Harry Styles Tops the Charts Again

Harry Styles
Jason Tate

Harry Styles still has the number one album in the country. Sturgill Simpson’s record debut at number three despite not having a streaming release.

Johnny Blue Skies (formerly Sturgill Simpson) & the Dark Clouds’ Mutiny After Midnight debuts at No. 3 with 59,000 equivalent album units earned — all from physical album sales. It’s the best week yet, by units earned or album sales, for the artist. It’s the second top 10-charting project for Simpson, following the No. 3-peaking A Sailor’s Guide to Earth in 2016. Mutiny After Midnight is currently only available on CD, vinyl and cassette. No release date has been announced for a streaming version or a digital download for purchase.

Dave Grohl Chats With the Guardian

Dave Grohl
Jason Tate

Dave Grohl talked with The Guardian:

He’s more forthcoming about the brilliant hardcore punk rager Of All People, which begins: “Of all people, you survived / When no one else could stay alive / You know you should be dead / But you’re alive instead.” He wrote it “after bumping into a drug dealer from the 90s that was getting everyone fucked up on heroin. I hadn’t seen them in 30 years, and they’re alive, healthy and sober. I was so happy that this person survived, while at the same time, I was devastated, because of all of the people I know that we’ve lost to exactly that drug” – Cobain was a heroin user. “I was so fucking angry, but at the same time so grateful to see them alive and well. Again, a conversation within myself, feeling so conflicted and divided. When I read the lyrics back, I mentioned them to my therapist: is this survivor’s guilt?”