Ariana Grande has to like the position she finds herself in this Flipover Friday; her latest
Republic full-length is #1 at
iTunes and #2 at
Apple Music while six of the album’s songs are in the Top 20 on the streaming side.
Grande’s
Positions is her sixth album, the follow-up to 2019’s
Thank U, Next. Led at Apple Music by the title track, “34+35," “shut up” and three other cuts are charging into the Top 20.
Keeping Ari out of the top slot of the streaming chart is
Trippie Redd’s
Pegasus (
1400/
TenThousand Projects), which is #14 at iTunes.
Four other new arrivals are in the Top 10 at iTunes and the Top 25 at Apple Music:
Sam Smith’s third album,
Love Goes (
Capitol), is #2 in sales and #22 in streams;
Busta Rhymes’
Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God (
Conglomerate/
Empire), a sequel to his 1998 album, is #3 at iTunes and #20 at Apple Music; the debut from R&B singer
Queen Naija,
misunderstood (Capitol), is Top 10 on both sides—#7 at iTunes and #5 at Apple Music—as is
Wizkid’s
Made in Lagos (
Starboy/
RCA), at #9 and #7.
Two holiday releases open in the Top 10 at iTunes—
For KING & COUNTRY’s
A Drummer Boy Christmas (
Curb/
Word) at #6 and
Meghan Trainor’s
A Very Trainor Christmas (
Honest OG/
Epic) at #8.
Two hard-rock albums occupy the middle of iTunes’ Top 10,
Bring Me the Horizon’s
Post Human: Survival Horror (
Columbia) at #4 and
Puscifer’s
Existential Reckoning (
Alchemy/
BMG) at #5, while
Cam’s second album, The Otherside (
Triple Tigers/RCA), rounds out the big 10.
At iTunes songs, the lone new title in the Top 10 is
K/DA,
Madison Beer &
(G)I-DLE’s “More” (
Riot Games), at #6.
