For 12 straight weeks just lately, the nation star Morgan Wallen dominated the Billboard album chart, however others at the moment are breaking by means of. Last week, Taylor Swift returned to the highest with deluxe variations of her newest album, “Midnights,” and this week the Ok-pop group Stray Kids scores its third No. 1 album in 15 months with “Five-Star.”
A barrage of collectible CD releases — 18 in all — despatched the eight-member Stray Kids to No. 1. “Five-Star,” with 12 tracks sung largely in Korean, opens with the equal of 249,500 gross sales within the United States, 231,000 of these on CD, in response to the monitoring service Luminate.
The album was additionally credited with almost 20 million streams. To put that quantity in perspective, on final week’s singles chart Wallen had 33 million clicks for his No. 1 tune “Last Night” — simply one of many 36 tracks on his album, “One Thing at a Time,” which holds at No. 2 this week. (Swift’s “Midnights” falls 4 spots to No. 5.)
The success of Wallen, Swift and Stray Kids can also be notable in that every one three share the identical document label: Republic Records, a division of the enormous Universal Music Group. Counting releases by these artists and one other in February by the Ok-pop group Tomorrow X Together, Republic has now held the No. 1 spot for 15 of the 23 weeks of the yr to date.
A clutch of latest releases are within the Top 10. In third place is “Whitsitt Chapel” by Jelly Roll, the face-tattooed rapper-turned-country singer who has change into the toast of Nashville. Enhypen, one other Ok-pop act, lands at No. 4 with “Dark Blood.”
The soundtrack to “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,” by the star hip-hop producer Metro Boomin — with visitor appearances by Offset, ASAP Rocky, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, 21 Savage and lots of others — opens at No. 7. And Foo Fighters’ “But Here We Are,” the band’s first because the loss of life of its drummer Taylor Hawkins final yr, begins at No. 8.
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