After being No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart for the tenth week, Adele’s 25 has been knocked down to No. 2. Instead, The 1975 earns their first No. 1 album with their second album, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware. The album earned 108,000 units this week and sold 98,000 in pure album sales.
Adele’s 25 slips down to the second spot with 74,000 units. Rihanna’s Antiis at No. 3 with 71,000 copies.
A new entry is Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, which debuted at No. 4 with 61,000 units (51,000 are pure album sales). The Seattle duo’s last album, The Heist, debuted at No. 2 with 78,000 units in its first week. The Heist went on to generate Billboard Hot 100 chart-toppers including “Thrift Shop” and “Can’t Hold Us.”
So far, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made has spawned “Downtown” that peaked at No. 12 on the Hot 100.
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