NEW RELEASE: "RAIN" ON THE HIT PARADE

Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande’s "Rain On Me" (Interscope) exploded in its first day of release. The track's first week total will debut in the Top 10 among the year's biggest songs. The superstar collaboration will be the second biggest Pop debut of the year, following Grande & Justin Bieber’s "Stuck With U," which opened with 290k.

"Rain On Me" also earned the biggest Spotify global streaming debut of the year, surpassing "THE SCOTTS." It opened at #1 with 6.7m streams.

Among the milestones Gaga & Ari hit on day one: #1 Spotify U.S., #1 YouTube, #1 on iTunes in 26 countries and the biggest first-day streaming debut ever for an all-female collaboration on both Spotify charts.

Gunna and Dirty Hit/Interscope's The 1975 will score the week’s top debuts on the album chart.

New Release Projections:
Gunna (Young Stoner Life) 110-130k total activity, 2-5k albums
The 1975 (Interscope) 55-65k, 35-45k
Agust D (BigHit) 30-35k, 16-18k
Key Glock (Paper Route/EMPIRE) 18-22k, 1-2k

Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande "Rain On Me" (Interscope)
245-260k song activity, 85-95k sales, 18-20m on-demand audio streams.

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