Simply Smashing

The alternative rock quartet Smashing Pumpkins is still doing strong business in the hard-rock market with its new “Siamese Dream,” No. 3 on The Times’ Southern California hard rock chart. These sales figures place it at No. 15 on the pop chart. All this is a surprise: The album was expected to do well, but not as well as it has so far. But the chart surprise of the year is still the dominance of the “Sleepless in Seattle” soundtrack, which continues to attract buyers with a bizarre mix of romantic tunes by artists such as Gene Autry and Carly Simon.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Sleepless in Seattle, soundtrack (1) 1 2 Black Sunday, Cypress Hill (2) 2 3 Promises and Lies, UB40 (6) 4 4 janet., Janet Jackson (3) 5 5 Zooropa, U2 (4) 6 6 Back to Broadway, Barbra Streisand (11) 3 7 Da Bomb, Kris Kross (13) -- 8 Unplugged...and Seated, Rod Stewart (8) 7 9 The Bodyguard, soundtrack (7) 8 10 Core, Stone Temple Pilots (5) 11

TOP 10 SINGLES

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team (1) 1 2 Check Yo Self, Ice Cube (11) 2 3 Can’t Help Falling in Love, UB40 (2) 3 4 Very Special, Big Daddy Kane (39) 8 5 Lately, Jodeci (6) 5 6 I’m Gonna Be, The Proclaimers (4) 4 7 Slam, Onyx (3) 6 8 Insane in the Brain, Cypress Hill (16) 9 9 Alright, Kris Kross (13) 16 10 If I Had No Loot, Tony Toni Tone (7) 13

TOP 10 HARD ROCK ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Core, Stone Temple Pilots (1) 2 2 Blind Melon, Blind Melon (3) 4 3 Siamese Dream, Smashing Pumpkins (5) 1 4 Get a Grip, Aerosmith (2) 5 5 Grave Dancers Union, Soul Asylum (4) 3 6 Rage. . ., Rage Against the Machine (12) 7 7 Ten, Pearl Jam (7) 6 8 Dirt, Alice in Chains (9) 10 9 Pork Soda, Primus (10) -- 10 Last Action Hero, soundtrack (6) 8

Source: SoundScan Inc., for week of Aug. 8