“This Is What The Truth Feels Like” has indeed become the first Gwen Stefani solo album to win a weekly US album sales race.<\/p>\n
According to Hits Daily Double, “Truth” sold approximately 80,551 US copies during the March 18-24 tracking week. The tally easily ranks as the week’s best.<\/p>\n
Due later this weekend, Billboard’s more authoritative data will likely differ from that reported by Hits. The differential will not, however, be nearly enough to change the overall outcome: “This Is What The Truth Feels Like” will take #1 on Top Album Sales.<\/p>\n
It will also take #1 on the Billboard 200, which ranks albums based on total consumption (pure album sales + track sales\/10 + track streams\/1500).<\/p>\n
— On the pure sales front, Jordan Smith’s “Something Beautiful” ranks as the week’s next-best performer. Per Hits, it sold approximately 53,258 first-week copies.<\/p>\n
The tally marks the best opening week sum ever posted by an album from a “The Voice” contestant. Season three winner Cassadee Pope previously held the distinction; her debut solo\/post-show album “Frame By Frame” sold 43,000 first week copies in the US.<\/p>\n
Other top weekly sellers include Adele’s “25” (~43,183), “The Passion: New Orleans” (~29,132), Joey + Rory’s “Hymns” (~26,198), Chris Stapleton’s “Traveller” (~26,012), and Kane Brown’s “Chapter 1” (~23,345).<\/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":[1756,4085,176,2232,5330,5275,5196,5753,6101,177,6032],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n