Island’s
Sabrina Carpenter returns to #1 on this week’s
HITS Top 50 with
Short n’ Sweet. Earning significant AOTY
Grammy buzz, the set posts 100k in its sixth week. This is Carpenter’s fourth chart-topping week—only
Taylor Swift’s
THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (
Republic) has spent more weeks at #1 this year (17, since you asked).
Imran Majid and
Justin Eshak’s
Island goes 1-2, with
Chappell Roan’s
The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess holding onto the runner-up spot. Roan’s album reached a new sales peak last week, surpassing 100k units for the first time thanks to her one-year-anniversary vinyl.
Rise and Fall logs 63k this week.
Following last week’s #1 bow,
Freebandz/
Epic’s
Future moves to #3 with
MIXTAPE PLUTO. Big Loud/
Mercury/Republic’s
Morgan Wallen and
Darkroom/
Interscope’s
Billie Eilish round out the Top 5.
Lady Gaga lands the week’s top new entry at #15 with
Harlequin (Interscope), a companion album to the
Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack. Gaga’s project opened with 26k, making it the week’s #1 jazz album (among the numbers assayed by the diva are
Harold Arlen's 1932 "I've Got the World on a String," also recorded by
Louis Armstrong,
Frank Sinatra and
Ella Fitzgerald, among many others). It likewise had the biggest opening day ever on
Spotify for a jazz set. Physical sales, available exclusively via D2C, accounted for 16k of the total. Traditional retail for
Harlequin rolls out on 10/11.
Streeting this week are new titles by
WMG’s
Coldplay,
SCMG/
Capitol’s
Toosii,
Columbia’s
Leon Bridges,
Sony Nashville’s
Nate Smith,
Back Blocks/
EMI Nashville’s
Tucker Wetmore, Mercury’s
James Bay and
OYOY/Interscope’s
FINNEAS, as well as the
Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack (
Water Tower/Interscope) and an
eternal sunshine deluxe from Republic’s
Ariana Grande.
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