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FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES AND APPLE MUSIC

Country music is having a pleasant morning with three of the four top titles at iTunes on this flipover Friday. The leader, BMLG’s Thomas Rhett, is also doing something rarely seen at Apple Music.

Rhett’s Life Changes, his third album, is #1 at iTunes and in the Top 25 at Apple Music, where it is the week’s highest charting full-length release. It is the only country album in the Top 100 at the streaming service as well.

Back at iTunes, The National’s seventh album Sleep Well Beast (4AD) is #2 followed by two country albums: Dustin Lynch’s Current Mood (Broken Bow) at #3 and Kip Moore’s Slowheart (MCA Nashville).

Jack Johnson’s first album since 2013, All the Light Above It Too (Brushfire/Republic) is #5. The third album from ODESZA, A Moment Apart (Foreign Family/Counter), comes in at #6.

Tori Amos' first album in more than three years—and 15th overall— Native Invader (Decca) is #7. Southern Blood (Rounder) , the final album from Gregg Allman, who died in May, is #8. Rhino’s 20-song Twin Peaks soundtrack is #9.

Neil Young’s Hitchhiker (Reprise), Toby Keith’s The Bus Songs (Show Dog) and Jonny Lang’s Signs (Concord) are just outside the Top 10.

The songs chart at iTunes has five new tracks in the Top 10.

Sam Smith’s new one, “Too Good at Goodbyes” (Capitol), climbs to #1 withKane Brown f/Lauren Alaina’s “Found You” (RCA Nashville) at #2. Taylor Swift's Labor Day release “… Ready for It?” (Big Machine) is #4. ZAYN f/Sia’s “Dusk Till Dawn” (RCA) sees daylight at #5with Kelly Clarkson’s first release for Atlantic, “Love So Soft,” at #6.

At Apple Music, G Herbo’s Humble Beast (Machine/150 Dream Team) is #20 with just four of its 15 tracks released.

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