Friday, September 10, 2021
Drake's
Certified Lover Boy (
OVO/
Republic) opens at #1 on the
HITS Top 50 with the biggest first week total of the year: 604k. The blockbuster album earned around 700m first-week streams, the most since his 2018 record-setter,
Scorpion.
In its opening day,
CLB broke the all-time record at both
Apple Music and
Spotify for the most global album streams in 24 hours.
Kanye West's
Donda (
G.O.O.D./
Def Jam) moves to #2. It posts 146k in its second week.
Other top debuts include
Imagine Dragons'
Mercury - Act I (
KIDinaKORNER/
Interscope) at #9 and
Lady Gaga's remix album,
Dawn of Chromatica (Interscope), which vaults the project to #20.
See the
full chart here. Now if you'll excuse us, we have to prepare our loved ones for the consumption of 20+ hours of football this weekend.