Adele sold another 363,000 copies of “25” in its sixth week, which means she’s now sold over 7.4 million copies in the U.S. alone since its release in November. It also sold more copies in a calendar year than any album since 2004, when Usher’s “Confessions” album sold just under 8 million. And it’s the first album to sell more than 300,000 copies in each of its first six weeks since 2001, when the Creed album“Weathered” did it.
Here’s the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 this week . . .
1. “25”, Adele . . . 363,000 copies
2. “Purpose”, Justin Bieber . . . 217,000 copies
3. “Blurryface”, Twenty One Pilots . . . 79,000 copies
4. “Made in the A.M.”, One Direction . . . 75,000 copies
5. “Fetty Wap”, Fetty Wap . . . 70,000 copies
6. “Beauty Behind the Madness”, The Weeknd . . . 69,000 copies
7. “Revival”, Selena Gomez . . . 57,000 copies
8. “Royalty”, Chris Brown . . . 55,000 copies
9. “1989”, Taylor Swift . . . 54,000 copies
10. “Trapsoul”, Bryson Tiller . . . 53,000 copies
Over on the Hot 100, Adele remains at #1 for the 10th straight week with with “Hello”. The Justin Bieber hits “Sorry” and “Love Yourself” round out the Top 3.
Here are this week’s Top 10 songs . . .
1. “Hello”, Adele
2. “Sorry”, Justin Bieber
3. “Love Yourself”, Justin Bieber
4. “Hotline Bling”, Drake
5. “What Do You Mean?”, Justin Bieber
6. “Stitches”, Shawn Mendes
7. “Same Old Love”, Selena Gomez
8. “Here”, Alessia Cara
9. “Stressed Out”, Twenty One Pilots
10. “Like I’m Going to Lose You”, Meghan Trainor featuring John Legend
