Thanks partially to a two of huge summer singles as well as a star-making performance for the MTV Video Music Awards, the Weeknd’s new LP Beauty Behind the Madness cruised to Number One within the Billboard 200, compiling the second-bestselling week of 2015 coming to the top spot. Abel Tesfaye’s latest sold 326,000 total albums to use debut week, giving the Weeknd his first Number One album. Only Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which sold 535,000 copies in the first week, outsold Beauty Behind the Madness in 2010, Billboard reports.
The Weeknd’s third major label album was boosted with the success in the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack smash “Earned It” and “Can’t Feel My Face,” the people receiving heavy airplay on Apple’s new Beats 1 as soon as the singer debuted the track on the Apple Music announcement noisy . June. Since then, Beauty Behind the Madness has spawned two more singles, “The Hills” and “Tell Your Friends.” Beauty Behind the Madness also improves about the Number Four debut of 2012’s Trilogy and Kiss Land’s Number Two peak in 2013.
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Halsey’s Badlands debuted at Number Two as being the “New Americana” singer’s debut LP sold 115,000 copies, giving Astralwerks their highest-charting album within the Billboard 200 inside label’s 22-year history. Other new entries immediately include Maddie & Tae’s Start Here at Number Seven, Beach House’s Depression Cherry at Number Eight and Ben Rector’s Brand New at Number Nine.
Taylor Swift, such as Weeknd, was the person receiving a post-VMA boom as 1989 rose from Number Seven to Number Four after “Bad Blood” took home Video on the Year and also the new music video for “Wildest Dreams” debuted. 1989’s sales doubled over yesterday as Swift sold another 44,000 copies of her latest album. Last week’s Number One, Disturbed’s Immortalized, stumbled into Number 10.
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