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CHART COMMENTARY by ALAN JONES
Jane McDonald continues to reap the rewards from her prominence in the BBC documentary series The Cruise, spending a third week atop the listings with her self-titled debut album. It sold a further 29,000 copies last week, to bring its cumulative sales to more than 100,000. That's three times as many as the next biggest seller by a new British female artist this year - Billie Myers' Growing Pains having sold 34,000 - though the likelihood of McDonald winning a Brit award are probably remote.
On a very quiet week, the chart's highest new entry comes from Roadrunner band Fear Factory, who debut at number 20 with Obsolete. The Los Angeles - based band have yet to chart in America but previously reached number 27 in the UK with their 1995 album Demanufacture, which has sold almost 40,000 copies so far. Obsolete sold a little over 7,000 last week.
Meanwhile two of the high profile new entries to the US album chart this week make much quieter UK debuts. Jermaine Dupri's Life In 1472 and the Wu-Tang Killa Bees debut at three and four in the States but at 106 and 119 in...