‘Road’ to the Top

Though her album, “Stones in the Road” is more pop than country, Mary Chapin Carpenter is still dominating in the country market, topping both The Times’ Southern California country chart and the national country chart. As expected, Nirvana’s album “Unplugged In New York” debuted at the top of both the Southern California and the national pop charts. The Kurt Cobain mystique lives on. Madonna’s album “Bedtime Stories” is still going strong, slipping just two notches to No. 4 on the regional pop chart.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Unplugged in New York, Nirvana (1) ... 2 Murder Was the Case, soundtrack (3) 1 3 II, Boyz II Men (2) 3 4 Bedtime Stories, Madonna (7) 2 5 Youthanasia, Megadeth (4) ... 6 Smash, Offspring (5) 6 7 No Need to Argue, Cranberries (13) 4 8 Pulp Fiction, soundtrack (22) 7 9 Tuesday Night, Sheryl Crow (15) 9 10 From the Cradle, Eric Clapton (10) 10

TOP 10 SINGLES

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 The Hotstepper, Ini Kamoze (1) 1 2 Playaz Club, Rappin’ 4-Tay (27) 2 3 Never Lie, Immature (6) 4 4 I Wanna Be Down, Brandy (5) 3 5 Tootsee Roll, 69 Boyz (7) 5 6 Short ... Man, Twenty Fingers (21) 20 7 I’ll Make Love to You, Boyz II Men (3) 6 8 Sukiyaki, 4 P.M. (57) 8 9 Another Night, Real McCoy (8) 7 10 Thuggish Ruggish Bone, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony (11) 9

TOP 10 COUNTRY ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Stones in Road, Mary C. Carpenter (1) 1 2 One Emotion, Clint Black (13) 7 3 The Tractors, The Tractors (2) 2 4 Not a Moment, Tim McGraw (3) 4 5 Waitin’ ... , Brooks and Dunn (5) 3 6 Healing Hands, Willie Nelson (26) ... 7 When Love Finds You, Vince Gill (6) 5 8 Who I Am, Alan Jackson (4) 6 9 Read My Mind, Reba McEntire (12) 8 10 Kickin’ It Up, John M. Montgomery (10) 9

Source: SoundScan Inc., for week of Nov. 6