This week the top three positions of the Global Album Chart are occupied by heavy metal Bands. British rock band Bring Me The Horizon debuts at the top of the chart with their fifth album 'That's The Spirit' after selling 159,000 copies this first week worldwide. Most of the sales are from the USA (55,200) and UK (43,500). Close behind is the American metal legend Slayer. Their 12th studio album 'Repentless' is the band's best-selling album so far and debuts at No.2 with 124,000 copies sold. Last week's No.1, Iron Maiden, drop to No.3 this week with their new LP 'The Book Of Souls', after selling a total of 96,000 copies globally, a 69% sales decline compared to the previous week.

A fortnight ago The Weeknd's 'Beauty Behind The Madness' debuted with global sales of 449,000. Tthis week the album drops one slot to No.4 with sales of 90,000. The Album has sold a total of 674,000 in three weeks and is the.33rd best selling Album this year! Taylor Swift's '1989' is still the biggest seller of 2015 with sales of 3,568,000. Ed Sheeran's 'X' is just behind with sales of 3,291,000 and Sam Smith's 'In The Lonely Hour' is in #rd position after selling  2,822,000 units.

'Cast In Steel'' by A-ha sold 15,000 copies last week and reaches a total of 47,000 so far. 'Chambre 12' by Louane sold 13,000 units last week, 579,000 so far. 'Drones' by Muse sold also 14,000 units last week and has a total of 873,000 copies so far, 'Meliora' by Ghost sold 94,000 copies so far. 'Rebel Heart' by Madonna sold a total of 799,000 copies, and 'Tracker' by Mark Knopfler 593,000.

It's Justin Bieber's second Global No.1 smash, after 'Boyfriend' was one week atop the tally in the week 15, 2012 with 375.000 points. There are three J-pop songs inside this week's Top 10: highest debut at no.2 is 'Ai Wo Sakebe' by boygroup Arashi (309.000 points), second highest at no.8 is 'Unfair World' by Sandaime J Soul Brothers (166.000 points). And finally last week's big chart-leader, 'Halloween Night' by AKB 48 throws down at no.9 (160.000 points). An impressive chart-debut at no.34: 'Schrei Nach Liebe' is a 22 year-old smash by the German punk band Die Ärzte. In those days, this anti-racism song reached no.9 in Germany and ranked massive 33 weeks on the official hitlist by Media Control. Now after a big anti-racism campaign because of the terrible refugee disaster in Europe, the song celebrates a spectacular return in Germany with massive download-sales last week. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other Adam Lambert's 'Ghost Town' at no.47, Robin Schulz feat. Francesco Yates' 'Sugar' at no.48, Meghan Trainor feat. John Legend's 'Like I'm Gonna Lose You' at no.55, and Sam Feldt feat. Kimberley Anne's 'Show Me Love' at no.57 for their first appearance on the big list.

British heavy metal legend Iron Maiden have the World's best-selling Album this week! Their 16th studio Album 'The Book Of Souls' tops the Global Albums chart after selling 310,000 copies. 74,000 of those were sold in the USA, 60,200 in the UK, more than 50,000 in Germany, 20,700 in France, around 12,000 in Italy, 9,200 in Australia, and 7,900 in Japan. The 310,000 initial sales are more than the former Iron Maiden album sold in its first week, 'The Final Frontier' also debuted at no.1 in 2010 with 249,000 copies. The band's first album,  'Iron Maiden', was released in April 1980, over 35 years ago! Just behind Iron Maiden is another heavy metal band, Five Finger Death Punch from Las Vegas who debut at No.2 with their new album 'Got Your Six' after selling 162,000 records: 114,000 copies were sold in the USA alone. 

Last week's chart-topper, The Weeknd's 'Beauty Behind The Madness' slips to No.3, after selling 135,000 copies. Also new in the Top 10 are American rapper Travis Scott with his debut studio album 'Rodeo' at no.4 after selling 87,000 copies; Australian actor and singer Troye Sivan's fourth EP 'Wild' is at no.5 after selling 80,000 copies; German Rapper Sido is at No.8 with his new set 'VI' and sales of 49,000. Back at no.10 is German 'Schlagerstar' Helene Fischer with 'Farbenspiel'. The album was last seen in the World's Top 10 shortly after its release in the week 45, 2013, when it debuted at no.8 with sales of 66,000. Some additional sales stats: 'Smoke+Mirrors'' by Imagine Dragons sold 10,000 copies last week with a total of 940,000 so far.  'Montevallo' by Sam Hunt sold also 13,000 units last week and has a total of 831,000 copies so far, 'V' by Maroon 5 sold 2,134,000 copies so far, 'My Everything' by Ariana Grande 1,649,000, and 'Farbenspiel' by Helene Fischer 2,301,000.

Japanese pop phenomenon AKB 48's 'Halloween Night' is their 21st number one smash on the Global Track Chart. The girlie idol group has now exactly the same number one songs as the Beatles. Only Elvis Presley and Madonna have had more no.1 songs (each with 22 hits). 'Halloween Night' leads nine new-entries this week. Justin Bieber lands the second highest, with his new smash 'What Do You Mean?'. The song debuts at no.2 globally. It's the first time in nearly two years, that we have two new-entries atop the chart. In the week 46, 2013 'Heart Ereki' by AKB 48 was the new no.1 with Eminem's 'The Monster'  feat. Rihanna at No.2. Back to this week's hitlist, The Weeknd is the new number one on the album chart, but loses the top position on the track chart. 'Can't Feel My Face' was No.1 for three weeks and slips ro No.3 this week. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis debut at no.18: 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift debuts at No.22.