Shania Twain takes over the No1!

NEW YORK (Top 40 Charts) - In one of the last weeks for the big-time album debuts on the charts this year, Shania Twain, the latest Now That's What I Call Music collection, Ja Rule, Matchbox Twenty, and Audioslave all entered in the top 10 of the latest US Albums chart. It didn't take long for Shania Twain to climb up the album chart - her new disc, "Up!" debuted at No. 1.

Twain proved biggest of all, with more than 874,000 copies of her new album, Up!, being sold, according to sources, for the second-best debut of the year behind Eminem's The Eminem Show. Up! is the follow-up to her blockbuster 1997 album, Come On Over, and has been released in both pop and country versions.

The Now various-artists franchise continues to excel with its latest, Vol. 11, featuring hits from Nelly, Creed, No Doubt, and Shakira. The release checks in at Number Two followed by the Eminem-related soundtrack to 8 Mile.

That nearly doubles the first-week sales of another country star who's enjoyed major crossover success, Faith Hill , whose "Cry" debuted at No. 1 a month ago with about 472,000 copies sold.

"Up!" is composed of two discs, with the same songs in the same order on both; the "red" disc contains the pop-rock versions, while the "green" disc holds the country-tinged versions.

Debuting at No. 2 was the 11th volume of the "Now That's What I Call Music!" series. The latest compilation, which includes Nelly's ubiquitous "Hot in Herre" and songs from Coldplay, Norah Jones , Eve and Creed, sold about 316,000 copies.

And Audioslave's self-titled debut entered the chart at No. 7, selling 162,000 copies. The band features members of Rage Against the Machine and former Soundgarden lead singer Chris Cornell, who stepped in when Rage frontman Zack de la Rocha left the band two years ago.

Rounding out the top 10 are Missy Elliott's Under Construction, Avril Lavigne's Let Go, and Justin Timberlake's Justified.

Other debuts of note this week include:
- Toni Braxton's More Than A Woman, at No 13,
- Mudvayne's The End Of All Things To Come, at No 17, and
- Brainwashed, the posthumous release from George Harrison, at No 18.