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When you're big, you're big: Few bands ever debut in the top 10, and even fewer can do so with an album of B sides and throwaway cuts. But Smashing Pumpkins have pulled it off with Pisces Iscariot, which enters at No. 4 this week. After going a year and a half without releasing new material, headlining last summer's Lollapalooza tour, and performing on the MTV Video Music Awards, the Pumpkins have clearly more than whetted the public's appetite for new material. Awards, obviously, aren't crucial to commercial success: Both the Pumpkins and this week's other debut, Mary Chapin Carpenter, walked home empty-handed from the Video Music Awards and Country Music Awards shows, respectively. LAST POP ALBUMS WEEKS ON WEEK CHART
1 1 R.E.M. Monster, Warner Bros. 2 2 2 Boyz II Men II, Motown 6 3 3 Eric Clapton From the Cradle, Duck/Reprise 4 4 - Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot, Virgin 1 5 7 Offspring Offspring, Epitaph 21 6 4 Anita Baker Rhythm of Love, Elektra 4 7 6 Soundtrack The Lion King, Walt Disney 19 8 9 Green day Dookie, Reprise/Warner Bros. 35 9 5 Luther Vandross Songs, Epic 3 10 - Mary Chapin Carpenter Stones in the Road, Columbia 1
R&B Albums
1 1 Anita Baker Rhythm of Love, Elektra 4 2 3 Soundtrack Jason's Lyric, Mercury 2 3 5 Bone Thugs 'n Harmony Creepin' On Ah Come Up, Ruthless/Relativity 16 4 4 Boyz II Men II, Motown 6 5 - Barry White The Icon Is Love, A&M 1 6 2 Luther Vandross Songs, Epic 3 7 6 Notorious B.i.g. Ready to Die, Bad Boy/Arista 4 8 7 Gerald Levert Groove On, EastWest 5 9 8 Craig Mack PROJECT: Funk Da World, Bad Boy/Arista 3 10 11 Brandy Brandy, Atlantic 2
OF CONCERTS TICKET SHOWS SALES
1 1 Eagles Washington, D.C. $2,045,890 2 4 Elton John Los Angeles $1,485,286 3 2 Jimmy Buffett Engelwood, Colo. $726,865 4 1 Elton John Anaheim, Calif. $616,695 5 1 Aerosmith Maryland Heights, Mo. $449,463 6 1 Eric Clapton Montreal $439,098 7 1 Reba McEntire Lexington, Ky. $438,224 8 2 Frank Sinatra Dallas. $411,075 9 1 Elton John Engelwood, Colo. $404,015 10 1 Aerosmith Bonner Springs, Kan. $399,945
