A Mighty Sting
One of the biggest “best of” albums of the Christmas season should be the Sting collection, “Fields Of Gold,” which entered the Times’ Southern California pop chart at No. 3 and the national chart at No. 7.
TOP 10 ALBUMS
Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Hell Freezes Over, Eagles (1) -- 2 Unplugged In New York, Nirvana (2) 1 3 Fields Of Gold, Sting (7) -- 4 Best Of, Sade (9) -- 5 No Quarter, Page/Plant (4) -- 6 II, Boyz II Men (3) 3 7 Murder Was the Case, soundtrack (5) 2 8 Pulp Fiction, soundtrack (24) 8 9 Smash, Offspring (6) 6 10 Bedtime Stories, Madonna (16) 4
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 (9) 3 4 I Wanna Be Down, Brandy (5) 4 5 Tootsee Roll, 69 Boyz (6) 5 6 On Bended Knee, Boyz II Men (4) -- 7 Secret, Madonna (12) 11 8 Short. . .Man, Twenty Fingers (20) 6 9 Creep, TLC (8) -- 10 Another Night, Real McCoy (7) 9
TOP 10 HARD ROCK ALBUMS
Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Unplugged In New York, Nirvana (1) 1 2 No Quarter, Page/Plant (2) -- 3 Smash, Offspring (3) 3 4 Dookie, Green Day (5) 4 5 Big Ones, Aerosmith (4) 6 6 Youthansia, Megadeth (6) 2 7 Purple, Stone Temple Pilots, (8) 8 8 Amorica , Black Crowes (10) 5 9 Pisces Iscariot,. . .Pumpkins (11) 7 10 Candlebox, Candlebox (9) 10
Source: SoundScan Inc., for week of Nov. 13
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