FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES AND APPLE MUSIC
The first album in five years from Epic’s Lamb of God and Bob Dylan’s first album of all new songs in nearly a decade are duking it out this flipover Friday for the top slot on iTunes albums.
Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) grabbed the #1 slot as the roosters were crowing on the West Coast, pushing Lamb of God to #2. With John Legend’s Bigger Love (Columbia) at #7 and Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile’s Not Our First Goat Rodeo (Sound Postings/Sony Masterworks), Sony has four of the Top 10 titles this flipover Friday.
Jason Mraz’s Look for the Good (Interrbang/BMG) is #3 followed by former American Idol contestant Gabby Barrett at #4 with Goldmine (Warner Nashville).
Neil Young’s previously unreleased 1975 recording, Homegrown (Reprise) is #5, one slot ahead of Michael Franti & Spearhead’s Work Hard and Be Nice (Boo Boo Wax/Thirty Tigers).
New Found Glory’s Forever and Ever x Infinity (Hopeless) lands at #8, just ahead of Phoebe Bridgers’ second album, Punisher (Dead Oceans) at #9.
At songs, BTS’ “Stay Gold” (Virgin) starts off at #1; J. Cole’s Tuesday release, “Snow on tha Bluff” (Dreamville/Roc Nation), is #8 and #2 at Apple Music.
Tee Grizzley has the highest debut at Apple Music as The Smartest (300) drops in at #10. Teyana Taylor’s The Album (G.O.O.D./Def Jam) is #13 followed by Pi’erre Bourne’s The Life of Pi’erre 4 (Deluxe) (Sosshouse/Interscope) at #15.
