go straight to the top of the singles survey. The track is the 17-year-old singer's third No. 1, following 1998's "Because We Want To" and "Girlfriend."
Also arriving in the top 10 were DJ Luck and MC Neat at No. 5 with a Stevie Wonder update on "Masterblaster 2000" (Red Rose), the follow-up to their long-running hit "A Little Bit Of Luck," and Southside Spinners at No. 9 with "Lovestruck" (AM:PM).
Houston's "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" (Arista) enjoyed strong Friday and Saturday sales to pull ahead of the album that had been leading the race all week, Britney Spears' "Oops!...I Did It Again" (Jive), which ultimately had to settle for a No. 2 debut.
The most active album top 10 in several weeks also saw debuts by Pearl Jam, with "Binaural" (Epic) at No. 5; Paul Simon, with the Warner Bros. compilation "Shining Like A National Guitar" at No. 6; and the Bluetones with their third album "Science & Nature" (Mercury) at No. 7.
Tom Jones and Mousse T's top-three debut in the U.K. last week with the European smash "Sex Bomb" (on Gut locally and V2 internationally) sent the track rebounding from 16-2 on Music & Media's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles tally. But Spears held tough at No. 1 with the title track from the "Oops" set.
Finnish act Bomfunk MC's jumped 13-5 with "Freestyler" (Epidrome/Sony), while the Madison Avenue single arrived at No. 9; the track is also a hit in Ireland and Greece, in addition to its success in the U.K.
Santana's "Supernatural" (Arista) continues its reign on the European Top 100 Albums chart, which found Jeff Buckley enterting at No. 9 with "Mystery White Boy: Live 1995-1996" (Columbia). Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Living In The Present Future" (Diesel/Polydor) jumped impressively 75-16; it's currently No. 3 in his native Sweden and No. 10 in France.
Piper's "Day & Night" (Innocent/Virgin) unseated Madison Avenue's "Don't Call Me Baby" (on Virgin's VC Recordings label) to go straight to the top of the singles survey. The track is the 17-year-old singer's third No. 1, following 1998's "Because We Want To" and "Girlfriend."
Also arriving in the top 10 were DJ Luck and MC Neat at No. 5 with a Stevie Wonder update on "Masterblaster 2000" (Red Rose), the follow-up to their long-running hit "A Little Bit Of Luck," and Southside Spinners at No. 9 with "Lovestruck" (AM:PM).
Houston's "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" (Arista) enjoyed strong Friday and Saturday sales to pull ahead of the album that had been leading the race all week, Britney Spears' "Oops!...I Did It Again" (Jive), which ultimately had to settle for a No. 2 debut.
The most active album top 10 in several weeks also saw debuts by Pearl Jam, with "Binaural" (Epic) at No. 5; Paul Simon, with the Warner Bros. compilation "Shining Like A National Guitar" at No. 6; and the Bluetones with their third album "Science & Nature" (Mercury) at No. 7.
Tom Jones and Mousse T's top-three debut in the U.K. last week with the European smash "Sex Bomb" (on Gut locally and V2 internationally) sent the track rebounding from 16-2 on Music & Media's Eurochart Hot 100 Singles tally. But Spears held tough at No. 1 with the title track from the "Oops" set.
Finnish act Bomfunk MC's jumped 13-5 with "Freestyler" (Epidrome/Sony), while the Madison Avenue single arrived at No. 9; the track is also a hit in Ireland and Greece, in addition to its success in the U.K.
Santana's "Supernatural" (Arista) continues its reign on the European Top 100 Albums chart, which found Jeff Buckley enterting at No. 9 with "Mystery White Boy: Live 1995-1996" (Columbia). Eagle-Eye Cherry's "Living In The Present Future" (Diesel/Polydor) jumped impressively 75-16; it's currently No. 3 in his native Sweden and No. 10 in France.
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