“Encanto” is spending its eighth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, but the real enchantment this week may be in the form of three debuting albums that arrived to add some fresh air to the staleness of the chart in recent weeks.
Although nothing was remotely in danger of dethroning the Disney soundtrack from a run that keeps breaking records, Kodak Black had a particularly respectable bow on the chart with “Back for Everything,” which entered at No. 2 with 60,000 album-equivalent units. It’s his fifth album to make the chart’s top 5. The rapper’s album only sold 3,000 copies, but his track streams were at an astronomical 84 million.
Tears for Fears’ first album since 2004, “The Tipping Point,” bowed at No. 8 with 31,000 album-equivalent units. Of those 31,000 units, 29,000 were in actual full-album sales, making it the biggest-selling album of the…
