A colossal chart event hits us this week. After spending much of the past year at No. 1 or No. 2, M.C. Hammer (perhaps the pop sensation of 1990) has fallen all the way down to No. 4, supplanted by Madonna. Vanilla Ice continues his long reign at No. 1, and with Hammer now most likely starting to fade, we can say farewell with a striking statistic: With 14 million albums sold between them, these two pop rappers, M.C. Hammer and Vanilla Ice, have registered something like 11 2 times as many sales as the rest of the records in the Top 10 combined. LAST POP ALBUMS WEEKS ON WEEK CHART
1 1 Vanilla Ice 19 To the Extreme, SBK 2 3 Madonna 9 The Immaculate Collection, Sire 3 4 The Simpsons 6 The Simpsons Sing the Blues, Geffen 4 2 M.C. Hammer 47 Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, Capitol 5 5 MARIAH CAREY 31 Mariah Carey, Columbia 6 6 Whitney Houston 10 I'm Your Baby Tonight, Arista 7 7 Wilson Phillips 42 Wilson Phillips, SBK 8 9 AC/DC 17 The Razors Edge, Atco 9 8 Bette Midler 16 Some People's Lives, Atlantic 10 10 Paul Simon 13 The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.
CLASSICAL ALBUMS
1 1 Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti (Mehta) 18 In Concert, London 2 2 Leonard Bernstein 44 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, DG 3 3 Vladimir Horowitz 38 Horowitz: The Last Recording,Sony Classical 4 4 Kronos Quartet 28 Black Angels, Nonesuch 5 5 Eastman-Rochester Orchestra 16 Hanson Conducts Hanson, Mercury 6 6 Evgeny Kissin 6 Carnegie Hall Debut Concert, RCA 7 9 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg 6 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Angel 8 10 Itzhak Perlman/Daniel Barenboim 14 Brahms: The 3 Violin Sonatas, Sony Classical 9 8 St. Louis Symphony (Slatkin) 10 Copland: Symphony No. 3, RCA 10 7 New York Philharmonic (Bernstein) 20 Ives: Symphony No. 2, DG
