Billie Eilish spends a second consecutive week at #1 on the
HITS Top 50 with her sophomore set,
Happier Than Ever. The
Darkroom/
Interscope album moved 82k units in week two, powered by 64m streams, a 40% drop in streaming activity (the average second-week drop this year for new releases in the Top 50 is 52%). Eilish’s week-two DSP action brings the album’s total streams to 668m, while
Happier’s activity to date reaches 730k.
With
Kanye West's
Donda (
G.O.O.D./Def Jam) now slated for 8/20 (at the earliest), Billie finds herself in a strong position for a third week at #1 next week.
Legendary MC
Nas lands the top debut with
King’s Disease II (
Mass Appeal) as the sequel to his
Grammy-winning 2020 set opens at #3 with 57k.
Eilish isn’t the only teen sensation in the upper reaches of the chart:
Olivia Rodrigo’s
SOUR (
Geffen) returns to #2, while
The Kid LAROI’s
F*ck Love mixtape (
Columbia) slides to #4.
Kemosabe/
RCA’s
Doja Cat (a wizened 25) repeats at #5.
A year behind schedule (but who’s counting?), the deluxe 50th anniversary release of
George Harrison’s beloved
All Things Must Pass (
Capitol)—which includes various physical offerings, new demos and upgraded audio—pushes the
Beatle’s milestone triple-LP to #8, with 28k.
RCA Nashville’s
Chris Young and Columbia’s
Barbra Streisand both score Top 20 bows with new projects.
Finally, streeting this week are new titles from
Warner Music Nashville’s
Dan + Shay,
Island’s
The Killers,
Alamo/Columbia’s
blackbear,
EMPIRE’s
Iggy Azalea and
Jennifer Hudson’s
RESPECT soundtrack via
Epic.
