NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES AND APPLE MUSIC

Michigan rapper NF is waking up to a delightful flipover Friday as his The Search (NF Real Music/Caroline) sits at #1 at iTunes and #3 at Apple Music.

A stylistic hodgepodge follows NF at iTunes with eight other rookies in the Top. 10.

The Original Broadway Cast Recording of Anais Mitchell’s Tony winner Hadestown I (Sing It Again) hits the boards at #2; Justin Moore's Late Nights and Longnecks (BMLG/Valory Music Co.) is #3; and the third album from Icelandic rockers Of Monsters and Men, FEVER DREAM (Republic), drifts in at #4.

Casey Donahew’s eighth album, One Light Town (Almost Country) is #5 followed the fourth full-length from S-Curve's Andy Grammer, Naïve, at #6. E-40 Practice Makes Paper (Heavy on the Grind) is #8.

Metal is represented in. the Top 10 by Thy Art is Murder’s Human Target (Nuclear Blast) at #9; Burna Boy’s Thursday release, African Giant (Atlantic), caps the list at #10.

The Chainsmokers & Illenium f/Lennon Stella’s “Takeaway” (Disruptor/Columbia) and Rick Ross f/Drake’s “Gold Roses” (Epic) have made their way into the Top 15 at iTunes songs. “Gold Roses” is #18 at Apple Music.

On the album side at Apple Music, Young Dolph & Key Glock’s Dum and Dummer (Paper Route/Empire) is #2, YBN Cordae’s The Lost Boy (Atlantic) is #7 and. Yung Bans' Misunderstood (Foundation) is #8.

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