Beyoncé’s COWBOY CARTER (Parkwood/Columbia) opens at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with the biggest debut of the year, posting 418k. Of that total, 170k is attributable to sales, which includes assorted vinyl and boxed sets. The album was also powered by 300m+ streams—the most first-week streams by a female artist since Taylor Swift’s 1989 (Taylor’s Version) in October 2023. COWBOY CARTER is also the Sony superstar’s biggest bow since her 2016 blockbuster, Lemonade.
Future & Metro Boomin log 134k in their second week as WE DON’T TRUST YOU (Boominati/Freebandz/Republic/Epic) continues to dominate DSPs. The album’s sequel, meanwhile, is only a week away.
HYBE’s j-hope scores a Top 10 debut with Hope on the Street Vol. 1 (BIGHIT/ Geffen), at #6.
House Lipman has 10 titles in the Top 20.
Streeting this week are new releases by Interscope’s J. Cole, Night Street/Warner’s Benson Boone, Columbia’s Vampire Weekend, RCA’s Bryson Tiller, Nonesuch’s The Black Keys, Republic’s Conan Gray, The Wave Music Group/Capitol’s Young Miko, Warner’s NLE Choppa, CMG/Interscope’s GloRilla, BIGHIT/Republic’s TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Epic’s Tori Kelly, MCA Nashville's Sam Hunt, RCA Nashville's Nate Smith, Big Loud's Maggie Rose and Kemosabe/ RCA’s Doja Cat, who delivers the deluxe Scarlet 2 CLAUDE.
See the complete Top 50 here.
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