Best videos

Weekly charts for the nation's most popular videos as they appear in next week's issue of Billboard magazine. Reprinted with permission:

Top video rentals

(Compiled from a national sample of rental reports)

1. ''American Pie,'' Universal Studios Home Video.

2. ''Stir of Echoes,'' Artisan Home Entertainment.

3. ''Blue Streak,'' Columbia Tristar Home Video.

4. ''Runaway Bride,'' Paramount Home Video.

5. ''Bowfinger,'' Universal Studios Home Video.

6. ''The Astronaught's Wife,'' New Line Home Video.

Top video sales

(Compiled from a national sample of sales reports)

1. ''Tarzan,'' Walt Disney Home Video.

2. ''The Matrix,'' Warner Home Video.

3. ''CNN Millennium 2000,'' Turner Home Entertainment.

4. ''Slipknot: Welcome To Our Neighborhood,'' Slipknot. Roadrunner Video.

5. ''Buena Vista Social Club,'' Artisan Home Entertainment.

6. ''Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,'' New Line Home Video.