Gritty ‘Oz’ Track Is a Local Favorite

The biggest pop-music divide between Southern California and the rest of the nation on the new album sales chart registers just below the Top 10, where the soundtrack to HBO’s gritty prison series “Oz,” with tracks by Master P, Snoop Dogg, the Wu-Tang Clan and other hip-hop heavyweights, comes in at No. 11 in the region. The album is No. 42 on the national chart, with sales of more than 33,000.

TOP 10 SINGLES

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Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 Stronger, Britney Spears (1) 3 2 Stutter, Joe (3) 13 3 Liquid Dreams, O-Town (2) 1 4 So in Love With Two, Mikaila (5) 8 5 South Side, Moby (7) 4 6 He Loves U Not, Dream (4) 2 7 Mamacita, Public Announcement (6) 7 8 Dance With Me, Debelah Morgan (9) 5 9 Independent Woman Pt. 1, Destiny’s Child (14) 6 10 Case of the Ex, Mya (13) 9

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TOP 10 ALBUMS

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Title, Artist (National Rank) Last Week 1 1, Beatles (1) 1 2 Hotshot, Shaggy (2) 6 3 Lovers Rock, Sade (6) 5 4 Tha Last Meal, Snoop Dogg (8) 2 5 Human Clay, Creed (4) 7 6 Now That’s What I Call Music 5, various (3) 4 7 Restless, Xzibit (16) 3 8 No Angel, Dido (10) 9 9 Greatest Hits, Lenny Kravitz (9) 10 10 Chocolate Starfish . . . , Limp Bizkit (5) 8

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