FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES AND APPLE MUSIC
Sam Smith’s The Thrill of It All pops up three times on iTunes Top 30 this flipover Friday. Naturally, the 14-track special edition of the Capitol release is #1; the clean version is #19 and the standard 10 track edition is #23. Elsewhere…
An assortment of country albums follow the current #2 album, Maroon 5’s sixth full-length, Red Pill Blues (222/Interscope). The second album from Kelsea Ballerini, Unapologetically (Black River) is #3; Blake Shelton’s Texoma Shore (Ten Point/Warner Nashville) is #4; and Lee Brice’s self-titled Curb release is #9.
The debut from last year’s America’s Got Talent winner Grace VanderWaal, Just the Beginning (SYCO/Columbia) is #5, one slot ahead of Kid Rock’s Sweet Southern Sugar (Top Dog/BMG). Online sensation Joji sees his In Tongues EP (Empire) hit #8.
The two Halloween releases continue to do well: Chris Brown Heartbreak on a Full Moon (RCA), holds at #7 while 21 Savage, Offset & Metro Boomin’s Without Warning (Slaughter Gang/Epic) is #11. The two albums are dominating Apple Music: Without Warning is #1 on the streaming albums chart and eight of its 10 tracks are in the Top 10 on the songs chart; the explicit version of Heartbreak on a Full Moon is #3 followed at #4 by the clean version.
N.E.R.D. f/Rihanna’s “Lemon” (Columbia), released Wednesday, is the top new entry on the songs chart, squeezing in at #6.
