Republic’s
Taylor Swift returns to #1 on the
HITS Top 50 with
Midnights, which first landed on the chart in October 2022. The rollout of a deluxe edition of her 10th studio album, new vinyl and a CD sold exclusively at her
MetLife Stadium shows drove fans to consume
Midnights in multiple ways—again. It moves 283k units this week, an increase of 409%. As her massive
Eras Tour marches on, Tay once again has nine albums in the Top 50.
Speaking of massive,
Big Loud/
Mercury/Republic’s
Morgan Wallen ends his 12-consecutive-week run at #1, with
One Thing at a Time sliding to #2 on 127k. The year’s biggest album will cross 3m units in activity next week. Wallen’s sophomore set,
Dangerous: The Double Album, meanwhile, continues to reside in the Top 5.
Alamo’s
Lil Durk scores one of the year’s biggest hip-hop openings with
Almost Healed, which posts 124k—good for #3—giving him his fifth consecutive Top 3 album.
Other noteworthy activity: five country albums—from new genre stars Wallen,
Luke Combs,
Zach Bryan and
Bailey Zimmerman—hold firm in the Top 10;
Disney’s soundtrack to
The Little Mermaid rises to #20 following the film’s huge opening; and the late
Tina Turner’s greatest hits compilation re-enters at #24.
Streeting this week are new titles by
JYP/
Imperial/Republic’s
Stray Kids,
CMG/
N-Less/
Interscope’s
Moneybagg Yo,
Roswell/
RCA's
Foo Fighters,
BBR/
Stoney Creek’s
Jelly Roll,
SCMG/
Capitol’s
Toosii and Republic’s
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse soundtrack.
Is it summer yet? We haven’t been outside since March. See the
full Top 50 here.
