Harry Styles takes #1 on the HITS Top 50 with the year's biggest debut, Harry's House. The Columbia set opens with 515k as Styles crushes the one-week vinyl sales record with an expected 170-175k. Taylor Swift previously held the title with 114k for Red (Taylor's Version). Pure sales contributed 320k to the Harry's House total.
Styles also premiered with massive global numbers at Spotify, landing in the all-time Top 5 with more than 400m first-week streams. His Love on Tour trek broke Ticketmaster this week as the phenom upped the ante with 15 dates apiece at The Forum and Madison Square Garden.
Repeating at #2, Bad Bunny's Un Verano Sin Ti (Rimas) moves an incredible 153k units in its third week. Kendrick Lamar's Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers (pgLang/TDE/Aftermath/Interscope) slides to #3 with 92k.
Warner's Zach Bryan scores the year's biggest country opening with his debut studio album, American Heartbreak. The 34-track set enters at #5 with 70k. SEA contributed 89% of Bryan's first-week total.
Peep the full chart here. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have a long weekend of Top Gun and Obi-Wan Kenobi to consume—we haven't said that since 1986.
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