TOP 50: SABRINA'S SWEET RETURN

Island’s Sabrina Carpenter returns to #1 on this week’s HITS Top 50 with Short n’ Sweet. Earning significant AOTY Grammy buzz, the set posts 100k in its sixth week. This is Carpenter’s fourth chart-topping week—only Taylor Swift’s THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (Republic) has spent more weeks at #1 this year (17, since you asked).

Imran Majid and Justin Eshak’s Island goes 1-2, with Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess holding onto the runner-up spot. Roan’s album reached a new sales peak last week, surpassing 100k units for the first time thanks to her one-year-anniversary vinyl. Rise and Fall logs 63k this week.

Following last week’s #1 bow, Freebandz/Epic’s Future moves to #3 with MIXTAPE PLUTO. Big Loud/Mercury/Republic’s Morgan Wallen and Darkroom/ Interscope’s Billie Eilish round out the Top 5.

Lady Gaga lands the week’s top new entry at #15 with Harlequin (Interscope), a companion album to the Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack. Gaga’s project opened with 26k, making it the week’s #1 jazz album (among the numbers assayed by the diva are Harold Arlen's 1932 "I've Got the World on a String," also recorded by Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, among many others). It likewise had the biggest opening day ever on Spotify for a jazz set. Physical sales, available exclusively via D2C, accounted for 16k of the total. Traditional retail for Harlequin rolls out on 10/11.

Streeting this week are new titles by WMG’s Coldplay, SCMG/Capitol’s Toosii, Columbia’s Leon Bridges, Sony Nashville’s Nate Smith, Back Blocks/EMI Nashville’s Tucker Wetmore, Mercury’s James Bay and OYOY/Interscope’s FINNEAS, as well as the Joker: Folie à Deux soundtrack (Water Tower/Interscope) and an eternal sunshine deluxe from Republic’s Ariana Grande.

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