Shawn Mendes’ “Handwritten” is projected to land atop next week’s Billboard Top Album Sales and Billboard 200 charts.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, the teen artist’s debut album is expected to move 100-110,000 traditional copies during its first week of release. With Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album sale) included, “Handwritten” should net a first week consumption total of 110-120,000 units.<\/p>\n
The former will easily be enough for #1 on the Top Album Sales chart, while the latter will give “Handwritten” a #1 bow on the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
News of the expected achievements should not come as a surprise. Reports recently confirmed that “Handwritten” had banked upwards of 65,000 pre-orders prior to its April 14 release. Those pre-order purchases count toward the album’s inaugural sales total.<\/p>\n
As far as new releases go, Reba’s “Love Somebody” and Tyler the Creator’s “Cherry Bomb” will be the next-best performers. “Love Somebody” is expected to move 55-60,000 traditional copies and 60-65,000 total units, while “Cherry Bomb” will move 50-55,000 pure copies but the same 60-65,000 units.<\/p>\n
Expected to move 40-45,000 traditional copies and 45-50,000 consumption units, Halestorm’s “Into the Wild Life” is also on the map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[183,1047,206],"tags":[3782,2511],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n