TOP 50: A MONTH OF UTOPIA

Cactus Jack/Epic’s Travis Scott has now notched four consecutive weeks at #1 on the HITS Top 50 with UTOPIA, which posts 160k in its latest frame, with another 90k in pure sales. Scott’s four-week reign marks the longest #1 rap run since Lil Baby’s My Turn topped the chart for four straight weeks in 2020. UTOPIA has now surpassed 1m in total activity.

Big Loud/Mercury/Republic’s Morgan Wallen maintains the #2 spot with One Thing at a Time, followed by j-hope’s Jack in the Box (HYBE/Geffen), which surges to #3 thanks to the release of physical product.

The top debut goes to Columbia’s Hozier, whose Unreal Unearth scores 59k, landing at #4. Diemon/gamma.’s Russ, meanwhile, earns a Top 10 bow for SANTIAGO.

Two K-pop acts, JYP/Imperial/Republic’s JIHYO (TWICE) and SM/Virgin’s NCT Dream, score Top 20 entries, as does QC/Motown’s Quavo, with Rocket Power. With Snow Angel (#46) Interscope’s Reneé Rapp delivers the year’s top debut by a female pop act.

Streeting this week are new titles by Warner’s Zach Bryan, Def Jam’s Fridayy, Ladylike/Sony Nashville’s Morgan Wade, Big Machine’s Tim McGraw, Sony Latin’s Maluma, Lovett/RCA’s Victoria Monét and the 10th anniversary deluxe reissue of Ariana Grande’s Yours Truly (Republic).

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have to check the news feed to see if any more mug shots have come in. Go to the chart here.