PETTY VS. PUMP VS.? THE FIGHT FOR #1 IS A GREAT WIDE OPEN

While the race for #1 remains murky, at the moment we may be looking at a showdown between Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' Greatest Hits and Lil Pump's self-titled debut (Warner Bros.). Petty's death on 10/2 sparked the beginning of a rally at digital that continues (the set landed at #2 on our most recent SPS chart with 74k), and the filling of orders for physical product this week adds to his surging total, which, like Pump's, looks to be in the 45-50k ballpark.

Just behind these two, a number of titles appear to be in contention, including Caroline's NF, Republic's Post Malone (42k on our last SPS chart) and Atlantic's Lil Uzi Vert (38k on the last chart) most of which are in the 40-45k region now, and possibly RCA Nashville/Zone 4's Kane Brown and Highbridge/Atlantic's A Boogie With a Hoodie (about 61k on the last chart).

With all these titles so close, it doesn't take much special attention to wrangle the numbers sufficient for an advantage. Stay tuned for more numbers soon.