EST Gee’s
CMG/
Warlike/
Interscope mixtape tops
Apple Music this Flipover Friday, while the Top 10 at
iTunes is jammed with indie releases.
The Louisville rapper’s
Bigger Than Life or Death, released Wednesday, is #1 at Apple Music and #26 at iTunes, while his track featuring
Lil Baby,
42 Dugg &
Rylo Rodriguez, “5500 Degrees,” is #5 at Apple Music songs.
Only two major-label releases sit in the Top 10 at iTunes albums:
Leon Bridges’ third album,
Gold-Diggers Sound (
Columbia), at #3, and
Foo Fighters’ deep dive into disco,
Dee Gees/
Hail Satin (
Roswell/
RCA), at #9.
Out of the gate, the eighth album from
mike.,
the highs. (
4THEHOMIES/
Ditto), opens at #1 ahead of
Jackson Browne’s first studio album in nearly seven years,
Downhill From Everywhere (
Inside).
The second album from Mississippi blues guitarist
Christone “Kingfish” Ingram,
662 (
Alligator), digs in at #5;
Tribl & Maverick City Music drum up #6 with
Tribl I (
Tribl); and
Descendents’
9th & Walnut (
Epitaph)—a nod to an intersection in Long Beach—parks at #7. Featuring the band's "classic" lineup, it unleashes 18 songs written between 1977 and 1981.
David Crosby takes time away from his very active Twitter account to release
For Free (
Three Blind Mice/
BMG), which drops in at #8;
Shane & Shane’s
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Vol. 1 (
Wellhouse) is #10.
iTunes songs has a new #1:
Jason Aldean &
Carrie Underwood’s “If I Didn’t Love You” (
Macon Music/
This Is Hit/
Broken Bow).
Noise Machine &
Blue-Eyed-Darkness’ “Numb” (
Noise Machine) opens at #6.
Anyone expecting to see a new album from
Kanye West is going to have to wait;
Donda has not yet been released.
