Burning Bush

Bush, led by singer Gavin Rossdale, has been dismissed by critics as too derivative of Nirvana and Pearl Jam. But that hasn’t stopped the British rock group’s “Sixteen Stone” album, a favorite among modern-rock radio programmers, from steadily moving up the sales charts. The collection, released 13 months ago, last week completed a slow climb into the national Top 10 and this week jumps to No. 6 on The Times’ Southern California album chart and No. 5 nationally. It is joined in the Top 10 this week by another English rock band, Oasis’ “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”

TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Waiting to Exhale, soundtrack (1) 1 2 Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette (3) 2 Daydream, Mariah Carey (2) 3 4 Memory of Trees, Enya (13) 12 5 (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, Oasis (9) 11 6 Sixteen Stone, Bush (5) 7 7 Cracked Rear View, Hootie & the Blowfish (4) 4 8 Relish, Joan Osborne (16) 9 9 Young Rich & Dangerous, Kris Kross (15) ... 10 Something to Remember, Madonna (14) 8

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TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 One Sweet Day, Mariah Carey (1) 1 2 Hey Lover, LL Cool J (3) 2 3 Feels So Good, Lina Santiago (63) ... 4 Ridin’ Low, L.A.D. (36) 4 5 Tonite’s Tha Night, Kris Kross (4) 5 6 Missing, Everything but the Girl (12) 13 7 Anything, 3T (9) 12 8 Exhale (Shoop Shoop), Whitney Houston (2) 3 9 Let’s Play House, Tha Dogg Pound (18) 6 10 Set U Free, Planet Soul (25) 8

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TOP 10 R&B; ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (Nat’l Rank) Last Week 1 Waiting to Exhale, soundtrack (1) 1 2 Daydream, Mariah Carey (2) 2 3 Young Rich & Dangerous, Kris Kross (5) ... 4 Dogg Food, Tha Dogg Pound (9) 3 5 Mr. Smith, LL Cool J (10) 5 6 R. Kelly, R. Kelly (3) 4 7 Don’t Be a Menace, soundtrack (6) ... 8 Design of a Decade, Janet Jackson (7) 7 9 CrazySexyCool, TLC (4) 6 10 Q’s Jook Joint, Quincy Jones (14) ...

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Source: SoundScan Inc., for week ending Jan. 14