For the third week in a row, Adele‘s 25 is the #1 album in the country. Nielsen Music reports it earned another 728,000 equivalent album units in the U.S., 695,000 were pure album sales. Adele broke another record as 25 becomes the first album ever to sell over 650,000 copies each of its first three weeks in stores in the Nielsen SoundScan era, which began in 1991. In total, Adele has sold 5.19 million copies of 25. Billboard predicts that 25 will pass 6 million sold by the end of the year, making it the first album to sell that many copies in one year since 2004 (Usher’s Confessions).
Coldplay‘s seventh album A Head Full of Stars debuts at #2 with 210,000 units, including 195,000 in pure album sales. Billboard notes it is their sixth straight record to debut in the Top 5.
A pair of Hip-Hop acts also debut in the Top 10 this week, as When It’s Dark Out from G-Eazy lands at #5 and Rick Ross’ Black Market is at #6. Australian singer/actor Troye Sivan debuts at #7 with Blue Neighborhood.
The rest of this week’s Top 10 of the Billboard 200 is made up of Justin Bieber (#3), Pentatonix (#4), One Direction (#8), Chris Stapleton (#9) and The Weeknd (#10).
