Friday, September 17, 2021
Drake’s blockbuster
Certified Lover Boy (
OVO/
Republic) is enjoying a second week at #1 on the
HITS Top 50. The 6-God’s sixth studio album earned 233k in week two, following a record-setting opening week in which
CLB shattered streaming records and scored the year’s biggest debut. In just two weeks of activity,
CLB has already earned north of 1 billion U.S. streams.
Kanye West’s
Donda (
G.O.O.D./
Def Jam) remains at #2 in its third week with 80k.
The top debut belongs to
Kacey Musgraves’
star-crossed (
Interscope/
MCA Nashville). Her new set, the follow-up to 2019
Grammy Album of the Year
Golden Hour, scores the biggest opening of Musgraves' career at #3 with 73k.
Rising hip-hop star
Baby Keem also lands a Top 5 bow with his debut album,
The Melodic Blue (
pgLang/
Columbia), which bows at #4 with 54k.
Geffen’s
Olivia Rodrigo rounds out the Top 5 with
SOUR.
Further down the chart, self-titled re-releases from
Metallica (
Blackened) and
Aaliyah (
Blackground/
EMPIRE) appear at #10 and #12, respectively.
The chart’s greatest gainers are
Glass Animals, who dropped a deluxe version of
Dreamland (
Wolf Tone/Republic), and
Walker Hayes’
Country Stuff (
Monument), led by the
Applebee's anthem “Fancy Like,” which notched its 11th consecutive week at #1 on our Country Song Streams chart.
Streeting this week are titles from Columbia’s
Lil Nas X,
Big Machine’s
Carly Pearce and
Since '
93/
RCA’s
Tems. Now we must return to
Twitter so we can read more about swollen balls.
See the
full chart here.