Not Everyone Can Do It

The hot hip album on the Times’ Southern California pop album chart is “Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?,” by Ireland’s the Cranberries. Featuring the quirky, Sade-like vocals of Dolores O’Riordan, it moved up four notches to No. 8. Tag Team’s stranglehold on the top spot of the pop singles chart, with “Whoomp! (There It Is),” is being challenged by three singles that have come from nowhere in the last few weeks: Zhane’s “Hey Mr. D.J.” (No. 2), Ace of Base’s “All That She Wants” (No. 3) and Xscape’s “Just Kickin’ It” (No. 8).

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 In Utero, Nirvana (2) 1 2 Music Box, Mariah Carey (4) 2 3 janet., Janet Jackson (7) 5 4 In Pieces, Garth Brooks (1) 3 5 Easy Come..., George Strait (5) ... 6 Blind Melon, Blind Melon (9) 7 7 Sleepless..., soundtrack (12) 6 8 Everybody..., Cranberries (36) 12 9 Promises and Lies, UB40 (24) 10 10 Greatest 2, Reba McEntire (8) ...

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TOP 10 SINGLES

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team (1) 1 2 Hey Mr. D.J., Zhane (7) 6 3 All That She Wants, Ace of Base (9) 12 4 I Get Around, 2Pac (5) 3 5 Dreamlover, Mariah Carey (3) 2 6 Anniversary, Tony Toni Tone (12) 17 7 Indo Smoke, Mista Grimm (62) 4 8 Just Kickin’ It, Xscape (2) 17 9 Mega Medley, Zapp and Roger (45) 8 10 Another Sad Love Song, Toni Braxton (16) 10

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TOP 10 RAP ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Black Sunday, Cypress Hill (2) 1 2 187 He Wrote, Spice 1 (1) ... 3 The Chronic, Dr. Dre (3) 2 4 Strictly 4 N.I.G.G.A.Z., 2Pac (9) 5 5 Buhloone Mind State, De La Soul (8) 4 6 93 ‘Til Infinity, Souls of Mischief (11) ... 7 Da Bomb, Kris Kross (7) 6 8 Whoomp! (There It Is), Tag Team (6) 8 9 Predator, Ice Cube (12) ... 10 World Is Yours, Scarface (5) 9

Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ending Oct. 3