Chart Final: Stray Kids Find a Home at #1 (and Republic Rules)

JYP/Republic’s Stray Kids score a resounding #1 debut on this week’s HITS Top 50, amassing a fabulous 362k—almost entirely in pure sales—for THIS & THAT. The stans have spoken.

Three other debuts have landed in the Top 10: Pooh Shiesty’s All Eyes on Shiest (Atlantic), which captures the #7 position with 51k; KAROL G’s NO ME ARREPIENTO DE SENTIR TANTO (Bichota/Interscope), which notches 50k, good for #8; and Interscope’s Role Model, whose horological concept album Chuck Timely & the Hourglass is a strong enough concept to net him 40k and a #10 berth.

We also feel compelled to underscore that in addition to #1, Republic owns #2 (Ariana Grande), #5 (Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem, via Big Loud/Mercury), #6 (The Great Divide, by Mercury’s Noah Kahan), #9 (Drake’s ICEMAN, via OVO), #11 (Island’s Olivia Dean), #12 (Morgan’s One Thing at a Time) and #13 (Noah’s Stick Season). Monte would like to know why it isn’t an all-Republic Top 15. But the Lipmans, Roppo and team nonetheless deserve a shout-out.

Also starring in the Top 10: Geffen’s Olivia Rodrigo, at #3, and SAWGOD/Columbia’s Ella Langley, at #4.

Streeting this week are newly minted offerings by HYBE x Geffen’s KATSEYE, Dead Oceans’ Phoebe Bridgers, Big Loud’s Ashley Cooke, RCA’s Becky G, Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope’s Benny Blanco, Decca’s Jon Batiste and Atlantic’s Nipsey Hussle & Bino Rideaux, as well as singer-songwriter great Carly Simon’s Comes in Waves (C’est), a chronicle of survival amid monumental challenges.

You may now resume hiding in that shipping container, though by now everyone knows you’re in there.