FLIPOVER FRIDAY: NEW ARRIVALS AT iTUNES & APPLE MUSIC

You can’t get any higher than #1, which is where Chris Stapleton’s fifth solo album sits at iTunes this Flipover Friday. Rick Ross & Meek Mill’s collab opens in the Top 10 at iTunes and Apple Music.

Besides topping the iTunes album chart, Stapleton’s Higher (Mercury Nashville) is also in the Top 30 at Apple Music.

Ross & Mill’s Too Good To Be True (Maybach/gamma.) follows Stapleton at #2, driving in at #9 at Apple Music. YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Decided 2 (NBA/Motown) is the top new arrival at Apple Music, starting at #4. It’s also Top 30 on the sales side.

AJR’s fifth full-length album, The Maybe Man (Mercury/Republic), secures the #3 slot, while Stray Kids’ eight-song ROCK-STAR (JYP) drops in at #4. Chris Brown’s 11:11 (RCA) is #8.

The Beatles’ 1967-1970 (Apple/Capitol/UMe), aka The Blue Album—expanded to 37 songs, including the new “Now and Then”—gets back to #7. The 38-song version of The Beatles’ 1962-1966 (Apple/Capitol/UMe), aka The Red Album, feels fine at #11. The compilations were originally released in 1973.

There are four versions of Jung Kook’s GOLDEN in the Top 10 pushing down new titles by Zac Brown Band and Brandy.

CMA Awards performers and winners, along with variations on Jung Kook’s “Standing Next to You,” fill the Top 12 at iTunes songs, making Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” (Warner) the top new arrival, at #13.