ONE-DAYS ARE NOTHING
TO WRITE HOME ABOUT

No need to interrupt your morning tennis match, afternoon martini, or early-evening nap. You don't even have to leave your gently swaying hammock in the Hamptons or your Laguna lounger.

This week's one-day sales reports from retailers are as unremarkable as the breakup of Liza Minnelli and David Gest's marriage.

P. Diddy's Bad Boy/Universal bow, the Bad Boys II soundtrack, will keep its spot above the HITS Top 50 for the fourth consecutive week, the first album to do so since Shania Twain reigned for a month back in Nov.-Dec. of last year.

Wynonna's Curb Records album, What the World Needs Now Is Love, should do between 50-60k in first-week sales, which may be good enough for a Top 10 debut. Don't ask.

It's left to Arista Nashville's patriotic cowboy Alan Jackson, whose new Greatest Hits Volume II hits retail Tuesday, to raise us from our summer doldrums. Thanks to the hit country single, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere," his duet with Jimmy Buffett, speculators are speculating the album could approach 300k. His last album, Drive, sold more than 420k copies its first week, and is now quadruple platinum, thanks to the crossover 9/11 hit, "Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)."

It's the latest hit release from Joe Galante and Butch Waugh's red-hot RCA Nashille Label Group family, which has also produced recent charting records from Brooks & Dunn, Brad Paisley and Lonestar as well as the 2.6-million-selling Kenny Chesney.