iTunes charts

DOWNLOAD THIS: The iTunes charts have done their weekly flip, and five newcomers have landed on the album leaderboard, topped, as expected, by the full-length debut from Black Magnetic/Epic duo A Great Big World, whose breakthrough song “Say Something” has become a fixture on the singles chart. Putting that in context, if new artists are the lifeblood of the music biz, as Yoda (or was it Brent Musberger?) famously put it, we’re in a good stretch. Look at it this way: A year ago, we’d never heard of AGBW, Lorde, Bastille or Aloe Blac, and Imagine Dragons were just a new and developing band. My, how things have changed. (1/21a)