Music Charts Archive

Weekly national charts, as the trade papers printed them

FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 28, 2002
HOT 100SINGLES
100 positions ← 12/21 01/04/03 →

This chart comes from the chart file, not from a page. The scans supplied don’t include the issue dated December 28, 2002, so its ranks, titles, artists and LAST WEEK figures come from the owner’s 1980-2009 Hot 100 chart file, which agrees with the pages either side: the next page’s LAST WEEK column names the same ranks. 2 WKS AGO and WKS ON CHART follow the pages’ own count, and each label is the one the pages print for the record. The bullets and the Hot Shot Debut are inferred from the chart’s movement, by the rule the archive uses for 1958-1979: a record is bulleted when it is new, re-entering, up on last week, or at last week’s rank for the second week running, unless it stood higher earlier in the same run; and a record that has peaked and moves up three places or fewer gets no bullet when it has none in the two weeks before and the two weeks after.

This weekLast week2 wks agoWks. on chartTitle Artist
Label
Peak
1 1 1 13
★★ NO. 1 ★★8 weeks at No. One
SHADY 497815/INTERSCOPE
1
2 2 2 16
THE GOLD MIND/ELEKTRA 67340/EEG
2
3 3 3 12
EPIC 79825
3
4 5 6 10
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 063843/IDJMG
4
5 4 7 8
FO' REEL/UNIVERSAL (B/W DILEMMA)/UMRG
4
6 10 11 6
RCA ALBUM CUT
6
7 12 22 5
EPIC 79829
7
8 8 9 21
JIVE 40041
8
9 6 4 18
INTERSCOPE 497768
3
10 7 5 13
ARISTA 15203
5
11 11 12 17
FOX 113987/MCA
11
12 9 8 35
BLACK SHADOW/2 HARD 6403/VP/ATLANTIC
7
13 14 14 12
FLAWLESS/GEFFEN ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
13
14 15 13 15
MONUMENT ALBUM CUT/EMN
13
15 24 31 5
UNIVERSAL ALBUM CUT/BLACKGROUND/UMRG
15
16 26 35 4
ARISTA ALBUM CUT
16
17 13 10 19
DEF JAM 063956/IDJMG
4
18 17 19 17
DEF SOUL ALBUM CUT/IDJMG
17
19 30 34 4
AMARU/DEATH ROW ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
19
20 16 15 18
ROC-A-FELLA/DEF JAM 063958/IDJMG
3
21 25 30 7
ARISTA ALBUM CUT
21
22 23 23 9
AWARE ALBUM CUT/COLUMBIA
22
23 27 27 13
MCA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
23
24 20 18 30
WIND-UP ALBUM CUT
6
25 NEW▶ 1
★★★ HOT SHOT DEBUT ★★★
EPIC ALBUM CUT
25
26 18 17 25
FO' REEL/UNIVERSAL 019509/UMRG
1
27 19 20 16
STAR TRAK 15154/ARISTA
19
28 22 24 13
DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
22
29 44 — 2
JIVE ALBUM CUT
29
30 28 25 13
LYRIC STREET ALBUM CUT
23
31 34 42 6
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
31
32 35 51 8
JIVE 40065
32
33 29 29 11
ATLANTIC ALBUM CUT
29
34 46 57 5
LAVA ALBUM CUT/ATLANTIC OR UNIVERSAL SOUTH 172274
34
35 21 16 11
WARNER BROS. 42492
8
36 38 62 4
DEF SOUL ALBUM CUT/IDJMG
36
37 33 37 7
DIVINE MILL ALBUM CUT/WARNER BROS
33
38 49 52 6
REPUBLIC/UNIVERSAL ALBUM CUT/UMRG
38
39 58 — 2
ILL WILL ALBUM CUT/COLUMBIA
39
40 31 28 14
MUSIC WORLD 79820/COLUMBIA
27
41 36 32 31
ARISTA 15185
2
42 32 21 17
JIVE 40054
11
43 54 56 7
CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 060079/UMRG
43
44 45 54 7
DREAMWORKS (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
44
45 57 60 5
RUFF RYDERS ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
45
46 37 33 20
CAPITOL (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
23
47 53 61 3
DAYLIGHT ALBUM CUT/EPIC
47
48 41 38 11
J 21221
36
49 50 78 5
G-UNIT/SHADY 497816/INTERSCOPE
49
50 43 46 9
ROSWELL ALBUM CUT/RCA
43
This weekLast week2 wks agoWks. on chartTitle Artist
Label
Peak
51 56 66 4
RISE ALBUM CUT/COLUMBIA
51
52 40 40 12
CURB ALBUM CUT
40
53 69 85 3
DEF JAM 063820/IDJMG
53
54 51 50 19
BLACKGROUND ALBUM CUT
16
55 42 48 6
MURDER INC./DEF JAM 063838/IDJMG
42
56 39 26 16
ARISTA ALBUM CUT
10
57 60 69 4
WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT/WRN
57
58 52 47 11
DGC/GEFFEN ALBUM CUT/INTERSCOPE
45
59 59 63 8
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) 172262
59
60 55 58 5
BNA ALBUM CUT
55
61 67 67 9
ROBBINS 72056
61
62 68 71 8
J 21236
62
63 66 70 3
ISLAND ALBUM CUT/IDJMG
63
64 75 77 5
EPIC ALBUM CUT
64
65 62 55 14
BLUE NOTE ALBUM CUT/VIRGIN
52
66 83 68 15
RCA 60617
48
67 NEW▶ 1
MURDER INC./DEF JAM 063773/IDJMG
67
68 NEW▶ 1
RCA (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
68
69 73 73 6
INTERSCOPE ALBUM CUT/EPIC
69
70 64 64 4
J ALBUM CUT
64
71 82 84 7
DREAMWORKS 450833
71
72 NEW▶ 1
WIND-UP ALBUM CUT
72
73 72 72 9
ROADRUNNER SOUNDTRACK & ALBUM CUT/IDJMG
56
74 74 76 14
REPRISE ALBUM CUT
58
75 NEW▶ 1
THE GOLD MIND/ELEKTRA ALBUM CUT/EEG
75
76 63 43 11
MERCURY (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT/IDJMG
34
77 65 36 15
RCA 60622
1
78 NEW▶ 1
INTERSCOPE ALBUM CUT
78
79 85 96 3
MCA 113999
79
80 70 53 8
WARNER BROS. ALBUM CUT
49
81 79 74 9
LAVA ALBUM CUT
59
82 76 49 10
ARISTA 15171
28
83 78 81 18
WARNER BROS. (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT/WRN/WARNER BROS
33
84 NEW▶ 1
MONARC/ISLAND 063793/IDJMG
84
85 81 94 7
ARISTA 15197
81
86 77 79 8
DOGGYSTYLE/PRIORITY 77843/CAPITOL
77
87 80 75 4
ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
75
88 71 65 19
COLUMBIA ALBUM CUT
44
89 99 — 2
MCA 113957
89
90 89 91 20
AMERICAN ALBUM CUT/COLUMBIA
55
91 84 82 10
ARISTA 15166
71
92 95 98 3
CAPITOL 77829
92
93 90 87 12
SURRENDER/ELEKTRA 67330/EEG
82
94 96 — 2
SLIP-N-SLIDE 85404/ATLANTIC
94
95 86 86 8
ARISTA 15196
86
96 87 83 14
COLUMBIA (NASHVILLE) ALBUM CUT
40
97 94 93 19
ARISTA NASHVILLE ALBUM CUT
35
98 NEW▶ 1
CATALOGUE 77870/CAPITOL
98
99 88 88 18
MAVERICK ALBUM CUT/WARNER BROS.
21
100 93 90 18
CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL 060065/UMRG
46

  Products with the greatest airplay and sales gains this week.