As we noted previously, RCA's ZAYN will land at #1 on the HITS Album Sales and Sales Plus Streaming (SPS) charts with his solo bow. Let's take a look at this and the week's other debuts.

ZAYN (RCA) 120-130k album, 160-170k
K Michelle (WMG) 49-53k, 51-55k
Asking Alexandria (Sumerian) 27-28k, 28-32k
Young Thug (WMG) 22-25k, 27-30k
Joe Bonamassa (J&R) 22-25k, 24-27k
Anthony Hamilton (RCA) 20-23k, 22-25k
Amon Amarth (Metal Blade) 14-17k, 15-18k

In political news, Ted Cruz has received enthusiastic endorsements for the GOP Presidential nomination from several of his Republican colleagues, who describe him as "Somewhat preferable to that other horrible choice," "the slightly less noxious alternative" and "Our best path to... oh, god, I can't ... I just can't."