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LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON LAST THIS ARTIST CERTIFICATION Title WKS. ON Tamia MARK LIDDELL WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART WEEK WEEK IMPRINT/DISTRIBUTING LABEL CHART HOT #1 #1 SHOT 1 1 WK MUSE Drones 1 NEW 1 1 WK MORGAN PAGE DC To Light 1 Love Life, which debuts DEBUT 1 HELIUM-3/WARNER BROS. NETTWERK at No. 15 on Top Album TROY AVE Major Without A Deal 2 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Beneath The Skin 1 2 Sales and No. 27 on REPUBLIC BSB RECORDS/EMPIRE RECORDINGS the Billboard 200, is YOUNG GUNS Ones And Zeros 1 THE ROLLING STONES 3 Sticky Fingers 1 WIND-UP your sixth album since THE ROLLING STONES/CAPITOL/UME debuting in 1998. How FFS FFS 1 TAYLOR SWIFT 5 1989 33 DOMINO has your approach to BIG MACHINE/BMLG SONNY LANDRETH Bound By The Blues 1 recording changed over FLORENCE + THE MACHINE How Big How Blue How Beautiful 2 MASCOT/PROVOGUE time? REPUBLIC FFS Super THE WILLIS CLAN Heaven 4 I always unplug from ROYAL BLOOD Royal Blood 6 WILLIS CLAN everything for at least IMPERIAL GALACTIC/BLACK MAMMOTH/WARNER BROS. Combo HONEYHONEY 3 1 a month. But this was VARIOUS ARTISTS NOW That’s What I Call Country, Volume 8 1 ROUNDER/CONCORD /UNIVERSAL/UME Debuts different. We rented out CHRIS MCCLARNEY Everything And Nothing Less 1 JESUS CULTURE/SPARROW/CAPITOL CMG the two rooms at the studio, ZAC BROWN BAND JEKYLL + HYDE 7 JOHN VARVATOS/SOUTHERN GROUND/BMLG/REPUBLIC As dance DJ-producer and I was writing and CAM Welcome To Cam Country (EP) 1 /SMN Morgan Page arrives recording all in the same A THOUSAND HORSES Southernality 1 REPUBLIC NASHVILLE/BMLG at No. 1 on Heatseekers shot. I finished this project ALINA BARAZ & GALIMATIAS Urban Flora (EP) 4 GG ULTRA Albums with DC to Light, in 10 days, which was scary SOUNDTRACK Pitch Perfect 2 5 REPUBLIC/UME the top 10 also welcomes — I didn’t know how to feel ARMORED SAINT Win Hands Down 2 METAL BLADE an alt-rock supergroup and about that. I came home ED SHEERAN ¡ x 51 ATLANTIC/AG GLASS ANIMALS Zaba 49 a rising country act. and told my husband, and WOLF TONE/HARVEST At No. 4, FFS (above) — he’s like, “Well, Jay Z did A$AP ROCKY AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP 3 TOM HOLKENBORG AKA JUNKIE XL A$AP WORLDWIDE/POLO GROUNDS/RCA Mad Max: Fury Road (Soundtrack) 5 pairing Franz Ferdinand The Blueprint in a weekend.” WATERTOWER with Sparks — starts with So I’m like, “OK, I’m done!” MUMFORD & SONS Wilder Mind 6 GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD/GLASSNOTE HALSEY Room 93 (EP) 16 its self-titled album, selling Is it hard to unplug from TWENTY ONE PILOTS Blurryface 4 JEDI MIND TRICKS The Thief And The Fallen 3,000 copies in the week 0-000-000-0=-0000000000FUELED BY RAMEN/AG 000-000002 ENEMY SOIL 0.0.,000000z0 the outside world for a ending June 14, according ;;; ;; TAMIA Love Life 1 OLD DOMINION Old Dominion (EP) to Nielsen Music. Sparks a0a0=0 month? 2 0 PLUS 1/DEF JAM REESMACK/RCA NASHVILLE/SMN -0000a00-2-0 I’m not fully unplugged — I made its Billboard chart SAM HUNT 0 Montevallo 33 UNCLE LUCIUS Light 1 debut back in 1974 with still can’t live without my MCA NASHVILLE/UMGN BOO CLAP/THIRTY TIGERS best friend, my phone. I the Kimono My House WILLIE NELSON / MERLE HAGGARD Django And Jimmie 2 KURT ELLING Passion World 1 unplug in terms of music. LEGACY CONCORD JAZZ/CONCORD album, which bowed on the Sometimes I listen to Billboard 200 on Aug. 24 of J FERNANDEZ Many Levels Of Laughter 1 TREMONTI Cauterize 1 JOYFUL NOISE different types of music, or FRET12 that year. Franz Ferdinand’s talk radio if I don’t really TA-KU Songs To Make Up To (EP) 1 chart history is of a more

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