Springsteen Tops Charts in Britain Bruce Springsteen has still got it as far as the British are concerned. His new album, "Wrecking Ball" (Columbia), was the top-selling long-play recording in the United Kingdom last week, according to the Official Charts Company. It was the ninth time Mr. Springsteen, 62, has scored a No. 1 album in Britain, going back to "Born in the U.S.A." in 1984. The latest release is full of protest songs and working-class anthems, inspired by the recession in the United States. Though the themes of income inequality and the loss of the American Dream are familiar ones in Mr. Springsteen's work, his latest effort with the E Street Band features a wider range of sounds and studio concoctions than anything he's done in recent years, incorporating rock, Irish folk music, gospel strains and a large New-Orleans style brass section into the mix. Mr. Springsteen starts a United States tour to promote the album on March 18 in Atlanta. On Friday night, he gave a group of 1,500 invited guests and contest winners an intimate preview of this year's show when he played the Apollo Theater in Harlem to celebrate Sirius XM's 10th anniversary.