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March 13, 2001

NARM Recognizes Best Selling Recordings Of The Year

Frampton Receives Special Best Seller Award

The National Association Of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) announced the winners of its 2000-2001 Best Seller Awards at a luncheon during the organization’s 43^rd Annual Convention in Orlando on Tuesday, March 13. It also presented a special award to singer/songwriter Peter Frampton, whose album, Frampton Comes Alive, was recognized as the Best Selling Live Recording Of All Time.

Best Seller winners are based on SoundScan figures for the period between January 22, 2000, and February 10, 2001. SoundScan currently tracks, at the point-of-sale, more than 85% of all the recordings sold in the United States from more than 18,000 retail locations.

The winners are:

Best Selling R&B Recording

The Marshall Mathers LP—Eminem—Web/Aftermath/Interscope

Best Selling Soundtrack

Mission Impossible 2 (M-I 2)—Hollywood

Best Selling Latin Recording

Buena Vista Social Club—Buena Vista Social Club—World Circuit/Nonesuch/AG

Best Selling Music Video

Live At Madison Square Garden—‘N Sync—Jive/Zomba Video

Best Selling Gospel Recording

Mountain High…Valley Low—Yolanda Adams—Elektra/EEG

Best Selling Children’s Recording

Radio Disney Kids Jams Vol. 2—Various Artists—Walt Disney

Best Selling Comedy Recording

Running With Scissors–
Weird Al Yankovic—Way Moby/Volcano

Best Selling Rap Recording

The Marshall Mathers LP—Eminem—Web/Aftermath/Interscope

Best Selling New Artist

The Better Life—3 Doors Down—Republic/Universal

Best Selling Catalog Recording

Devil Without A Cause—Kid Rock—Lava/Atlantic

Best Selling Country Recording

Fly—Dixie Chicks—Monument/Sony Nashville

Best Selling Chartmaker Recording

(Remained on charts during the
entire 52 weeks of Award sales period)

Human Clay—Creed—Wind-Up

Best Selling Classical Recording

Dream A Dream—Charlotte Church—Sony Classical

Best Selling Contemporary
Christian Recording

Mountain High…Valley Low—Yolanda Adams—Elektra/EEG

Best Selling Jazz Recording

When I Look In Your Eyes—Diana Krall—Verve/VG

Best Selling Holiday Recording

Dream A Dream—Charlotte Church—Sony Classical

Best Selling Alternative Recording

The Marshall Mathers LP—Eminem—Web/Aftermath/Interscope

Best Selling Rock Recording

Human Clay—Creed—Wind-Up

Best Selling Dance Recording

Music—Madonna—Maverick/Warner Bros.

Best Selling Single Of The Year

Maria Maria—Santana—Arista

Best Selling Recording Of The Year

No Strings Attached—‘N Sync—Jive

Best Selling Artist Of The Year

(Total sales of all artist’s product
during the Award sales period)

‘N Sync—Jive

NARM serves the music and other prerecorded entertainment software industry as the pre-eminent forum for insight and dialogue for its more than 1,200 member retailers, wholesalers, distributors, entertainment software suppliers, and suppliers of related products and services.