TOP 50: LIL BABY BOOMS TO #1

Lil Baby opens at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with his third album, It’s Only Me (Quality Control/Wolfpack/Motown). Continuing the momentum from his sophomore album, My Turn, the activity champ of 2020, Baby has now scored his biggest debut yet, posting 213k. The Atlanta rap phenom’s album generated 285m combined audio/video streams its first week.

Debuting at #3 is the latest set—and second release of the year—from Warner’s Red Hot Chili Peppers, Return of the Dream Canteen. The follow-up to the chart-topping Unlimited Love opens with 61k, leading the week in pure sales.

Top 10 bows go to Dirty Hit’s The 1975, whose fifth studio album, Being Funny in a Foreign Language, enters at #7, and Warner Nashville’s Bailey Zimmerman, who lands at #8 with his debut EP, Leave the Light On.

BMG’s Backstreet Boys crack the Top 20 with their holiday effort, A Very Backstreet Christmas, at #14, as does Mercury/Republic’s Noah Kahan, with Stick Season at #17.

In case you’ve been living under a rock, Republic’s Taylor Swift just dropped her wildly anticipated 10th album, Midnights. Also streeting are new titles by Schoolboy/Interscope’s Carly Rae Jepsen, Capitol’s Babyface, Epic’s Meghan Trainor and Atlantic’s YoungBoy Never Broke Again.