Justin Bieber earns his sixth consecutive #1 studio album debut (and his eighth #1 overall) with Justice (RBMG/Def Jam), which moves 158k. On Friday, Bieber announced the Triple Chucks Deluxe version of the album, which includes five more tracks. Justice also produced the biggest song of the week in “Peaches” f/Daniel Caesar & GIVĒON, which opened at #1 on our Streaming Songs chart. Bieber’s album is already north of 500k in activity to date.
At #2, Interscope’s Lana Del Rey delivers another strong debut with Chemtrails Over the Country Club. The singer/songwriter’s seventh album opens with 79k, all but 10k of that figure in pure sales—the most of any album this week. Chemtrails debuted at #1 in the U.K.
Big Loud/Republic hitmaker Morgan Wallen finally gives up the top spot after a 10-week run; Dangerous: The Double Album moves to #3 with 66k.
Streeting this week are new arrivals from Alamo/Geffen/Interscope’s Rod Wave, Capitol Nashville’s Carrie Underwood, NF Real Music/Virgin’s NF, S-Curve’s AJR, RECORDS/Columbia’s 24kGoldn, friends keep secrets/Interscope’s benny blanco, Homemade/10K Projects’ Peach Tree Rascals, Warner’s Ali Gatie and UMLE/Republic’s Karol G.
Now, please excuse us while we mourn our busted brackets. We had Abilene Christian going all the way.
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