FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES & APPLE MUSIC

Only the Strong Survive (Columbia), Bruce Springsteen’s deep dive into the soul music of the 1960s and '70s, commandeers the #1 slot at iTunes this Flipover Friday. Meanwhile, an Afrobeats superstar has the lone new arrival in the Top 15 in sales and streams.

More Love, Less Ego (Starboy/RCA), the fifth studio album from Nigeria’s Wizkid, is the top new arrival at Apple Music (#5) while sliding in at #11 at iTunes.

Other sets opening in the Top 30 on both lists are NasKing’s Disease III (Mass Appeal/The Orchard) (#2 at iTunes, #25 Apple Music), Rauw Alejandro’s Saturno (Sony Latin) (#12 at Apple Music, #20 iTunes) and GloRilla’s Anyways, Life’s Great… (CMG/Interscope) (#15 at Apple Music, #25 iTunes).

The deluxe edition of Louis Tomlinson’s Faith in the Future (78/BMG) is #3 at iTunes, Brantley Gilbert’s So Help Me God (BMLG) bows at #5 and Randy Houser’s Note to Self (Magnolia) writes in at #6. Larkin Poe’s Blood Harmony (Tricki-Woo) chimes in at #8.

A deluxe collection of Guns N’ Roses' two Use Your Illusion (Geffen) albums from 1991, with two additional concert recordings, is welcomed at #9.

PRE-GRAMMY GALA GOES GAGA FOR GERSON
Jody will be the center of attention at Clive's shindig. (12/18a)
ON THE COVER:
BILLIE EILISH
A star upon the highest bough (12/19a)
NOISEMAKERS:
A HOLIDAY TREAT
Something for their stockings (12/18a)
SUPREME COURT SETS 1/10 HEARING ON TIKTOK BAN
How will SCOTUS rule? (12/19a)
THE HIP-HOP CONUNDRUM
Grammy being Grammy (12/19a)
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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