Panic! At The Disco Lands First #1 On Album Chart With ‘Death Of A Bachelor’

Robbie Daw | January 25, 2016 11:39 am
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Panic! At The Disco, currently a one-man band featuring Brendon Urie, has landed at the top of the Billboard 200 for the very first time. Death Of A Bachelor is the fifth studio LP from Panic!, and it enters at the #1 position this week on the strength of 190,000 equivalent album units, 169,000 of which were album sales. This bumps previous chart topper, David Bowie‘s Blackstar (90,000 units) down to #4, while Adele‘s 25 and Justin Bieber‘s Purpose stay put at #2 and #3, respectively.

The only other album to debut within the Top 10 this week is the 31st edition of the Kidz Bop Kids series. Welcome to the doldrums of January.

The Top 10 of the Billboard 200:

1. Panic! At The Disco, Death Of A Bachelor *new* *1 week*
2. Adele, 25
3. Justin Bieber, Purpose
4. David Bowie, Blackstar 
5. Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface
6. Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 31 *new*
7. David Bowie, Best Of Bowie
8. Chris Stapleton, Traveller
9. The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness
10. Bryson Tiller, Trapsoul

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