Weekly mktshre with YTD report teased

YOUR WEEKLY MARKETSHARE: Our year-to-date marketshare report , posted this morning, shows that Republic has the rest of the field in the rearview mirror and will likely retain if not increase its lead during the course of the remaining four months. But that doesn’t mean a rival label or labels won’t come out ahead in the weekly battles, as Rob Stringer’s Columbia has done behind Top 10 debuts from Juicy J and John Mayer, who collectively tallied a tidy 100k, with additional contributions from Bob Dylan (twice), The Civil Wars, Daft Punk, One Direction, Earl Sweatshirt and J. Cole. No other label had anything close to nine albums (totaling 180k) in the Top 50; IGA had six, which accounts for its second-place finish. But don’t fret for Monte Lipman’s label, presently languishing at an uncharacteristic #6—not with Ariana Grande debuting yesterday, The Weeknd hitting next Tuesday, Jack Johnson 9/17, the mighty Drake 9/24 and Lorde 9/30. Which is precisely why we’ve concluded that Republic will be hard to catch. We rest our case. (9/4a)