‘Ten’ Scores a No. 1

The album “Ten” by Seattle rockers Pearl Jam leads The Times’ new Southern California pop music charts, premiering today.

Each week we will present the region’s top-selling albums and singles. National rankings--still published in Friday’s Calendar--will be included in the new Sunday charts, along with a rotating list of top R&B;, rap, country and hard rock albums. Rankings are based on actual record sales.

The exclusive Southern California charts are prepared by The Times from information supplied by SoundScan Inc., the music industry’s leading sales-reporting service.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Title Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Ten Pearl Jam (3) -- 2 Unplugged Eric Clapton (2) -- 3 Bobby Bobby Brown (5) 4 Beyond the Season Garth Brooks (4) -- 5 Blood Sugar... Red Hot Chili Peppers (11) -- 6 One Elton John (13) -- 7 Some Gave All Billy Ray Cyrus (1) -- 8 Diva Annie Lennox (30) -- 9 Funky Divas En Vogue (9) -- 10 House of Pain House of Pain (19) --

TOP 10 SINGLES

Title Artist (National Rank) 1 End of the Road Boyz II Men (1) 2 Back to the Hotel N2Deep (10) 3 Jump Around House of Pain (2) 4 Stay Shakespear’s Sister (6) 5 Baby Baby Baby TLC (7) 6 People Everyday Arrested Development (11) 7 November Rain Guns N’ Roses (4) 8 Please Don’t Go K.W.S. (16) 9 This Used to Be My ... Madonna (12) 10 Just Another Day Jon Secada (14)

Last Week 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 --

TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS

Title Artist (National Rank) 1 House of Pain House of Pain (3) 2 Totally Krossed Out Kris Kross (1) 3 3 Years, 5 ... Arrested Development (2) 4 Back to the Hotel N2Deep (6) 5 Way 2 Fonky DJ Quik (8) 6 Business Never Personal EPMD (7) 7 Cypress Hill Cypress Hill (10) 8 Shorty the Pimp Too Short (4) 9 Dead Serious Das EFX (9) 10 Check Your Head Beastie Boys (11)

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ending Sept. 13