AKB 48's sister group Nogizaka 46 is top of the World’s best-selling Album Chart this week with their first LP 'Tômei Na Iro’ and sales of 222.000 sales, according to Oricon. And it's also the first new no.1 on the Global Chart in 2015. Taylor Swift's smash '1989' slides at no.2 with another 194.000 sales.
Ed Sheeran's 'X’ has sales of 116.000 this week; Sam Smith's 'In The Lonely Hour' shifts 92.000 copies and AC/DC's 'Rock Or Bust' sells 70.000 units.
American hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd (backward for Ear Drummers), consisting of 19 year-old Swae Lee and 13 year-old Slim Jimmy. Their debut album 'SremmLife’ is no.15 globally with 36.000 sales (34.000 from the USA and nearly 2.000 from Canada). Third and final new-entry this week comes from Babymetal, a Japanese metal idol group. Their second album 'Live At Budokan: Red Night' debuts at no.3 in Japan with 24.000 sales, according to Oricon, enough for a no.25 debut globally. Some additional sales stats: 'Cheek To Cheek' by Tony Bennett & Lady GaGa sold 12.000 copies last week and has sold a total of 901.000 copies globally, '21' by Adele sold 8.000 units last week, huge 26,7 million so far, 'Prism' by Katy Perry sold another 8.000 units last week and has sold a total of 3.434.000 copies so far, 'Take Me Home' by One Direction has sold 5,6 million copies, 'Up All Night' by One Direction 5,4 million, and 'Red' by Taylor Swift 6,2 million
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