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Who needs electricity to get charged up? Certainly not Live; their sophomore disc, Throwing Copper, finally jumps to No. 1 on the pop chart after a year. Their latest single, ''Lightning Crashes,'' continues to rule at album rock radio (where it spent the past six weeks at No. 1), but what most likely threw Copper upward was last week's MTV debut of Live's February Unplugged performance. The juice from Sheryl Crow's Unplugged, on the other hand, has faded; her Tuesday Night Music Club drops out of the top 10, allowing returns by John Michael Montgomery and TLC.
POP ALBUMS
LAST WEEKS WEEK ON CHART 1 4 LIVE Throwing Copper, Radioactive 52 2 2 SOUNDTRACK Friday, Priority 2 3 3 HOOTIE & THE BLOWFISH Cracked Rear View, Atlantic 41 4 1 SOUNDTRACK The Lion King, Walt Disney 47 5 5 2PAC Me Against the World, Out Da Gutta/Interscope 6 6 7 BOYZ II MEN II, Motown 34 7 13 JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY John Michael Montgomery, Atlantic 4 8 8 EAGLES Hell Freezes Over, Geffen 24 9 6 WHITE ZOMBIE Astro-Creep, Geffen 2 10 12 TLC CrazySexyCool, Laface/Arista 23
COUNTRY ALBUMS 1 1 JOHN MICHAEL MONTGOMERY John Michael Montgomery, Atlantic 4 2 2 GARTH BROOKS The Hits, Liberty 19 3 3 TRACY BYRD No Ordinary Man, MCA 46 4 5 ALISON KRAUSS Now That I've Found You: A Collection, Rounder 11 5 4 TIM MCGRAW Not a Moment Too Soon, Curb 57 6 6 JEFF FOXWORTHY You Might Be a Redneck If..., Warner Bros. 67 7 9 GEORGE STRAIT Lead On, MCA 24 8 11 SAWYER BROWN Greatest Hits 1990-1995, Curb 13 9 13 SHANIA TWAIN The Woman in Me, Mercury 11 10 7 JOE DIFFIE Third Rock From the Sun, Epic 39
COLLEGE ALBUMS
1 1 PJ HARVEY To Bring You My Love, Island 8 2 3 MORPHINE Yes, Rykodisc 7 3 2 MIKE WATT ball-hog or tugboat?, Columbia 8 4 4 MATTHEW SWEET 100% Fun, Zoo 6 5 10 JULIANA HATFIELD Only Everything, Atlantic/Mammoth 4 6 6 ELASTICA Elastica, Geffen 6 7 8 SOUNDTRACK Tank Girl, Elektra 4 8 9 KMFDM Nihil, Wax Trax!/TVT 6 9 11 GOO GOO DOLLS A Boy Named Goo, Warner Bros./Metal Blade 6 10 5 ARCHERS OF LOAF Vee Vee, Alias 8
(C)1995 BPI COMMUNICATIONS INC./SOUNDSCAN INC. USED WITH PERMISSION FROM BILLBOARD, MAY 5, 1995 (C)1995 CMJ NEW MUSIC REPORT, MAY 1, 1995
