CHART FINAL:
BIG RED HEAT
Tyler, the Creator scores a commanding #1 on this week's HITS Top 50 chart with CHROMAKOPIA, debuting with a knockout 296k for the Columbia set.
Big Red also owns the #2 spot with the bow of Halsey's The Great Impersonator. The innovative artist and songwriter notches 92k with her first album for the label.
Black River's Kelsea Ballerini also lands in the Top 5, with the opening frame of her Orchard-distribbed Patterns, which racks up nearly 55k, good for #4.
That gives Sony three in the Top 5 this week, all debuts.
Speaking of the Top 5, Island's Sabrina Carpenter (#3) and Shady/Aftermath/Interscope's Eminem (#5) round it out.
The 30th anniversary edition of Andrea Bocelli's Duets (Decca) takes a bow at #23 with nearly 26k. A new Rhino-distributed Grateful Dead volume, Dave's Picks Vol. 52: The Downs at Santa Fe, NM (9/11/83), trucks on in at #37 as the week's only other pertinent arrival. The inclusion of "Let It Grow" in that set still has Deadheads saying "whoa" more than four decades later. But so does a houseplant.
Dig into the rest of the chart here.
New releases out at press time include albums by Generation Now/Atlantic's Lil Uzi Vert, Fiction/Capitol's The Cure, Legacy's Willie Nelson and Sawgod/Columbia's Ella Langley, not to mention holiday drops from Jimmy Fallon (Republic) and Walker Hayes (Monument).
Now, if you'll excuse us, there are four days left until the election and we still have a couple of fingernails we haven't completely gnawed off.
