TOP 50: COLDPLAY'S MOON LANDING

Parlophone/Atlantic’s Coldplay bows at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with Moon Music, the British rock group’s 10th studio album. With 114k units, much of that coming from sales, the set becomes Coldplay’s first chart-topping LP since 2014. In the U.K., the rock vets posted the biggest opening in three years with 237k.

Island holds the #2 and #3 spots, respectively, with the year’s biggest pop breakouts, Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan. Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet moves 95k in its seventh week, while Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess posts 56k.

With the Island stars, two sets by Morgan Wallen and albums by Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Noah Kahan, House Lipman has seven entries in the Top 10. Monte is now asking, on a companywide Zoom, why it isn’t eight.

The week’s greatest gainers are Columbia/Sony Nashville’s Megan Moroney, who re-enters the chart at #21 with a deluxe version of Am I Okay?, and Gracie Abrams, whose The Secret of Us (Interscope) leaps to #22, up 21% as “I Love You, I’m Sorry” explodes at DSPs and socials.

Streeting this week are new titles by BBR/Republic’s Jelly Roll, Alamo’s Rod Wave, CMG/Interscope’s GloRilla, Interscope’s Xavi and Reprise’s RÜFÜS DU SOL and another revamped version of brat by Atlantic’s Charli xcx.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we need to get back to reviewing the crosstabs in swing-state polls. See the full chart here.