CHART FINAL: CON MUCHA FUERZA

Here’s a first: Two Spanish-language records will take the top spots on the HITS Top 50 chart this week.

At #1 is Rimas’ unstoppable Bad Bunny with DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, which adds another 83k+ to its estimable total (now about 1.3m). In the #2 position is the week’s biggest debut, 111XPANTIA, by Street Mob/Rancho Humilde/Sony Latin’s Fuerza Regida. The Cali-bred música Mexicana troupe nabs nearly 72k in its opening frame.

Completing Sony’s top-of-the-chart trifecta: TDE/RCA’s SZA, whose SOS flags down another 51k. It so happens that SZA’s album is the #3 set YTD, right behind [checks notes] Bad Bunny.

Morgan Wallen, whose I’m the Problem is about to land on the marketplace with the force of a dinosaur-vaporizing meteor, logs another 45k for his indefatigable 2023 set, One Thing at a Time (Big Loud/Mercury/Republic), good for #4.

Paper Route Empire/Republic’s Key Glock locks down a Top 10 bow with Glockaveli: The Don, which blasts its way to nearly 34k in activity and a #8 berth.

The next noteworthy debut comes from country eminence Eric Church, whose Evangeline vs. the Machine (EMI Nashville) logs 22k+, landing at #21.

A bona fide behemoth erupts at #31 with Pink Floyd at Pompeii: MCMLXXII, which is Roman for 1972. The British band’s volcanic rock does about 20k.

This week we receive the offering that is Even in Arcadia by RCA’s Sleep Token—which should kick up some chart lava of its own—as well as releases by (among others) Capitol’s Kali Uchis, river house/10K’s Forrest Frank, Broken Bow’s Blake Shelton, Warner U.K.’s PinkPantheress, Atlantic’s Kaleo, Columbia’s Arcade Fire and BMG’s Counting Crows.

Now, if you’ll excuse us, we have an audience with the new Pope. OK, not really, but we do have an appointment with some Chicago-style deep-dish pizza.