RCA’s Bryson Tiller wakes up to a sunny flipover Friday while the iTunes charts find BLACKPINK, Mariah Carey and Demi Lovato angling for #1s.
Tiller’s third album, ANNIVERSARY (RCA) is #1 at Apple Music while three songs from the set are Top 10 streamers: “Years Go By,” “Always Forever” and “Outta Time” f/Drake. His album is #8 at where Carey’s collection of unreleased songs, B-sides and live recordings, The Rarities (Columbia) is #1.
Right behind her is BLACKPINK’s debut full-length The Album (YG/Interscope) at #2. The K-Pop girl group is Top at iTunes songs with “Lovesick Girls” #6; Lovato has the top newcomer, “Still Have Me” (Island), which is #2.
Back at iTunes albums where the whole Top 9 is rookies, the solo debut from Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor, CMFT (Roadrunner), rolls in at #3.
Dolly Parton’s first holiday album in 30 years, A Holly Dolly Christmas (Butterfly/12 Tone), decks the hall at #4, one slot ahead of Queen + Adam Lambert’s Live Around the World (Miracle/Hollywood) at #5. Bon Jovi’s topical look at the year, 2020 (Island), is #6.
21 Savage & Metro Boomin’s Savage Mode II (Slaughter Gang/Epic), the follow-up to their 2017 collab, takes #7 and Louis Tomlinson’s Walls (78 Productions/Syco) holds down #9.
On the streaming side, new. arrivals in the Top 10 are Porte Diferente’s Es Diferente (Rancho Humilde) #7 and Giveon’s four-song EP When It’s All Said and Done (Epic)#8.
Lee Brice rounds out the Top 10 at iTunes songs with “One of Them Girls”(Curb).
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