Justin Bieber achieves by far his best sales week this week, as Purpose (his sixth #1 album) opens with 649K, 522K of which are proper sales. His previous best was 374K for Believe in 2012. As for One Direction, this is their first album to miss #1 but they get better opening sales than Four, which started with 387K. Their two biggest debuts are Midnight Memories and Take Me Home, 546K and 540K respectively. Ellie Goulding drops from #3 to #19 and Little Mix plummet from #13 to #90. And if you scroll down far enough you'll see Kylie Christmas, a new entry at #184.

 

01 NE 01 Justin Bieber, Purpose (649,000 (522,000 | 127,000 SEA/TEA))

02 NE 01 One Direction, Made In The A.M. (459,000 (402,000 | 57,000 SEA/TEA))

03 NE 01 Logic, The Incredible True Story (135,000 (118,000 | 17,000 SEA/TEA))

04 NE 01 Jeezy, Church In These Streets (107,000 (98,000 | 9,000 SEA/TEA))

05 NE 01 Chris Young, I'm Comin' Over (65,000 (57,000 | 8,000 SEA/TEA))

06 01 10 Chris Stapleton, Traveller (53,000)

07 NE 01 Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Letters From The Labyrinth (46,000)

08 04 12 The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness (43,000)

09 NE 01 Alessia Cara, Know-It-All (36,000 (22,000 | 14,000 SEA/TEA))

10 NE 01 Kirk Franklin, Losing My Religion (35,000 (33,000 | 2,000 SEA/TEA))

11 08 08 Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap

12 02 03 Eric Church, Mr. Misunderstood

13 19 16 Pentatonix, That's Christmas To Me

14 NE 01 Ty Dolla $ign, Free TC

15 25 74 Ed Sheeran, x

16 07 03 Various Artists, NOW 56

17 12 09 Drake & Future, What A Time To Be Alive

18 14 56 Taylor Swift, 1989

19 03 02 Ellie Goulding, Delirium

20 21 08 Bryson Tiller, T R A P S O U L

21 15 56 Sam Hunt, Montevallo

22 17 08 Thomas Rhett, Tangled Up

23 NE 01 Jeff Lynne's ELO, Alone In The Universe

24 18 06 Selena Gomez, Revival

25 24 248 Adele, 21

26 09 04 Carrie Underwood, Storyteller

27 20 45 Meghan Trainor, Title

28 NE 01 Natalie Grant, Be One

29 22 15 Luke Bryan, Kill The Lights

30 27 27 twenty one pilots, Blurryface

31 30 18 Future, DS2

32 11 75 Sam Smith, In The Lonely Hour

33 28 32 Shawn Mendes, Handwritten

34 23 04 Blake Shelton, Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits

35 06 199 The Beatles, 1

36 159 51 WALK THE MOON, TALKING IS HARD

37 29 05 Pentatonix, Pentatonix

38 41 12 Halsey, Badlands

39 26 04 5 Seconds Of Summer, Sounds Good Feels Good

40 05 02 Tim McGraw, Damn Country Music

41 55 41 Michael Bublé, Christmas

42 34 41 Drake, If You're Reading This It's Too Late

43 32 05 Kidz Bop Kids, Kidz Bop 30

44 38 08 Original Broadway Cast Recording, Hamilton: An American Musical

45 35 30 Elle King, Love Stuff

46 42 50 J. Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive

47 37 05 Demi Lovato, Confident

48 50 04 Chris Tomlin, Adore: Christmas Songs Of Worship

49 NE 01 MuteMath, Vitals

50 75 07 Janet, Unbreakable

51 46 11 Travi$ Scott, Rodeo

52 51 44 Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

53 NE 01 Casting Crowns, A Live Worship Experience

54 53 59 Hozier, Hozier

55 66 192 Adele, 19

56 16 02 Old Dominion, Meat And Candy

57 NE 01 Hailee Steinfeld, Haiz (EP)

58 172 02 MercyMe, MercyMe, It's Christmas!

59 61 46 Rae Sremmurd, SremmLife

60 64 11 Five Finger Death Punch, Got Your Six

61 63 13 Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

62 76 142 Drake, Take Care

63 60 06 The Game, The Documentary 2

64 91 35 James Bay, Chaos And The Calm

65 68 64 Maroon 5, V

66 NE 01 Chris Isaak, First Comes The Night

67 40 57 Little Big Town, Pain Killer

68 65 21 X Ambassadors, VHS

69 RE 13 The Piano Guys, Wonders

70 73 110 Drake, Nothing Was The Same

71 72 66 twenty one pilots, Vessel

72 74 39 Big Sean, Dark Sky Paradise

73 31 53 Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2)

74 62 30 Zac Brown Band, Jekyll + Hyde

75 NE 01 A Great Big World, When The Morning Comes

76 163 08 Disclosure, Caracal

77 82 49 Nicki Minaj, The Pinkprint

78 10 02 Sara Bareilles, What's Inside: Songs From Waitress

79 44 03 Elvis Presley With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, If I Can Dream

80 71 58 Florida Georgia Line, Anything Goes

81 146 62 Josh Groban, Noel

82 70 03 Lalah Hathaway, Live

83 57 02 Deitrick Haddon, Masterpiece

84 47 03 Chris Janson, Buy Me A Boat

85 81 08 Various Artists, WOW Hits 2016

86 56 25 Major Lazer, Peace Is The Mission

87 86 36 Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp A Butterfly

88 89 112 Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits

89 NE 01 Neil Young, Bluenote Cafe

90 13 02 Little Mix, Get Weird

91 116 71 G-Eazy, These Things Happen

92 77 26 Chris Tomlin, Love Ran Red

93 150 71 Casting Crowns, Thrive

94 67 93 Eric Church, The Outsiders

95 RE 25 Alabama Shakes, Sound & Color

96 107 26 A$AP Rocky, At.Long.Last.A$AP

97 80 08 Don Henley, Cass County

98 87 21 Meek Mill, Dreams Worth More Than Money

99 94 14 Melanie Martinez, Cry Baby

100 49 02 Sawyer Fredericks, Sawyer Fredericks (EP)

101 NE 01 Stick Figure, Set In Stone

102 164 45 Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas (Soundtrack)

103 97 242 Eminem, The Eminem Show

104 88 50 Carrie Underwood, Greatest Hits: Decade #1

105 79 08 George Strait, Cold Beer Conversation

106 69 04 Andrea Bocelli, Cinema

107 103 03 The Chainsmokers, Bouquet (EP)

108 153 47 Elvis Presley, It's Christmas Time

109 197 53 Mariah Carey, Merry Christmas

110 105 160 Kendrick Lamar, good kid, m.A.A.d city

111 NE 01 The Piano Guys, Live!: Carnegie Hall Audio + Red Rocks Concert Video

112 119 90 The Weeknd, Trilogy

113 110 09 Mac Miller, GO:OD AM

114 58 03 Def Leppard, Def Leppard

115 RE 18 Logic, Under Pressure

116 36 02 Grimes, Art Angels

117 90 09 Shinedown, Threat To Survival

118 RE 20 A Tribe Called Quest, People's Instinctive Travels & The Paths Of Rhythm

119 33 02 Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12: 1965 - 1966, The Best Of The Cutting Edge

120 78 69 Sia, 1000 Forms Of Fear

121 NE 01 Kurt Cobain, Montage Of Heck: The Home Recordings (Soundtrack)

122 113 59 Jason Aldean, Old Boots, New Dirt

123 123 199 Lana Del Rey, Born To Die

124 98 40 Imagine Dragons, Smoke + Mirrors

125 52 03 Various Artists, We Love Disney

126 136 29 Mumford & Sons, Wilder Mind

127 135 33 Flo Rida, My House (EP)

128 124 52 Zac Brown Band, Greatest Hits So Far...

129 108 28 Lauren Daigle, How Can It Be

130 111 15 Various Artists, NOW 55

131 95 06 R. City, What Dreams Are Made Of

132 121 16 Soundtrack, Descendants

133 127 168 Imagine Dragons, Night Visions

134 148 268 Eminem, Curtain Call: The Hits

135 NE 01 Il Divo, Amor & Pasion

136 NE 01 Mannheim Steamroller, Live

137 92 05 Machine Gun Kelly, General Admission

138 157 171 Ed Sheeran, +

139 115 05 The Game, The Documentary 2.5

140 125 17 Queen, Greatest Hits I II & III: The Platinum Collection

141 166 53 One Direction, Four

142 171 49 Céline Dion, These Are Special Times

143 118 119 Luke Bryan, Crash My Party

144 143 391 Bob Marley And The Wailers, Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers

145 126 13 Disturbed, Immortalized

146 122 15 tobyMac, This Is Not A Test

147 NE 01 Redman, Mudface

148 RE 99 Sade, The Best Of Sade

149 106 09 Lana Del Rey, Honeymoon

150 100 30 Josh Groban, Stages

151 NE 01 Train, Christmas In Tahoe

152 147 155 Florida Georgia Line, Here's To The Good Times

153 102 243 AC/DC, Back In Black

154 NE 01 Various Artists, NOW That's What I Call Country Christmas

155 140 383 Journey, Journey's Greatest Hits

156 109 04 DJ Khaled, I Changed A Lot

157 161 107 Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP 2

158 84 03 The Neighbourhood, Wiped Out!

159 141 79 Brantley Gilbert, Just As I Am

160 RE 93 Elton John, Greatest Hits 1970-2002

161 192 136 Taylor Swift, Red

162 174 104 Soundtrack, Frozen

163 160 67 Trey Songz, Trigga

164 133 10 Bring Me The Horizon, That's The Spirit

165 177 121 2Pac, Greatest Hits

166 83 04 Soundtrack, The Peanuts Movie

167 RE 91 Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill

168 RE 108 Usher, Confessions

169 176 31 Kids Choir, 51 Songs Kids Really Love To Sing

170 RE 20 Frank Sinatra, Christmas Songs By Sinatra

171 RE 59 Justin Bieber, Believe

172 131 60 Tove Lo, Queen Of The Clouds

173 142 65 Ariana Grande, My Everything

174 RE 09 Earth, Wind & Fire, Greatest Hits

175 RE 337 Guns N' Roses, Greatest Hits

176 152 06 Jana Kramer, Thirty-One

177 167 253 Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans

178 169 22 Breaking Benjamin, Dark Before Dawn

179 158 110 Metallica, Master Of Puppets

180 162 06 Daya, Daya (EP)

181 165 13 Lil Dicky, Professional Rapper

182 RE 16 Bing Crosby, The Best Of Bing Crosby: 20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection

183 RE 84 One Direction, Midnight Memories

184 NE 01 Kylie Minogue, Kylie Christmas

185 168 102 Beyoncé, Beyoncé

186 112 122 Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill

187 130 05 OMI, Me 4 U

188 RE 51 Billy Joel, The Essential Billy Joel

189 154 140 Michael Jackson, Bad

190 RE 15 Pentatonix, PTXmas (EP)

191 117 247 Michael Jackson, Thriller

192 144 10 Brett Eldredge, Illinois

193 178 06 DeJ Loaf, #AndSeeThatsTheThing (EP)

194 170 36 Soundtrack, Furious 7

195 175 108 Metallica, ...And Justice For All

196 190 90 Cole Swindell, Cole Swindell

197 132 27 Kelsea Ballerini, The First Time

198 182 44 J. Cole, Born Sinner

199 137 19 Cam, Welcome To Cam Country (EP)

200 189 53 J. Cole, Cole World: The Sideline Story

Justin Bieber Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Purpose'

By Keith Caulfield | November 22, 2015 3:35 PM EST

 

Justin Bieber earns his sixth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his new release Purpose debuts atop the tally.

 

The set -- released Nov. 13 through SchoolBoy/Raymound Braun/Def Jam -- earned 649,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Nov. 19, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the largest weekly unit total for an album since the Billboard 200 began tracking popularity based on overall equivalent units earned in December of 2014. (It beats the debut week of Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, which launched with 535,000 units.)

 

Further, Purpose sold 522,000 in pure album sales -- Bieber’s largest sales week ever. It surpasses his previous high, logged with Believe sold 374,000 in its first week back in 2012. Also impressive, Purpose’s 522,000 is the biggest sales week for an album since Taylor Swift’s 1989 debuted with 1.29 million (week ending Nov. 2, 2014), and the largest for a male artist’s album since Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 bowed with 792,000 (week ending Nov. 10, 2013).

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 5-dated chart (where Bieber is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

 

Purpose is the entertainer’s fifth straight set to open at No. 1, following Believe: Acoustic (in 2013), Believe (2012), Under the Mistletoe (2011) and Never Say Never: The Remixes (EP) (2011).

 

Before that, Bieber also hit the chart with My Worlds Acoustic (No. 7 in Dec. 2010), My World 2.0 (No. 1 in April 2010) and My World (EP) (No. 5 in April 2010).

 

Bieber leads a very busy week on the Billboard 200, where a near-record eight albums debut in the top 10. It’s only the fourth time in chart history we’ve had eight debuts in the region. It last happened on the list dated May 21, 2011. Before that, it occurred on Dec. 4, 2010 and Oct. 17, 2009.

 

Behind Bieber on the new Billboard 200 is the also-arriving One Direction, which launches at No. 2 with Made In the A.M. (459,000 units; 402,000 in pure album sales).

 

Impressively, this week marks the first time two albums have sold at least 400,000 in the same week since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream and Alicia Keys’ The Element of Freedom sold 661,000 and 417,000, respectively, in the week ending Dec. 20, 2009. Further, the Bieber/One Direction combo is the first time two debuting albums sold more than 400,000 in the same frame since Kanye West’s Graduation and 50 Cent’s Curtis opened with 957,000 and 691,000 in the week ending Sept. 16, 2007.

 

Certainly, interest in the Bieber vs. One Direction battle for No. 1 stirred sales for both albums. The two sets sold far more than initially predicted. Before their release, industry forecasters suggested each title was tracking to start with around 300,000 in pure album sales.

 

Also starting in the new top 10: Logic’s The Incredible True Story (No. 3), Jeezy’s Church In These Streets (No. 4), Chris Young’s I’m Comin’ Over (No. 5), Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Letters From the Labyrinth (No. 7), Alessia Cara’s Know-It-All (No. 9) and Kirk Franklin’s Losing My Religion (No. 10).

 

Notably, the Def Jam label owns three out of the top four albums (Bieber, Logic and Jeezy) and four in the top 10 (Cara is also on Def Jam). The last label to score three out of the top four on the chart was Columbia Records on June 16, 2012. That week, John Mayer’s Born and Raised at No. 1, Adele’s 21 (on XL/Columbia) was No. 2 and One Direction’s Up All Night (on SYCO/Columbia) was No. 4.

 

Near-Record Eight Albums Debut in Top 10 on Billboard 200 Chart

By Keith Caulfield | November 22, 2015 3:30 PM EST

 

A near-record eight debuts arrive in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Dec. 5), led by Justin Bieber’s Purpose at No. 1 and One Direction's Made in the A.M. at No. 2.

 

It’s only the fourth time in chart history we’ve had eight debuts in the region. It last happened on the list dated May 21, 2011. Before that, it occurred on Dec. 4, 2010 and Oct. 17, 2009.

 

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 5-dated chart (where Bieber is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Nov. 24.

 

Also starting in the top 10: Logic’s The Incredible True Story (No. 3), Jeezy’s Church In These Streets (No. 4), Chris Young’s I’m Comin’ Over (No. 5), Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Letters From the Labyrinth (No. 7), Alessia Cara’s Know-It-All (No. 9) and Kirk Franklin’s Losing My Religion (No. 10).

 

For One Direction, Made In the A.M. gives the vocal quartet its fifth straight album to debut in the top two of the chart, following four consecutive No. 1 albums. The new set launches with 459,000 in equivalent album units earned in the week ending Nov. 19, according to Nielsen Music (of which 402,000 are in pure album sales). That sales start surpasses the bow of the group’s last album, 2014’s Four, which entered the list with 387,000 sold.

 

Rapper Logic launches at No. 3 on the new Billboard 200 with The Incredible True Story (135,000 units; 118,000 in album sales). It’s Logic’s best rank yet on the chart, and his highest sales frame. (He previously hit the top 10 with Under Pressure in 2014, which debuted and peaked at No. 4).

 

Jeezy jumps onto the new Billboard 200 at No. 4 with Church In These Streets (107,000 units; 98,000 in album sales). It’s his seventh consecutive top 10 album (his entire chart history), and follows the No. 2-peaking Seen In All: The Autobiography in 2014.

 

Country singer Chris Young debuts at No. 5 with I’m Comin’ Over (65,000 units; 57,000 in album sales). It’s the second-largest sales week for Young, as only the debut of his 2011 album Neon (73,000) was bigger.

 

The new album’s title track recently gave Young his sixth No. 1 on the Country Airplay chart (dated Nov. 28). It’s his first chart-topper on the list since 2012’s “You” (Feb. 11, 2012).

 

Last week’s No. 1, Chris Stapleton’s Traveller, falls to No. 6 with 53,000 units (down 57 percent).

 

Trans-Siberian Orchestra collects its third top 10 album as Letters From the Labyrinth starts at No. 7 with 46,000 units (nearly all from pure album sales). The act also hit the region with Dreams of Fireflies (On a Christmas Night) (EP) in 2012 (No. 9) and Night Castle in 2009 (No. 5).

 

The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness drops 4-8 with 43,000 units (down 8 percent).

 

Nearly the end of the top 10, Alessia Cara’s debut full-length album Know-It-All arrives at No. 9 with 36,000 units (22,000 in pure album sales). The album was led by her hit single “Here,” which has so-far peaked at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

 

Rounding out the top 10 is gospel superstar Kirk Franklin with his new album Losing My Religion, which debuts at No. 10 with 35,000 units (33,000 in album sales). It’s the fifth top 10 effort for Franklin, who last hit the chart in 2011 with the No. 5-peaking Hello Fear.

Justin Bieber Scores Sixth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With 'Purpose'

By Keith Caulfield | November 22, 2015 3:35 PM EST

 

Certainly, interest in the Bieber vs. One Direction battle for No. 1 stirred sales for both albums. The two sets sold far more than initially predicted. Before their release, industry forecasters suggested each title was tracking to start with around 300,000 in pure album sales.

I think this is a really key point. It was a genius marketing move to pit the two acts/their rabid online fanbases against each other and was surely hugely mutually beneficial. 1D's camp have ensured they're bowing out (sorry Joseph! :/) on a really impressive high rather than getting another #1 on declining sales, while Justin's transition to credible artiste~ has all the more impact. I think it was Umi who said recently that 1D's waning overall popularity shouldn't be overshadowing what they're still capable of achieving (I'm paraphrasing :magic:) - for an X Factor UK group to be clocking up their fifth US top 2 album on sales of 400k+ five years into their career is absolutely huge in relation to the world's biggest acts, and really should be celebrated.