It’s those dog days of summer on the pop charts.
With just two weeks until the end of Grammy eligibility, new releases are getting in their last licks.
Stray Kids, the popular K Pop group, arrived at number 1 this week for an album called “This and That.” Well, they sold a whopping equivalent 362,000 copies almost all in physical sales. Fans love to download their albums, not just stream them. They’re not big on Spotify. But who cares?
The big American release this week came from Role Model, a strange pop guy who’s said weird things in interviews — like he wants to be a single father of a baby girl. Yikes. He also Dakota Johnson, who’s 8 years his senior.
Anyway, his album, called “Chuck Timely and the Hourglass,” really was a dud with just 40,000 copies in its opening week. Role Model’s real name is Tucker Pillsbury. He had a massive hit last time out with “Sally, When the Wine Runs Out” — 271 million streams. But Chuck Timely, whoever he is, doesn’t have a hit single so far.
Other news: Carly Simon’s new album, “Comes in Waves,” shot straight to number 6 on iTunes yesterday. Physical CDs arrive this week to fulfill big back orders on amazon.com.
Also picking up speed at least: Steve Lacy’s “Oh Yeah” from the “Spider Man” movie. For a little while, fans of the movie didn’t realize the movie had an original song. But Lacy’s album has taken off, and so has the song. It’s number 2 on Spotify today.
