M’s the Word

Madonna has reached into the vaults for her latest hit. “Something to Remember,” which combines the platinum-selling blonde’s best-selling ballads with three new songs, is No. 3 on The Times’ Southern California album chart. Included among several chart-topping songs is 1992’s “This Used to Be My Playground,” which has never before appeared on a Madonna album. Topping the local album chart for the second week in a row is “Dogg Food,” the debut from L.A.-based rappers Tha Dogg Pound. Alice in Chains’ self-titled album debuts at No. 1 in the national chart, but it fell short in the local chart.

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Dogg Food, Tha Dogg Pound (4) 1 2 Daydream, Mariah Carey (2) 3 3 Something to Remember, Madonna (6) ... 4 Alice in Chains, Alice in Chains (1) ... 5 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sad ness, Smashing Pumpkins (5) 4 6 Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (3) 5 7 Cypress Hill III, Cypress Hill (10) 2 8 Dead Presidents, soundtrack (31) 9 9 Cracked Rear View, Hootie & the Blowfish (8) 7 10 Gangsta’s Paradise, Coolio (11) ...

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Exhale (Shoop Shoop), Whitney Hous ton (1) ... 2 Hey Lover, LL Cool J (4) 17 3 Fantasy, Mariah Carey (5) 1 4 Set U Free, Planet Soul (41) 4 5 Gangsta’s Paradise, Coolio (2) 2 6 You Remind Me, R. Kelly (3) 7 7 Tell Me, Groove Theory (8) 3 8 Who Can I Run To, Xscape (6) 5 9 Runaway, Janet Jackson (7) 6 10 Where Ever You Are, Terry Ellis (26) 14

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TOP 10 HARD ROCK ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Alice in Chains, Alice in Chains (1) ... 2 Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sad ness, Smashing Pumpkins (2) 1 3 Insomniac, Green Day (4) 2 4 One Hot Minute, Red Hot Chili Peppers (6) 3 5 Sixteen Stone, Bush (7) 5 6 Ozzmosis, Ozzy Osbourne (3) 4 7 Frogstomp, Silverchair (8) 7 8 Vault--Greatest Hits, Def Leppard (5) 6 9 ... And Out Come the Wolves, Rancid (17) 8 10 Foo Fighters, Foo Fighters (13) 9

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ending Nov. 12