Adele Spends Third Week Atop Album Chart, ’25’ Crosses 5 Million Copies Sold Mark
Adele‘s third studio album, 25, shows no signs of slowing down, as it spends a third week atop the Billboard 200 and brings its total number of copies sold up to 5.19 million. The LP moved another 695,000 copies, and Billboard reports that it’s now the largest selling album of any calendar year since Adele’s previous effort, 21, closed out 2011 with 5.82 million copies sold.
This leaves Adele’s fellow Brits Coldplay to go in at #2 with their seventh studio album, A Head Full Of Dreams (210,000 units, 195,000 sales). The band’s previous release, 2014’s Ghost Stories, sold 383,000 copies out of the gate — nearly 200,000 more than its follow-up.
G-Eazy (#5), Rick Ross (#6) and Troye Sivan (#7) round out the rest of the new releases. See how the rest of the upper tier of the chart played out below.
The Top 10 of the Billboard 200:
1. Adele, 25 *3 weeks*
2. Coldplay, A Head Full Of Dreams *new*
3. Justin Bieber, Purpose
4. Pentatonix, That’s Christmas To Me
5. G-Eazy, When It’s Dark Out *new*
6. Rick Ross, Black Market *new*
7. Troye Sivan, Blue Neighbourhood *new*
8. One Direction, Made In The A.M.
9. Chris Stapleton, Traveller
10. The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness
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