21 SAVAGE, UCHIS LEAD A FRESH TOP 50

Slaughter Gang/Epic's 21 Savage scores his fourth consecutive #1 debut on the HITS Top 50 with american dream. Savage's third album opens with 130k following chart-topping collaboration projects with Metro Boomin (Savage Mode II) and Drake (Her Loss).

After a lackluster year for hip-hop in 2023, Savage puts rap on the board early in 2024, scoring its first #1 bow.

Geffen's Kali Uchis arrives at #2 with ORQUÍDEAS (ORCHIDS), which opens with 67k. The mostly Spanish-language project is Uchis' biggest debut yet.

Aside from SZA's SOS (TDE/RCA) at #9, House Lipman rounds out the rest of the Top 10 with seven albums. Big Loud/Mercury/Republic's Morgan Wallen is the bellwether of the Republic block at #3, leading sets by Drake, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Noah Kahan and ... wait for it ... more Swift. Republic also lands a top bow courtesy of Kid Cudi, who premieres at #13 with INSANO.

Streeting this week are new titles from Reprise's Green Day and BMG's Lil Dicky and a deluxe version of Dolly Parton's ROCKSTAR (which, from our POV, was pretty dang deluxe in the first place). See the full chart here.

We're now a mere seven days from Grammy week. If you take a photo with a HITS nerd at a party, you may be rewarded with seven years of bad puns. Oh, wait, that'll happen regardless. Nevermind.

THE HITS LIST TURKEY TROT
...with all the trimmings (11/22a)
AN AWARD-WINNING CMA GALLERY
Cowboy hats and funny caps (11/21a)
NEAR TRUTHS: WITCHING HOUR
It's not easy being green. (11/21a)
NEAR TRUTHS: REALIGNMENT AND RECOGNITION
Underscoring the year's biggest stories (11/19a)
NEAR TRUTHS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Nervous time in the music biz and beyond. (11/16a)
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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