Alabama Shakes Top Album Chart, Shawn Mendes Plunges Out Of Top 10 After One Week
Last week, Shawn Mendes, 16, became the youngest artist to top the Billboard 200 chart in half a decade when his debut LP Handwritten reached #1. Alas, it was a short-lived victory, and Handwritten has fallen faster than a dead hooker in a handstand.
While Mendes’ album moved 106,000 units in its initial sales week, that number dropped to 20,000 over the following seven days, and Handwritten has now plunged from #1 to #17, per Billboard.
This makes way for Alabama Shakes, whose sophomore outing Sound & Color becomes the band’s first chart-topping album after moving 96,000 units (91K of which were actual sales).
The rest of the Top 10 is made up of the usual suspects, for the most part.
The Top 10 of the Billboard 200:
1. Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color *new* *1 week*
2. Soundtrack, Furious 7
3. Yelawolf, Love Story *new*
4. Drake, If You’re Reading This It’s Too late
5. Soundtrack, Fifty Shades Of Grey
6. Taylor Swift, 1989
7. Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour
8. Ed Sheeran, x
9. Sam Hunt, Montevallo
10. Meghan Trainor, Title
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