Friday, September 10, 2021
Kacey Musgraves' follow-up to her
Grammy-winning
Golden Hour, a 20-year-old
Aaliyah album making its online debut, and the first full-length from
Baby Keem lead the new arrivals at
iTunes and
Apple Music this flipover Friday.
Aaliyah’s self-titled third album for
Blackground, originally released in 2001, and Musgraves'
star-crossed (
Mercury Nashville/
Interscope) are the only two collections debuting in the Top 20 in both sales and streaming.
Aaliyah is #1 at iTunes, one slot ahead of Musgraves, whose
star-crossed is #15 at Apple Music.
Aaliyah is #19 on the streaming chart.
Baby Keem’s
The Melodic Blue (
Columbia) is the top new arrival at Apple Music, coming in at #6, ahead of
J Balvin’s
JOSE (
Universal Latin) at #12.
Back on the sales side,
Barlow & Bear’s self-released
The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical is #3 and
Jeremy Camp’s
When You Speak (
Sparrow/
Capitol CMG) chimes in at #4.
The Metallica Blacklist (
Blackened), featuring 53 covers of songs from the band’s “black album,” opens at #6.
Yebba, the Memphis singer heard on
Drake’s
Certified Lover Boy, opens at #7 with her debut,
Dawn (
RCA).
AZ’s
Doe or Die II (
Quiet Money) is #8.
Mitchell Tenpenny’s eight-song EP
Midtown Diaries (
River House/
Sony) parks at #9 and
Endless Praise from
Charity Gayle is #10.
At songs,
YG/Interscope's
Lisa has two songs in the Top 10: “LALISA” at #2 and "MONEY" at #9.
Sam Hunt’s “23” (MCA Nashville) is #7.