NEW RELEASE: ARI SHINES BRIGHT

Republic's Ariana Grande will debut at #1 on this week's HITS Top 50 as eternal sunshine heads toward a 165k-185k opening, which would be the biggest of 2024.

This sets up eternal sunshine to meet or exceed the first-week activity of Grande’s previous album, Positions, which opened with 174k in 2020. On Saturday morning (3/9), Spotify confirmed that eternal sunshine, released on 3/8, had earned the most single-day streams for an album on its opening day in 2024 thus far. Grande's set will also give House Lipman a third consecutive week at #1. Monte plans to celebrate with a trip to Montauk.

Republic upped the ante Sunday with the release of a deluxe edition that includes four additional songs: “supernatural” f/Troye Sivan, “imperfect for you” (acoustic), “true story” and the previously released “yes, and?” f/Mariah Carey. Ari capped off the day with an appearance on the Oscars.

Meanwhile, the single "we can't be friends (wait for your love)" is sitting at #1 on the Spotify global chart as of Monday (3/11).

Ye & Ty Dolla $ign's Vultures 2, originally slated to arrive on 3/8, has become something of a wild card; judging by the sloppy rollout of Vultures 1, who knows when part two might drop?

Stay tuned for projections later in the week for new titles by Epic's Judas Priest and Dirty Hit's Bleachers.

Ariana Grande (Republic): 165k-185k

On Friday, March 8, Ariana Grande's eternal sunshine became Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day in 2024 so far. pic.twitter.com/4kPQeyt9et

— Spotify (@Spotify) March 9, 2024