Update:<\/b> Billboard has made the news official: Pentatonix’s “A Pentatonix Christmas” claims #1 on Top Album Sales and the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
It tops the former thanks to what Billboard reports as 185K weekly pure US sales. The inclusion of TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) yields a consumption tally of 206K units, which results in #1 on the Billboard 200.<\/p>\n
Pentatonix has two albums in the Top 5 on this week’s Billboard 200; its “That’s Christmas To Me” is #5 with 78K units. Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic” (#2, 114K units), The Weeknd’s “Starboy” (#3, 101K units), and J. Cole’s “4 Your Eyez Only” (#4, 90K units) land in between the two.
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The last US album sales race prior to Christmas falls in favor of Pentatonix’s hit holiday album “A Pentatonix Christmas.”<\/p>\n
According to BuzzAngle\/Hits, “A Pentatonix Christmas” sold approximately 179,831 pure US copies during the December 16-22 tracking week. The count nearly doubles that of the week’s #2 seller.<\/p>\n
With TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500) included, “A Pentatonix Christmas” generated 200,940 in total weekly consumption units. That easily ranks as the week’s best consumption figure.<\/p>\n
Due Sunday or Monday, Billboard’s more authoritative data will differ slightly from that reported by BuzzAngle. The disparity will not, however, be enough to change the overall outcome: “A Pentatonix Christmas” will be #1 on Top Album Sales (pure sales) and the Billboard 200 (consumption).<\/p>\n
This week’s other top pure sales performers:
\nBruno Mars’ “24K Magic” (~90,183)
\nGarth Brooks’ “The Ultimate Collection” (~62,816)
\nPentatonix’s “That’s Christmas To Me” (~60,491)
\nThe Rolling Stones’ “Blue & Lonesome” (~49,965)<\/p>\n
This week’s other top consumption performers:
\n24K Magic (~114,554)
\nThe Weeknd’s “Starboy” (~100,320)
\nJ. Cole’s “4 Your Eyez Only” (~91,055)
\n“That’s Christmas To Me” (~80,216)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75693,"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":[7652,40,1316,422,1142,3259,4389,791],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n