Shawn Mendes Lands Second Chart-Topping Album With ‘Illuminate’

Shawn Mendes is now two for two, as the teen crooner’s sophomore album Illuminate tops the Billboard 200 this week, a year after his freshman effort, Handwritten, pulled off the same feat. Illuminate sold 121,000 copies and racked up 145,000 in overall units out of the gate, an uptick from the 106,000 sales and 119,000 overall units its predecessor debuted with in April 2015. Mendes’ latest LP arrives on the strength of lead single, “Treat You Better,” the Canadian singer’s second Top 10 US hit (following “Stitches”).

Billboard points out that Mendes now has the distinction of being one of only five artists to land two #1 albums by the age of 18, with the other four being Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff and LeAnn Rimes.

The Top 10 of the Billboard 200:

1. Shawn Mendes, Illuminate *new* *1 week* 
2. Drake, Views
3. Soundtrack, Suicide Squad
4. Luke Bryan, Farm Tour…Here’s To The Farmer *new*
5. Bruce Springsteen, Chapter And Verse *new*
6. Travis Scott, Birds In The Trap Sing McKnight
7. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface
8. Jason Aldean, They Don’t Know
9. Rihanna, Anti
10. Ariana Grande, Dangerous Woman

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