August 19, 1991 Volume 6 Issue 255 $6.00 ere, WINNERS HITSBOUND BONNIE RAITT Cap AARON NE VILLE A&M MART1KA Col LUTHER VANDROSS Ep+c MARC COHN Atl JESUS JONES SBK BAD CO. Atoe BOB SEGER Cap N: P R O G R A M D I R E C T O R EARPICKS JESUS JONES SBK BOB SEGER Caprtol BAD CO. Atoe M. L. TO ROCK Impact BREAKOUTS YES Atco MARKY MARK InterfEW OAKTO WN'S 3.5.7 Bust/Cap CORINA Atoe WILDCARD MARIAN CAREY Col See Page 10 For Details HOT NE W LENNY KRAVFTZ RELEASES ALICE IN CHAINS KIRSTY MACCOLL Man In The Box Walking Down Col 38T-73851 Char 96342 BAD ENGLISH METALLICA Straight To Your... Enter Sandman Epic 34T-73982 Elek 94-64857 JAMES BRO WN OR-N-MORE Move On Every Other Day S Bros 7239275286 EMI 50359 TEVIN CA MPBELL PRETTY IN PINK Just Ask Me To All About You Owest/WB 19275 Motown 1279 MARIAH CAREY MICHAEL W. SMITH Emotions For You Col 38T-73977 Reurt/Gef 4301 4 FUN SOUTHGANG You Can't Play Me Painted Angel EW 98708 Char 91639 GREAT WHITE STING Lovin' Kind Mad About You Cap 44746 M M 75021-1580 PHYLLIS HYMAN BE BE & CE CE WINANS Don't Wanna Change... Addictive Love Zoo 72445-14005-4 Cap 44721 L A. GUNS Kiss My Love Goodbye Poty/PLG 867-4C04 .à6.1141.‘ • e ;elm° August 19, 1991 Volume 5 Issue 255 $6.00 DENNIS LAVINTHAL Publisher SIN GLES Together Again LENNY BEER Bryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Bryan Adams, Bryan Editor In Chief Adams, etc. and ditto. 4 TONI PROFERA Executive Editor DAVID ADELSON Vice President/Managing Editor DIAL O G UE MIKE MURPHY The Inland Empire Strikes Back as KGGI Riverside Senior Broadcast Editor OM Larry Martino babbles on about [PD] Bob 34 ROY TRAKIN Between them, WEA's Henry Senior Editor [West] to HITS' radio jezebel Connie "Geez Louise" ANITA WEBB Breeze. Droz and CEMA's Russ Bach will Operations Manager be carving up the world as KAREN GLAUBER Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis' new Perspective label they've divvied up the charts at Post Modern Editor is very hip. HITS' rotund fireplug "Flo" Joe Med- 36 their respective distribution GRAHAM ARMSTRONG confabs in Chicago and Dallas. Jams Editor wick hasn't seen his hips since the late '70s. And while Droz and the troops DANNY OSTROW should be gloating over landing Broadcast Editor DARRYL LINDSEY POST MO DER N six albums in the current Top Rap Editor Ten, Bach and the gang'11 be TODD HENSLEY Siouxsie finally goes #I. When will Ivana finally go? toasting #1's by M.C. Hammer, CONNIE BREEZE 42 ADRIAN MILLER Vanilla Ice, Wilson Phillips and Research Editors JA MS Sinead O'Connor since last MARK PEARSON Warner Bros.' Karyn White is getting "Romantic," year's meet. Of course, both Research Coordinator while JAMS Editor Graham "Sandwich" 51 TERRY MOSER gatherings will feature grown NICK BULL Armstrong's idea of romance is picking up a 40 oz. men in party hats tossing TVs ANGELA GARCIA bottle of malt liquor and watching re-runs of "Dif- out of their Motel 6 windows and KANDACE TAYLOR ferent Strokes." skinny-dipping in the pool. At LLOYD STARK least that's what we do at these RUSTY STAGGERS BETSY ALTOMARE things. Research Assistants ALB U MS Natalie Cole still leads by a mile, but Metallica will FRANCIS LAMBERT rule the roost next week. 70 MICHAEL ALLEN Computer Operations KEITH MACLEOD Art Director Earpicks 38 HEATHER LOSE Hitsbound 22 Jesus Jones rises again. Editorial Design Bonnie Rains while Marc BRIAN LINDSEY Cohn goes for the "Silver." ELLIE LEACOCK Top Tens 65 VAN ARNO Natalie "Queen" Cole. Art & Design Requests 32 Boyz grow up, turn to Men. DANNY FIELDS Breakouts 68 NEIL HARRIS Yes & Marky Mark. Contributing Editors MICHAEL FLYNN Facility Manager Front Page 9 On The Cover COLOR WEST 18 Wheels & Deals 62 Near Truths "It Ain't Over 'I'd It's Over," Lithography 21 New Artists 62 Far Truths or until your mug is put on the 14958 Ventura Blvd. 42 Wavelength 74 cover of HITS, as Lenny Sherman Oaks, CA 91403 Post Toasted (818) 501-7900 Kravitz finds out this week. H I TS TO P FIF T Y SIJN GLLEJS 2 L Bryan Adams holds at #1 for the fifth consecutive week and tinues to build moving from #42 to #37. and is now selling A H boy is he tired! While Bryan holds tough. other would-be #1s singles! Extreme takes a ten point jump to #29, showing W S quit chasing and back down. R.E.M. moves from #28 to #25 signs of another major smash for them. And just like a Rap K T S S and is now requesting. Former Wildcard Bonnie Raitt con- record. Metallica debuts at #44. with huge single sales! A E E A R TIS T TITL E L A B E L C O M M E N T S G E E 1 BRYAN ADAMS (EVERYTHING 1 DO) A&M/M. Creek 1567 From #3 Lp 131 121 J JEFF & F PRINCE SUMMERTIME Jive 1465 Solid seller 4 3 LENNY KRAVITZ IT AIN'T OVER... Virgin 98795 Leading Top 25 Lp 7 5 AMY GRANT EVERY HEARTBEAT A&M 1557-4 Lp back in the Top 10 5 CORINA TEMPTATION Atco 98775 Steady 8 BOYZ II MEN MOTO WNPHILLY Motown 2090 From #4 Lp 13 HI-FIVE CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER.. Jive/RCA 1445 Big increases 9 ROXETTE FADING LIKE A FLO WER EMI 50355 Solid 11 PAULA ABDUL THE PROMISE... CaptNirgin 4-98752 Video on MTV 12 111 10 THE KLF 3 AM ETERNAL Arista 2231 Smash 15 C & C MUSIC FACTORY THINGS THAT MAKE... Columbia 73687 Steady increases 1171 CATHY DENNIS TOO MANY WALLS Poly/PLG 867134-4 Solid at radio 16 15 SCORPIONS WIND OF CHANGE Mercury 868-180 From Top 30 Lp 1291 121 COLOR ME BADD I ADORE MI AMOR Giant 4-19204 From Top 10 Lp 1181 16 SEAL CRAZY Sire/VVB 19298 Lp Top 30 now 23 NATALIE COLE UNFORGETTABLE Elektra 64875 From the #1 Lp 1191 MICHAEL BOLTON TIME. LOVE... Columbia 73889 Leading Top 15 Lp [221 ROD STEWART THE MOTO WN SONG Warner Bros 19322 From platinum Lp MARKY MARK GOOD VIBRATIONS Inter/EW 98764 Lp in the Top 50 now 20 ESCAPE CLUB I'LL BE THERE Atlantic 4-87683 Falling now 1261 HEAVY D & THE BOYZ NOW THAT WE FOUND Uptown/MCA 54088 Leading Top 20 Lp 2 RYTHM SYNDICATE PASSIO N. Impact 54046 Falling now 27 251 FIREHOUSE LOVE OF A LIFETIME Epic 73771 From go'd Lp 20 BLACK CRO WES HARD TO HANDLE Def American 19245 Peaked 37 R EM. SHINY HAPPY PEOPLE Wamer Bros 19242 Breaking fast (Based on a co mbination of sales and airplay) 4 HITS August 19, 1991 VU' i .\ T e: rÀ.,•1 le 171'8 2. - 11.iwunpo•is 110 •.o/(i.‘ 4 .11-autipeli , .e- ., .1/ (-Vellib,‘, S 11 I; I l'i'ebili,dt •,1 -4:+(tHe 1k.• )'ork Don't get even, get mad. Iti/d /11 . Ite(1 i;Ith f 3/1 -J 1.*r.eol/ r'hme/. Ill '.r • .".( ' e r ,../ 1„11, ‘(' 2/ 1%) .!"7 . 27 /,./(1‘. _`<) smash album The .Shu: Cages T 1? - 1 Prod/teed by II ugl; Patighron1Se. ;• 11, ,./. it-,,,Hfi//), I /, ,,/ • i moh' ,0 IIITS TOP FIF T Y SI1N G LJS 2 L T A H W S I K T S • w W A E E G E E A R TIS T TITL E L A B E L C O M M E N T S O K K r6i 1231 Ep JESUS JONES RIGHT HERE. RIGHT... SBK 7345 Peaked 1341 3RD BASS POP GOES THE WEASEL DJ/Col 73728 Big single sales LIEU CHER LOVE AND... Geffen 19023 Falling now 111111 NELSON ONLY TIME WILL TELL DGC 19014 Steady 30 GUNS N' ROSES YOU COULD BE MINE Geffen 19039 Sales 35 33 Ell JOMANDA GOT A LOVE FOR YOU Big Beat/Atl 98731 Steady gains 40 1361 El WHITNEY HOUSTON MY NAME IS NOT SUSAN Arista 2259 Steady EE1 NATURAL SELECTION DO ANYTHING East/West 98724 Dance • El] ROBBIE NEVIL JUST LIKE YOU EMI 50356 Building at Top 40 • 40 Ezi HUEY LEWIS HIT ME LIKE A ... EMI 50364 Growing at Top 40 r--i- 44 Q3 KARYN WHITE ROMANTIC Warner Bros 19319 Tons of radio 45 42 BONNIE RAITT SOMETHING TO TALK... Capitol 44724 From #2 Lp 24 1341 El] PAULA ABDUL RUSH RUSH CaptNirgin 98828 Over [491 ED EXTREME HOLE HEARTED A&M 1564 Hot on MTV 44 1411 40 TOM PETTY LEARNING TO FLY MCA 54124 Tour commencing soon ool 45 41 AARON NEVILLE EVERYBODY PLAYS.. A&M 1563 Developing at radio EMF UNBELIEVABLE EMI 50350 Over UB40 HERE I AM Virgin 4-99141 Falling 44 METALUCA ENTER SANDMAN Elektra 94-64857 Hot sales 1- 1 45 TONY TERRY WITH YOU Epic 73867 Developing Top 40 DESMOND CHILD LOVE ON A ROOFTOP Elektra 64883 Falling 43 47 TARA KEMP PIECE OF MY HEART Giant 4-19364 Peaked MARTIKA LOVE THY WILL Columbia 73853 From forthcoming Lp LUTHER VANDROSS DONT WANT TO.. Epic 73879 Hot follow-up 50 .38 SPECIAL THE SOUND OF Charisma 91640 Building at Top 40 (Based on a combination of sales and airplay) V \Nll t IANIS BAD CO MPANY (Atco) LA'S (London/PLG) NEXT UP El0F3 SF GFFI CHESNEY HA WKES (Chrysalis) YOUN G MC (Capitol) 6 HITS August 19, 1991 BREAKING OUT OF THE HOOD." TEVIN CAM) BELL "Just Ask Me Ton-he new gl 4.