As ‘The Crow’ Flies

It looks as if teen fans are rushing out of theaters showing the Brandon Lee action movie “The Crow” and heading straight to record stores. The soundtrack, featuring new tracks by Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against the Machine and other alternative-rock artists, soared to the top of both The Times’ Southern California pop album chart and the national chart. For an indication of where Boingo’s following is concentrated, check out the disparity between the standing of its “Boingo” album on The Times’ chart (No. 3) and its ranking nationally (No. 71).

TOP 10 ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 The Crow, soundtrack (1) 2 2 Chant, Benedictine Monks (4) 1 3 Boingo, Boingo (71) 3 4 August and ... After, Counting Crows (6) 3 5 The Sign, Ace of Base (3) 4 6 I Say I Say I Say, Erasure (18) -- 7 Above the Rim, soundtrack (5) 5 8 Live at the Acropolis, Yanni (15) 12 9 The Division Bell, Pink Floyd (7) 6 10 All-4-One, All-4-One (10) 11

TOP 10 SINGLES

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 I Swear, All-4-One (1) 2 2 Regulate, Warren G. & Nate Dogg (2) 1 3 Back and Forth, Aaliyah (3) 3 4 I’ll Remember, Madonna (4) 4 5 Back in the Day, Ahmad (61) 5 6 The Most Beautiful Girl ..., Prince (9) 6 7 Any Time, Any Place, Janet Jackson (15) -- 8 You Mean the World ..., Toni Braxton (16) 8 9 Your Body’s Callin’, R. Kelly (8) -- 10 Return to Innocence, Enigma (6) 7

TOP 10 R&B; ALBUMS

Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Above the Rim, soundtrack (1) 1 2 All-4-One, All-4-One (3) 4 3 Toni Braxton, Toni Braxton (4) 2 4 12 Play, R. Kelly (2) 3 5 ‘N Gatz We Truss, S. Central Cartel (12) 5 6 janet., Janet Jackson (10) 8 7 Music Box, Mariah Carey (5) 6 8 Doggystyle, Snoop Doggy Dogg (6) 7 9 Crooklyn, soundtrack (16) -- 10 Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzi, (7) 10

Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ending May 22