CHART STORY: REPUBLIC'S TRIO AND COLUMBIA'S KID
Republic superstar Ariana Grande earns a second consecutive week at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with Positions. Her sixth studio album earns 82k in week two, giving the House of Lipman its 18th chart-topper of the year.
Labelmate Pop Smoke, whose streaming-dominant album Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon (Victor Victor) has yet to leave the Top 5 since release, holds firm at #2. A new mixtape from NAV gives Republic three of the Top 5 albums, as Emergency Tsunami (XO) surfs to #5 in its debut week.
Rising Columbia hip-hop talent The Kid LAROI leaps to #3 with a deluxe digital version of his mixtape, F*ck Love (Savage), which adds seven more tracks to the project. The Aussie native’s project posts 52k.
CMA favorite Luke Combs is locked inside the Top 5 three weeks out from the deluxe add-on to his Album of the Year winner, What You See Is What You Get. The River House/Columbia Nashville set repeats at #4 with 36k.
Big batches of vinyl sales increase Taylor Swift and Machine Gun Kelly’s activity. Swift’s folklore (Republic) re-emerges in the Top 10 with a 56% increase, while MGK jumps to #12 with Tickets to My Downfall (Bad Boy/Interscope).
Streeting this week are albums from Columbia’s AC/DC, Epic’s Future & Lil Uzi Vert, Mercury Nashville’s Chris Stapleton, Def Jam’s 2 Chainz, Decca/Sugar’s Andrea Bocelli and RCA’s Pentatonix.
How are you getting ready for the holidays? We put on our winter weight in May, so everything now is extra credit.
