'Beauty Behind The Madness', the second album by Canadian singer, songwriter and producer Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, makes a grand entrance on the Global Album Chart with sales of 449,000. The huge success is driven by several singles, 'Earned It' (was No.6 in April 2015), 'Can't Feel My Face' (3 weeks at No.1) and 'The Hills' (No.14 this week). 'Beauty Behind The Madness' had it biggest sales in the USA with 325,500 copies, followed by Canada with 35,000 copies, and United Kingdom with 34,800 copies. The Weeknd's former album 'Kiss Land' debuted at No.2 globally in the week 39, 2013 with 117,000 sales, a total of nearly 400,000 to date. So the new LP sold more copies in its initial week. The 2nd highest debut of the week comes from American singer Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, a.k.a. Halsey. Her first album 'Badlands' debuts with a healthy 141,000 copies sold, 97,300 of those in the USA, and another 10,500 copies sold in Canada, and 8,200 in United Kingdom. The 3rd highest debut this week comes from 29 year-old French rapper Gandhi Djuna, better known as Maître Gims. His second solo album 'Mon Coeur Avait Raison' has sold 92,000 copies in France, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. His former set 'Subliminal' from 2013 has sold more than a million copies to date. Last week's No.1 album, 'Immortalized' by Disturbed, slips to No.9 after a 71% sales decline to 47,000 units.
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