'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.
The Weeknd's 'Can't Feel My Face' is No.1 on the Global Track Chart for the 3rd consecutive week. Next week, Justin Bieber's 'What Do You Mean?' and 'Halloween Night' by Japanese pop phenomenon AKB 48 are hot contenders for the top position but The Weeknd has just released his second studio album 'Beauty Behind The Madness' which will also deeply impact next week's sales.
Back to this week's track tally, where Felix Jaehn's remix of Omi's 'Cheerleader' remains at No.2 for a fifth consecutive week. 'Lean On' by Major Lazor feat. Mø & DJ Snake climbs back up to No.3. The highest debut comes from Japanese singer/songwriter Leo Ieiri. Her 'Kimi Ga Kureta Natsu' generated the biggest weekly download sales in Japan this year so far and landed at No.13 globally.
American heavy metal band Disturbed debuts at the top of the Global Album Chart. 'Immortalized' sold 159,000 copies in its first week, 93,100 of those in the USA alone. It's the band's third album to reach No.1. Their last LP 'Asylum' went to No.1 nearly five years ago in 2010 with 252,000 sales, and their debut Album 'Indestructible' topped the chart with sales of 301,000 in 2008.
'Burning Bridges', the 13th studio Album of the American pop/rock legendary Band Bon Jovi, is this week's second highest debut at No.3, having sold 105,000 copies. The biggest sales were in Germany with an estimated 25,000 units, 23,700 copies were sold in the US,14,500 in United Kingdom, and another 10,100 in Japan. Dr.Dre's new album 'Compton' is at No.2 this week with sales of 113,000. After the album was released on CD, it doubled its sales compared to the previous week. Luke Bryan's 'Kill The Lights' slips to no.4 with sales of 62,000. Jess Glynne's debut Album 'I Cry When I Laugh' is No.1 in the UK and No.5 on the global best-selling Albums chart with sales of 60,000.
The Weeknd remains atop the World's best Singles Chart for a second week!
The track was released on June 8, 2015, as the second single from his upcoming second studio album, 'Beauty Behind The Madness'. It was written by Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Abel Tesfaye and Peter Svensson.
The song has received commercial success, peaking at number one on both the Billboard US Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. The single has also peaked at number-one in New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, and was a top-ten hit in other territories, such as Australia, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, to become Tesfaye's most successful single to date. The single has received positive reviews from critics, who noted similarities between the song and works by Michael Jackson!
Ed Sheeran's 'X' returns to the top of the World Album Chart for a third time with sales of 119.000 sales. 'X' debuted at No.1 after its release on June 20, 2014 with sales of 549,000. Two weeks later it went back to No.1 after selling 151,000 more copies. Now after 60 weeks on the chart 'X' returns to No.1, having sold 6,593,000 copies, 3,107,000 of which were sold in 2014. 'X' is the second best-selling Album of 2015, just 280,000 units behind Taylor Swift's '1989' chich has sold 3,387,000 units.
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