Canadian Chart News

By: ChartAttack.com Staff

Ah, the wonderful world of pop music. Pumping out plastic idol after plastic idol, all the while seducing us with their wily beats and polished bodies and faces.

It seems to have worked yet again this past week as the top three debuts fall into that seducing category. The Backstreet Boys may be getting old and, like, so 1997, but their Greatest Hits Chapter 1 sits comfortably atop the chart at #1. Yeah, they've only released three records, but just count how many goddamn hit singles they have and it's no surprise they've released a Greatest Hits album.

Right behind them is the tanned spawn of the supreme, and tanned as well, Latin lover, Julio Iglesias. Yes, his youngest son Enrique comes in at #2 with Escape. Armed with a video for "Hero" that has him rubbing money all over Jennifer Love Hewitt's boobs (ouch! Paper cuts!), this record was a guaranteed big seller. And after a whole lot of waiting, (anxiously or not) the gloved one Michael Jackson, comes in at #3 with Invincible. Is it good? Is it bad? Who cares. He's a tabloid's wet dream — and his latest quirk? He's allegedly taking Cipro, the Anti-Anthrax drug, and testing his kids for Anthrax too. Way to go, Wacko Jacko.

Anyhow, back to who's in the #4 spot. The crazy Canadian mofo Matthew Good and Co. sit at that spot with their album The Audio Of Being. Hey, at least a rock record made it into the Top Five — and it's Canadian to boot. Now, why don't you all start picking up the November issue of Chart with Matt on the cover — that might give you more inspiration to buy the solid new record! Hint, hint...

The other Canadian who enters the chart in a high position is the endlessly entertaining Jann Arden whose "best of" Greatest Hurts debuts at #13. But Lenny Kravitz, better known as Romeo Blue in his early days, debuts at an even better spot, #9, on the strength of the killer single "Dig In." Well, that and the fact that he's friggin' hot.

There are a whole lot of droppers on the chart, so we'll do our best to include as many relevant ones as possible. Last week's #1 on Soundscan, DMX, drops to a disappointing #10, Gavin Rossdale's loveliness can't help his band's successes as Bush's Golden State drops 26 spots to #54, and Sloan's Pretty Together is still sinking, like some kind of a boat, faster and faster to #55 after three weeks.

The one record to look out for in the next couple of weeks: The Strokes' Is This It. They cracked the Top 100 when they debuted four weeks ago, but they keep getting stronger and stronger each week in. They now sit at #68. Could the hype machine finally be hypnotizing all of you feeble-minded folks?