They may still be Public Enemy, but they're no longer No. 1: After extensive delays, bad reviews, and legal difficulties involving hyperactive jester Flavor Flav, New York's militant rap godfathers see their latest, Muse Sick-N- Hour Mess Age, debut at No. 4 on the R&B chart, and outside the top 10 on the pop. Last year's shifts in hip-hop-from political to gangsta, from the East to the West Coast-basically outmoded the once-dominant P.E. In pop's top 10, the platinum band Offspring, which continues to spearhead punk's resurgence, moves up one spot to No. 9. Considering their indie-label distribution, their success is even more impressive than that of fellow punkers Green Day. Last Weeks on Week Pop Albums Chart 1 1 Soundtrack The Lion King, Walt Disney 13 2 2 Soundtrack Forrest Gump, Epic Soundtrax 8 3 4 Stone Temple Pilots Purple, Atlantic 12 4 5 Green Day Dookie, Reprise/Warner Bros. 29 5 3 Ace of Base The Sign, Arista 40 6 6 Counting Crows August and Everything After, DGC 37 7 7 Warren G Regulate The G Funk Era, Violator/RAL 12 8 8 Candlebox Candlebox, Maverick/Sire/Warner Bros. 42 9 10 Offspring Smash, Epitaph 15 10 11 Soundgarden Superunknown, A&M 25
R&B Albums 1 - Changing Faces Changing Faces, Big Beat/Atlantic 1 2 5 Bone Thugs N Harmony Creepin On Ah Come Up, Ruthless/Relativity 10 3 1 MC Eiht Featuring CMW We Come Strapped, Epic Street 6 4 - Public Enemy Muse Sick-N-Hour Mess Age, Def Jam/PolyGram 1 5 3 Aaliyah Age Ain't Nothing But A Number, Blackground/Jive 14 6 4 Warren G Regulate The G Funk Era, Violator/RAL 12 7 2 Prince Come, Warner Bros. 2 8 6 Big Mike Somethin' Serious, Rap-a-Lot/Priority 9 9 7 Da Brat Funkdafied, So So Def/Chaos/Columbia 9 10 9 Keith Sweat Get Up on It, Elektra 9
Contemporary Jazz Albums 1 1 Kenny G Breathless, Arista 91 2 3 George Howard A Home Far Away, GRP 4 3 2 Norman Brown After the Storm, Mojazz/Motown 15 4 4 John Tesh Project Sax by the Fire, GTS 17 5 6 David Sanborn Hearsay, Elektra 12 6 5 Al Jarreau Tenderness, Reprise/Warner Bros. 14 7 8 Everette Harp Common Ground, Blue Note/Capitol 7 8 9 Incognito Positivity, Verve Forecast 21 9 7 Boney James Backbone, Warner Bros. 14 10 11 Art Porter Undercover, Verve Forecast 3
