The Lockdown Sessions (
Interscope),
Elton John’s collection of duets recorded while the pandemic had everyone confined to their homes, takes the early lead at iTunes this Flipover Friday. Plenty of familiar names, including another with an Interscope release, follow Sir Elton’s latest.
Lana Del Rey’s
Blue Banisters (
Interscope) is one of two entries making it into the Top 20 at iTunes—it’s #2—and at
Apple Music (#17). The other is
Gucci Mane’s
So Icy Boyz (
1017 Global/
Atlantic), which is #6 in sales and #10 in streams.
Back at iTunes,
Duran Duran’s
Future Past (
Tape Modern/
BMG) is presently #3;
Starset’s
Horizons (
Fearless) rises to #4; and
Dream Theater’s
A View From the Top of the World (
Ytse James/
InsideOut) looks down from #5.
Rufus Du Soul’s
Surrender (
Rose Avenue/
Reprise) is #9 at iTunes and cracks the Top 30 at Apple Music.
Every Time I Die’s
Radical and the Super Deluxe edition of
The Rolling Stones’
Tattoo You are just outside the Top 10 along with new titles from
Pistol Annies,
Jesse James Decker and
My Morning Jacket.
At iTunes songs, “Big Subwoofer” (
Def Jam) from
Snoop Dogg’s supergroup
Mount Westmore is new at #9.