Columbia’s
Adele, having previously scored the year’s biggest debut, logs another week at #1 on the
HITS Top 50 with
30. The acclaimed set posts 284k in week two, surpassing 1m in total activity. Fellow record-setter and market-leader
Taylor Swift follows with
Red (Taylor’s Version) (
Republic), which earns 102k in its third week. The megastars’ blockbuster albums are jointly responsible for 2m units in the last three weeks.
Incredibly, Swift has four other titles in the Top 50, three of which have moved up in position and activity:
evermore (#21, +22%),
Lover (#29, +12%) and
Fearless (Taylor’s Version) (#30, +12%).
Holiday titles are also flying up the chart like Santa’s reindeer, led by
Michael Bublé’s
Christmas (
Reprise), which leaps to #3 with 59k.
Nat King Cole’s
Christmas Song (
Capitol) enters the Top 10 for the first time this year, while a handful of other holiday classics breach the Top 20.
The Beatles’
non-holiday classic
Let It Be (Capitol), the making of which is the subject of
Peter Jackson’s much-discussed docuseries on
Disney+, soars to #20 as folks who spent Thanksgiving weekend bingeing the show return to both this album and
Abbey Road (#38) with new perspective.
Streeting this week are projects from
Right Hand/
RCA’s
Khalid, Columbia’s
Polo G,
CMG/
Warlike/
Interscope’s
EST Gee and
Flawless/RCA’s
Nardo Wick.
Now if you'll excuse us, we're gonna go dig a pony. Peep the chart
here.
