FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES AND APPLE MUSIC

Bruce Springsteen delivers the goods this Flipover Friday as Letter to You opens at #1 on iTunes albums. Luke Combs’ deluxe edition of What You See Ain’t Always What You Got (River House/Sony Nashville) is showing up big in sales and streams.

The Combs album is #2 at iTunes and Apple Music while five of iTunes’ Top 6 songs are from the Combs set, the lone intruder being Ariana Grande’s “positions,” the title track from her upcoming Republic album. Combs’ “Forever After All” is #1 at Apple Music; “positions” sits at #10.

Back at iTunes albums, where the Top 10 is all new arrivals, Mat and Savanna Shaw’s self-released Picture This captures #3, Sevendust’s Blood & Stone (Rise) spills in at #4 and Blue October’s This is What I Live For (Up-Down Brando) checks in at #5.

Gorillaz’ collection Song Machine, Season One (Warners) fires up at #6, Smith & MyersVolume 2 (Atlantic) is #7, Kari Jobe’s The Blessing (Sparrow/CCMG) is anointed #8 and Joyner LucasEvolution (Twenty Nine) is #9. Pearl Jam’s MTV Unplugged (MTV/Epic), a recording of their 1992 appearance on the show, arrives at #10.

THE HITS LIST TURKEY TROT
...with all the trimmings (11/22a)
AN AWARD-WINNING CMA GALLERY
Cowboy hats and funny caps (11/21a)
NEAR TRUTHS: WITCHING HOUR
It's not easy being green. (11/21a)
NEAR TRUTHS: REALIGNMENT AND RECOGNITION
Underscoring the year's biggest stories (11/19a)
NEAR TRUTHS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Nervous time in the music biz and beyond. (11/16a)
NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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