{"id":82435,"date":"2017-03-08T09:31:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=82435"},"modified":"2017-03-14T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:59:51","slug":"ed-sheerans-divide-already-ranks-2017s-best-selling-album-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2017\/03\/08\/ed-sheerans-divide-already-ranks-2017s-best-selling-album-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Divide&#8221; Already Ranks As 2017&#8217;s Best-Selling Album In The US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Divide,&#8221; which has only been in the market for five full days, already ranks as 2017&#8217;s best-selling album in the US.<\/p>\n<p>Available data suggests &#8220;Divide&#8221; has already sold over 250K pure copies in the US.  No other album, new or old, has even sold over 230K since the year began more than two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hits projects &#8220;Divide&#8221; will have sold over 315K pure US copies by the close of tracking on Thursday.  The figure will position &#8220;Divide&#8221; as a convincing #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart.<\/p>\n<p>It will also receive a huge lift from TEA (track sales\/10) and SEA (track streams\/1500).  Hits projects it could generate over 435,000 consumption units from sales, TEA and SEA combined.  That figure will earn &#8220;Divide&#8221; #1 on the Billboard 200 consumption chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":82437,"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":[8390,314],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Divide&quot; Already Ranks As 2017&#039;s Best-Selling Album In The US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ed Sheeran&#039;s &quot;Divide,&quot; which has only been in the market for five full days, already ranks as 2017&#039;s best-selling album in the US. 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