Update:<\/b> The official Billboard\/Nielsen data has been published, and it confirms that 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Sounds Good Feels Good” won the weekly album sales race.<\/p>\n
According to Nielsen Music, “Sounds Good Feels Good” sold 179,000 pure US copies within the October 23-29 tracking week. Down sharply from the 259,000 moved by the band’s predecessor, the total nonetheless gives the 5SOS album the edge over all new and holdover releases.<\/p>\n
Carrie Underwood’s new “Storyteller,” which came closest, moved 164,000 pure copies in the official tracking week.<\/p>\n
With Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album equivalent unit) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album equivalent unit) included, “Sounds Good Feels Good” generated a first-week consumption total of 192,000 units. That positions the 5SOS album atop the consumption-oriented Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
The Top 10 of this week’s BB200 follows:<\/p>\n
1) 5 Seconds of Summer – Sounds Good Feels Good – 192K units (179K from sales)
\n2) Carrie Underwood – Storyteller – 177K units (164K from sales)
\n3) The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness – 55K units
\n4) Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap – 42K units
\n5) Blake Shelton – Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits – 40K units (33K from sales)
\n6) Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive – 34K units
\n7) Taylor Swift – 32K units
\n8) Pentatonix – Pentatonix – 32K units
\n9) Selena Gomez – Revival – 31K units
\n10) Andrea Bocelli – Cinema – 30K units (29K from sales)
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A far cry from the 300,000 that industry analysts were predicting as recently as last month, the opening week sales total for 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Sounds Good Feels Good” still ranks as the week’s best.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, the new 5SOS album sold approximately 180,386 US copies during the October 23-29 tracking week. The count gives “Sounds Good Feels Good” the victory over Carrie Underwood’s “Storyteller” — and all other new and holdover albums.<\/p>\n
Due Sunday, Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly. The disparity will not, however, be great enough to change the overall conclusion: “Sounds Good Feels Good” was the week’s best-selling album and will start at #1 on Top Album Sales.<\/p>\n
Powered by sales of approximately 164,090, the aforementioned “Storyteller” will take second.<\/p>\n
The sales totals represent declines from each act’s previous release. 5 Seconds of Summer’s self-titled 2014 release sold 259,000 copies in its first week. Underwood’s 2012 “Blown Away” debuted with 267,000 sales.<\/p>\n
In addition to winning the pure album sales race, “Sounds Good Feels Good” generated the most weekly consumption. With Track Equivalent Albums (10 single sales = 1 album equivalent unit) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (1500 single streams = 1 album equivalent unit) included, Hits estimates that “Sounds Good Feels Good” posted a first-week consumption total of 195,150 units.<\/p>\n
“Storyteller” follows with ~179,096 units.<\/p>\n
Other top pure sales performers: Andrea Bocelli’s “Cinema” (~40,739 sales), Blake Shelton’s “Reloaded: 20 #1 Hits” (~29,573 sales), Pentatonix’s “Pentatonix” (~24,830 sales).<\/p>\n
Other top total consumption performers: The Weeknd’s “Beauty Behind The Madness” (~55,544 units), Fetty Wap’s “Fetty Wap” (~44,793 units), Andrea Bocelli’s “Cinema” (~41,988 units).<\/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":[1810,5205,390,42,176,3562,1142,4987,4913,791],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n