Island’s Sabrina Carpenter returns to No. 1 on this week’s HITS Top 50 with Short n’ Sweet. The group received significant buzz from the AOTY Grammy, reaching 100,000 in its sixth week. This is Carpenter’s fourth week topping the chart — only Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets (Republic) Oath has spent more weeks at No. 1 this year (17, since you asked).
Imran Majid and Justin Isaac’s Island won 1-2, while Chappelle Rowan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess retained second place. Rowan’s album reached a new sales peak last week, surpassing 100,000 units for the first time thanks to her first anniversary vinyl. Ups and downs recorded 63k this week.
After last week’s first bracket, Freebandz/Epic’s Future moved into third place with MIXTAPE PLUTO. Big Loud/Mercury/Republic’s Morgan Wallen and Darkroom/Interscope’s Billie Eilish rounded out the top five.
Lady Gaga has this week’s best new entry at No. 15 with Harlequin (Interscope), a companion album to the Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack. Gaga’s project opened with 26,000 tracks, making it the No. 1 jazz album of the week (among the singer’s numbers is Harold Arlen’s 1932 “I’ve Got the World on a String,” which was also recorded by Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. many others). It also had the biggest opening day ever on Spotify for a jazz group. Physical sales, available exclusively via D2C, account for 16K of the total. Harlequin’s traditional retail launch will take place on 10/11.
New titles from 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, OYOY/Interscope’s FINNEAS, plus To Joker: Folie à Deux. Soundtrack (Water Tower/Interscope) and luxurious eternal sunshine from Ariana Grande from Republic.
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