Powered by what Nielsen Music reports as 790,000 weekly US sales, Adele’s “25” earns a fourth straight week at #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n
The 790,000 weekly total, which was generated during the December 11-17 tracking period, brought the album’s cumulative US total to 5.98 million.<\/p>\n
Generated in only four weeks, the cume establishes “25” as the best-selling album since Adele’s own “21.” To date, “21” has sold 11.37 million copies in the United States.<\/p>\n
Taylor Swift’s “1989,” which previously ranked as the best-seller since “21,” has sold 5.57 million copies since its October 2014 release.<\/p>\n
With Track Equivalent Albums (track sales\/10) and Streaming Equivalent Albums (track streams\/1500) added to the pure sales total, “25” generated 825,000 in weekly consumption units. The mark easily earns Adele’s album a fourth straight week at #1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
The Top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 follows:<\/p>\n
1) Adele – 25 – 825K units (790K from sales)
\n2) Justin Bieber – Purpose – 166K units
\n3) Pentatonix – That’s Christmas to Me – 141K units
\n4) One Direction – Made In The AM – 67K units
\n5) The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness – 63K units
\n6) Chris Stapleton – Traveller – 62K units
\n7) Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams – 61K units
\n8) Michael Buble – Christmas – 50K units
\n9) Taylor Swift – 1989 – 49K units
\n10) Adele – 21 – 49K units (40K from sales)<\/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":[2784,4240,5199,1756,4085,1873,176,96,1342,562,1142,145,791],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n