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It was the week&#8217;s fourth-best-selling new release.<\/p>\n<p>According to Nielsen Music, Ruess&#8217; first solo album moved 28,283 traditional copies in the United States during the June 15-21 tracking week.  That earns it the #5 position on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n<p>With Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album sale) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album sale) included, the first week &#8220;Grand Romantic&#8221; consumption total clocks in at approximately 31,000 units.  That earns the album the #7 spot on the revamped Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>Bleachers&#8217; &#8220;Strange Desire,&#8221; which is the aforementioned Jack Antonoff album, moved 21,179 copies in its first week of release last July.  It was the #11 album.<\/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],"tags":[1875,1009,4425,1008,1370],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nate Ruess&#039; &quot;Grand Romantic&quot; Opens with 28.3K First Week Sales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following in the footsteps of fellow fun. member Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess released an album outside the auspices of the band. &quot;Grand Romantic,&quot; that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/06\/24\/nate-ruess-grand-romantic-opens-with-28-3k-first-week-sales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nate Ruess&#039; &quot;Grand Romantic&quot; Opens with 28.3K First Week Sales\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following in the footsteps of fellow fun. member Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess released an album outside the auspices of the band. &quot;Grand Romantic,&quot; that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/06\/24\/nate-ruess-grand-romantic-opens-with-28-3k-first-week-sales\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-25T03:43:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Nate-Ruess-Tonight-Show-e1435203806720.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"492\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/06\/24\/nate-ruess-grand-romantic-opens-with-28-3k-first-week-sales\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/06\/24\/nate-ruess-grand-romantic-opens-with-28-3k-first-week-sales\/\",\"name\":\"Nate Ruess' \\\"Grand Romantic\\\" Opens with 28.3K First Week Sales\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-06-25T03:43:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-06-25T03:43:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"Following in the footsteps of fellow fun. member Jack Antonoff, Nate Ruess released an album outside the auspices of the band. \\\"Grand Romantic,\\\" that\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2015\/06\/24\/nate-ruess-grand-romantic-opens-with-28-3k-first-week-sales\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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