In music industry parlance, May 20 was a Super Tuesday, one of the two or three Tuesdays a year when a stack of superstar albums are released. (New records always arrive in stores on Tuesdays; hence the slang.) Retailers love Super Tuesdays because they usually bring a flood of fans into their stores, but this particular one didn't turn out to be so super. New releases from proven moneymakers KRS-One, James Taylor, Foo Fighters, Michael Jackson, Sammy Hagar, Toad the Wet Sprocket and John Fogerty all hit the charts, but minus KRS-One, they did so with rather underwhelming sales. In fact, for the second week in a row, just one album -- The Spice Girls' still-No. 1 "Spice" -- managed to sell more than 100,000 records.

\\According to SoundScan, for the week ending May 25, "Spice" sold 136,000 copies, followed by Bob Carlisle's "Butterfly Kisses" (99,000 copies); KRS-One's "I Got Next" (94,000); the soundtrack to "I'm Bout It" (92,000); Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life After Death" (87,000); Hanson's "Middle of Nowhere" (80,000); George Strait's "Carrying Your Love With Me" (78,000); Mary J. Blige's "Share My World" (77,000); James Taylor's "Hourglass" (72,000) and Foo Fighters' "The Colour and The Shape" (71,000).

\\Other debuts worthy of note included Sammy Hagar's "Marching To Mars," which hit the charts at No. 18, with 43,000 copies sold; Toad the Wet Sprocket's "Coil" at No. 19 (42,000); Michael Jackson's "Blood on the Dance Floor" EP at No. 24 (35,000); and John Fogerty's "Blue Moon Swamp" at No. 38 (28,000).

\\One of the few albums that did debut better than expected was composer John Williams' instrumental score to "The Lost World." Riding a wave of popular fascination with all-things-Spielberg, it came in at No. 88, selling 14,000 copies, or more tha