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Soundgarden may have to retitle its fourth and latest album: The granddaddies of grunge are apparently quite well known, following the lead of younger Seattle acts Nirvana and Pearl Jam by debuting atop the pop charts. Long relegated to name checks in cover stories about those bands, Soundgarden looks to have ridden buzz to the top; the demand for Superunknown has been building for 10 years, with a heavy prerelease publicity campaign finally bursting the underground bubble. Equally if not more impressive is the debut at No. 2 of fellow Lollapalooza vets Nine Inch Nails, a cult band with almost no label hype. Last Weeks on Week Pop Albums Chart
1 - Soundgarden Superunknown, A&M 1 2 - Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral, Interscope 1 3 2 Ace of Bass The Sign, Arista 16 4 3 R. Kelly 12 Play, Jive 18 5 1 Toni Braxton Toni Braxton, LaFace/Arista 35 6 5 Mariah Carey Music Box, Columbia 28 7 7 Counting Crows August and Everything After, DGC 13 8 4 Celine Dion The Colour of My Love, 550/Epic 18 9 8 Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle, Death Row/Interscope 16 10 10 Enigma The Cross of Changes, Charisma 5
R&B albums
1 1 R. Kelly 12 Play, Jive 18 2 - Gangstarr Hard to Earn, Chrysalis/EMI 1 3 3 Snoop Doggy Dogg Doggystyle, Death Row/Interscope 16 4 4 Toni Braxton Toni Braxton, LaFace/Arista 35 5 5 Jodeci Diary of a Mad Band, Uptown/MCA 12 6 2 Hammer The Funky Headhunter, Giant/Reprise 2 7 6 Tevin Campbell I'm Ready, Qwest/Warner Bros. 20 8 7 Ice Cube Lethal Injection, Priority 15 9 8 Zhane Pronounced Jah-Nay, Motown 5 10 11 Mariah Carey Music Box, Columbia 28
Hard Music Albums
1 1 Alice In Chains Jar of Flies, Columbia 7 2 2 Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream, Virgin 32 3 4 Rage Against the Machine Rage Against the Machine, Epic 58 4 3 Candlebox Candlebox, Maverick/Sire 28 5 5 Stone Temple Pilots Core, Atlantic/AG 69 6 9 Aerosmith Get a Grip, Geffen.46 7 10 Danzig Thrall-Demonsweatlive, American/Warner Bros. .20 8 7 Pearl Jam Vs., Epic Associated. 20 9 11 Tool Undertow, Zoo 48 10 8 Nirvana In Utero, DGC 25
