HITS LIST: TIME OF THE SEASON
The temperature's rising, it isn't surprising. (6/24a)
YOUR SIZZLING SUMMERTIME PHOTO GALLERY
Connecting the faces with the boldfaces. (6/22a)
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THE GRAMMY SHORT LIST
Who's already a lock?
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
INDIE DISTRIBUTION'S RISE TO GLORY
The discovery engine is revving higher.
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ABRAMS JOINS SWIFT AT WEMBLEY
The third studio album from Bristol post-punk band Idles, Ultra Mono (Partisan), is outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined on the midweek Official Albums Chart Update. 24kGoldn’s “Mood” is on course for a second week at #1 on the Official Singles Chart.
Powered heavily by physical sales, Ultra Mono would be Idles’ first chart-topping album. Their 2018 release, Joy as an Act of Resistance, peaked at #5.
Warner’s expanded edition of Prince’s 1987 album Sign O’ The Times, sits at #2; the original peaked at #4.
At #4, Machine Gun Kelly’s fifth studio album, Tickets To My Downfall (Bad Boy/Interscope), is the most streamed new release of the week. Deftones’ Ohms (Reprise) is#5.
Other new entries in the Top 10 are the Slade collection Cum On Feel The Hitz–The Best Of (BMG) at #7, Joji’s Nectar (88Rising/12Tone) at #8 and Steve Hackett’s Selling England By The Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live At Hammersmith (Insideout Music) at #9.
Winning the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize has pushed Michael Kiwanuka’s KIWANUKA (Polydor) back into the Top 10, currently #3. Vinyl releases have given two records a new life: The Weeknd’s After Hours (Island) and Guns N’ Roses’ Greatest Hits (Geffen) send those albums to #10 and #11 respectively.
HOWELL UPPED TO VP AT WARNER CHAPPELL
