HITS

Harry Styles dances to #1 on this week’s HITS Top 50, notching 424k in overall activity, with a muscular 284k in pure sales. Another of the year’s marquee releases, The Romantic by Bruno Mars, holds the #2 spot with nearly 80k. Morgan Wallen, Bad Bunny and Don Toliver round out the Top 5. This week sees new releases by Jack Harlow, Lamb of God and Black Crowes. 1⃣ Harry Styles (424.2k) 2⃣ Bruno Mars (79.6k) 3⃣ Morgan Wallen (74.7k) 4⃣ Bad Bunny (65.8k) 5⃣ Don Toliver (60.2k) See full chart👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/to…

Bruno Mars has the HITS Top 50 chart wrapped around his finger. The Romantic, Bruno’s first solo set since 2016’s 24K Magic, has seduced its way to #1 with a healthy 180k in activity, almost exactly half of that in pure sales. Bad Bunny, @MorganWallen , Don Toliver and Olivia Dean round out the Top 5. In a strong second week, Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 floats at #6 with nearly 57k. The week’s second-biggest debut belongs to BLACKPINK, whose EP Deadline notches 53k, most of it in stan-driven pure sales, sashaying to #7. 1⃣ Bruno Mars (180.3k) 2⃣ Bad Bunny (76.6k) 3⃣ Morgan Wallen (74.7k) 4⃣ Don Toliver (66.1k) 5⃣ Olivia Dean (58.9k) See Full Chart 👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/to…

Bruno Mars will consummate his conquest of the HITS Top 50 this week as his The Romantic puts a ring on #1 with a projected 175k. Meanwhile, BLACKPINK, fueled overwhelmingly by pure sales, is eyeing a #6 bow with DEADLINE , and Gorillaz’ The Mountain appears poised to thump its chest in the Top 10. 1⃣ Bruno Mars (175k) 2⃣ Bad Bunny (76k) 3⃣ Morgan Wallen (75.5k) 4⃣ Don Toliver (65k) 5⃣ Megan Maroney (61k) See full chart projection 👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/wh…

Megan Moroney is doing fine with Cloud 9. The country starlet sits high atop the HITS Top 50 with 146k units, good for her first-ever #1 album. Early aughts darling Hilary Duff lands a Top 5 bow with luck… or something, which opens at #3 just behind Bad Bunny’s unstoppable DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. Baby Keem’s Ca$ino (pgLang) arrives at #4. Other top debuts go to Mumford & Sons at #9 (catch them on SNL this weekend) and Omar Courtz at #23. Streeting this week are new titles from Bruno Mars, BLACKPINK, Mitski and Floyymenor. See the full Top 50 👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/ch…

Midweek Top 20 Chart 👇 Megan Moroney will debut at #1 on this week’s HITS Top 50 with Cloud 9, becoming the first female country artist to top the chart with an album of new music since Carrie Underwood summited with Cry Pretty in 2018. 1⃣ Megan Maroney, 141k 2⃣ Bad Bunny, 90k 3⃣ Hilary Duff, 81k 4⃣ Baby Keem, 71k 5⃣ Morgan Wallen, 71k hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/mi…

CHART PREVIEW: Megan Moroney will debut at #1 on this week's HITS Top 50 with Cloud 9 (Sony Music Nashville/Columbia), becoming the first female country artist to summit with an album of new music since Carrie Underwood premiered Cry Pretty in 2018. Meanwhile, Baby Keem (pgLang/Columbia) will tussle with multimedia celeb Hilary Duff (Atlantic) for the second-biggest opening of the week. Megan Moroney (Sony Music Nashville): 135-145k Hilary Duff (Atlantic): 70-75k Baby Keem (pgLang/Columbia): 70-75k Mumford & Sons (Glassnote): 40-45k Omar Courtz (Mr. 305/Rimas): 19-24k

The reverberation of Bad Bunny’s colossal Super Bowl performance continues this week as the Rimas marvel—who’s been dominating the DSPs—regains the #1 spot on the HITS Top 50 chart with nearly 139k. Last week’s chart-topper, Cole World/Interscope’s J. Cole, falls off just a bit with 82k+, good for #2. Atlantic’s @DonToliver , Big Loud/Mercury/Republic’s @MorganWallen and Island’s Olivia Dean round out the Top 5. The biggest debut belongs to ISO Supremacy/UnitedMasters’ Brent Faiyaz, whose Icon arrives at #6 with about 57k; Brent’s “butterflies.” has fluttered into Spotify’s U.S. Top 50. Also premiering in the Top 10: @Charlixcx’s Wuthering Heights ST (Atlantic), which approaches a swoony total of nearly 50k. Oh, Heathcliff! 1⃣ Bad Bunny (138.8k) 2⃣ J. Cole (82.6k) 3⃣ Don Toliver (79.4k) 4⃣ Morgan Wallen (76.7k) 5⃣ Olivia Dean (71.3k) See full chart 👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/to…

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“The culture war is over,” declared The New York Times shortly before our latest print issue went to press. “Bad Bunny won.” That may sound like hyperbole, but the Rimas supernova’s AOTY win and other huge Grammy looks, followed by an infinitely bigger Super Bowl appearance, prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the haters who dismissed him seriously misread the room. Bunny got a gigundo streaming boost after the Grammys without performing; now that the massive Super Bowl audience has seen him do his thing, he's redefining what "moving the needle" means. How big, in Bunny's case, is big? P.S. ICE out.

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Warner's Zach Bryan earns the first #1 debut of the year with the 25-track With Heaven on Top. The new set, which was buttressed with an acoustic version midway through the week, opens with 135k and marks the second time the Oklahoma troubadour bows atop the chart. SEA contributed to 128k of Bryan’s total. Republic Label Group holds the rest of the Top 5, with @MorganWallen, @taylorswift13, Olivia Dean and the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. (It's the first week since October that Republic doesn't hold the #1 spot) Columbia’s The Kid LAROI scores his best debut yet with Before I Forget, which opens at #6 with 41k. Teaser alert: Bruno Mars’ 2010 debut Doo-Wops & Hooligans re-enters the chart at #25 following the rollout of the Atlantic superstar’s new single “I Just Might” and the announcement of his forthcoming album and gigundo stadium tour for The Romantic. 1⃣ Zach Bryan (135.1k) 2⃣ Morgan Wallen (84.1k) 3⃣ Taylor Swift (65.9k) 4⃣ Olivia Dean (64.4k) 5⃣ Kpop Demon Hunters (56.9k) See full chart: hitsdailydouble.com/news/top-50-20…

What Prediction Markets Are Predicting for the Grammys Because we're not total amoral degenerates (emphasis on "total"), we're going to refrain from placing wagers on regime change in Iran or monitoring the odds of an asteroid putting us out of our misery. But with the Grammys two-plus weeks away, we thought we'd take a gander at the betting favorites in the Big 4 categories. hitsdailydouble.com/news/grammys/p… @Kalshi_Culture

On Jan. 14 BTS will announce its first tour since 2022, which is expected to consist of about 30 shows each in international and North American markets. Word is that managers HYBE offered AEG Presents the entire tour in exchange for a half-interest in Coachella (!?!), but the deal fell through, clearing the way for Live Nation to promote most of the upcoming dates. Read more about agency action and tours taking shape: hitsdailydouble.com/news/live/the-…

Still a Problem: @MorganWallen Starts 2026 at #1 All boats rise with new SEA ratios, but it’s Morgan’s I’m The Problem that starts the year with the biggest boost—nearly a 25% increase in streaming equivalents—rising to #1. It’s the first time Wallen tops the chart since last August. Following Wallen are @taylorswift13’s The Life of a Showgirl, Olivia Dean’s The Art of Loving and Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack. Dean earns her best week yet with the new chart math, reaching new peaks at #3 and 61k units. @tatemcrae and @SZA rise to #5 and #6 with So Close to What and SOS, respectively. Djo’s Decide soars to #27 following @Netflix’s Stranger Things finale, which is also responsible for Prince’s Purple Rain re-entering the Top 50. 1⃣ Morgan Wallen (81.3k) 2⃣ Taylor Swift (70.7k) 3⃣ Olivia Dean (61.8k) 4⃣ HUNTR/X (56.2k) 5⃣ Tate McRae (37.5k) See Chart: hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/to…

Sure, the @RepublicRecords triumvirate of @taylorswift13, @MorganWallen and KPop Demon Hunters decorates the top three spots on the latest HITS Top 50 chart, but this week’s real news is all about visions of sugar plums dancing in consumers’ heads. No fewer than 18 holiday albums adorn the Top 50, five of them in the Top 10. Michael Bublé’s modern perennial Christmas (Reprise) leads at #4 with nearly 66k, followed in quick succession by UMe’s Bing Crosby (60k) and Capitol’s Nat King Cole (52k). 1⃣ Taylor Swift (90.8k) 2⃣ Morgan Wallen (75.8k) 3⃣ Kpop Demon Hunters (66.9k) 4⃣ Michael Bublé (65.9k) 5⃣ Bing Crosby (60.8k) See Full Chart Story👇 hitsdailydouble.com/news/top-50-20…

Republic holds the Top 5 titles on the HITS Top 50 with Christmas a few weeks away. @taylorswift13 leads the pack, high-kicking her way back to #1 with 95k for The Life of a Showgirl, which logs its eighth nonconsecutive week on top. Rounding out the Top 5 are @MorganWallen’s I’m The Problem (Big Loud/Mercury), Visva’s KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, @Stray_Kids’ Do It (JYP/Imperial) and Verve’s Wicked: For Good soundtrack. 1⃣ Taylor Swift (95.4k) 2⃣ Morgan Wallen (67.9k) 3⃣ Kpop Demon Hunters (65.4k) 4⃣ Stray Kids (62.4) 5⃣ Wicked For Good (58.8k) See full chart hitsdailydouble.com/news/charts/to…