For the second time in less than a month, a whopping nine of the top 10 albums on Billboard’s Top Album Sales are debuts, as Nos. 1-9 on the chart dated May 29 are all new entries.
Dan Auerbach Summons the Ghosts of Mississippi Blues
Dan Auerbach poses with the gem he used to record much of
Delta Kream: a Kawai Kingston S4T once owned by raw blues slide master Hound Dog Taylor. Note Taylor s name on the headstock, courtesy of the Dog himself, via a plastic-label punch.
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Delta Kream, the Black Keys and veteran slide master Kenny Brown dig deep to honor R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbroughâ two of the most important American musicians that ever were.
There s no more biblicalâNew Testament, of courseâintroduction to the raucous, bouncing, mesmeric sound of North Mississippi hill country blues than the new Black Keys album,
J. Cole s The Off-Season Arrives Atop Billboard 200 Chart
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Trailing behind at No. 2 is Nicki Minaj s Beam Me Up Scotty mixtape that bows at the position with 80,000 equivalent album units earned in this week s chart. May 24, 2021
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J. Cole s The Off-Season lands at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the artist s sixth No. 1 album. The set, which was released by Dreamville/Roc Nation/Interscope on May 14, earns 282,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending May 20, according to MRC Data.
Off the number, SEA units comprise 243,000, totaling 325.05 million on-demand streams of the album s 12 tracks. It marks the biggest streaming week for an album in 2021, surpassing