The Weeknd scores top two spots on charts

The Weeknd scores top two spots on charts photo The Weeknd scores top two spots on charts

Beneath Five Finger Death Punch, Travi$ Scott’s new album Rodeo clocks in at No. 3 with 85,000 album equivalent units, 70,000 of which were album sales. Insofar as it reportedly sold upwards of 100,000 during the 9/4-10 frame – and obviously more than 9,000 copies – it undoubtedly crossed 1.5 million in total sales.



Other new entries in the top ten of the chart include veteran heavy metal group Iron Maiden’s latest record “Book of Souls” at No. 4 and Australian actor-singer Troye Sivan’s “Wild” at No. 5. All but 5,000 of that is pure album sales.

His success on the singles chart is mirrored on the new Billboard 200 album chart as Beauty Behind the Madness scores a second week at number one. Beauty Behind the Madness debuted on the Billboard 200 with 410,000 units last week. That sum is powered by 114,000 in pure album sales, which makes it the top selling album of the week, and it reigns at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart.

As this point, it would probably be easier to list the charts on which The Weeknd isn’t No. 1.

 

Only one act had previously scored such a hat trick (a fitting term, by the way, since The Weeknd is from Canada): Taylor Swift, for seven weeks in December 2014-January 2015, with her album 1989 and singles “Shake It Off” (two weeks) and “Blank Space” (five).

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