Taylor Swift earns an eighth non-consecutive week at #1 on the HITS Top 50 as her folklore (Republic) returns to the top of the chart. This week—three months after its release—the album got a sales boost from another round of autographed copies, lifting it to 81k (+184%). It also became the first and only 2020 album (so far) to cross the 1m threshold in pure sales; folklore now ranks at #3 in activity for the year. Swift’s eighth week at #1 marks the most non-consecutive weeks atop the chart since Drake’s Views in 2016.
K-Pop collective
NCT scores the second-biggest debut with
Resonance Pt. 1: The 2nd Album (
SM/
Capitol). Dropped in the middle of last week, the set from the 23-member supergroup (which includes the lads of
NCT 127) lands at #6 with 35k in its first full week.
Some familiar faces from
Warner’s legendary catalog occupy the Top 20.
Tom Petty enters at #6 with his long-awaited reissue,
Wildflowers & All the Rest;
Fleetwood Mac’s
Rumours moves to #14 following a viral
TikTok campaign that reignited their hit “Dreams”; and
The Eagles bow at #16 with the newly minted
Live From the Forum MMXVIII (
Rhino). We miss the Ski Lodge.
Sturgill Simpson rounds out this week’s Top 20 debuts as his surprise bluegrass offering,
Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 (
Thirty Tigers), mows its way to #18.
Dig into the data your own damn self by surfing over to our
Top 50 chart.
Streeting this week are new projects from
Columbia’s
Bruce Springsteen,
Mass Appeal/Def Jam’s
Dave East,
Alamo’s
Comethazine and a deluxe package from
River House/
Columbia Nashville’s
Luke Combs. In other news, please fucking vote.
