Prince and the Revolution are back in the top five with the new deluxe versions of the soundtrack to the film Purple Rain.
This is the third major chart run for the album. The first was during its initial release in 1984 and it once again ran high in the top ten last year when Prince passed away.
Purple Rain is one of two albums that have had major resurgences on the chart with new deluxe versions. The other is the Radiohead classic OK Computer which is now known as OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997 2017. Debuting at 36, it is just a little short of where the album peaked upon its original release in 1997 where it went to 21.
The highest debuting album by a veteran artist this week goes to 311 and MOSAIC which starts at 6. Their twelfth studio album, it is the ninth in a row to peak in the top ten including their last album, 2014’s Stereolithic, which also debuted at 6. Their highest charting album was 2009’s Uplifter which went to 3.
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy premiers at 49 with Together at Last, his first purely solo album. He has previously released four albums with Uncle Tupelo, fourteen with Wilco and one with his son Spencer as Tweedy.
Joe Bonamassa is back with his seventeenth charting album since 2000 and the eighth charting live album with Live at Carnegie Hall: An Acoustic Evening. His previous highest charting live album was Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks which went to 35 in 2015, one of two live albums he released that year.
At 141 is the debut of the soundtrack to the movie Baby Driver whose name was taken from the Simon & Garfunkel song and includes tracks from artists like the Beach Boys, Carla Thomas, the Commodores, the Damned, Sam & Dave, Focus and many more.
Finally, New Waves, the album by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony members Krayzie Bone and Bizzy Bone who are now known as Bone Thugs, opens at 181. They had been to the top two four times between 1995 and 2007 with the original group.
