One Direction Outsells Taylor Swift, Breaks Record as the Only Boy Group to Have Four Number One Album Debuts
Christian George Acevedo | | Nov 27, 2014 01:47 AM EST |
(Photo : Reuters) One Direction
If you think Taylor Swift is unbeatable at the charts, think again. But then, it takes the power of four to wrestle the country-turned-pop singer's girl power.
This week One Direction is hailed as the top winner at the Billboard Top 200 Chart.
The group's fourth studio album, Four, sold 387,000 copies in the United States on its debut week, data from Nielsen SoundScan revealed.
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But the boy group is still far behind Swift's record-shattering 1.3 million sales for the first week of her album, 1989.
One Direction, though, is slated to make a record of its own. After winning the No. 1 spot at Billboard's chart, the British pop act is now the first and only boy band to have four albums to have debuted No. 1 on Billboard's chart.
Compared to Swift's album, Four is available for streaming via Spotify, and their album is hugely popular on the said service hitting 11.6 million streams in U.S alone, Spotify record can reveal.
So far, One Direction has had one billion total streams around the world, one of the only 14 acts to hold the feat. It won't be too long before One Direction catches up the streaming records held by No 2. David Guetta with 1.6 billion streams, and Eminem, who holds the top spot with 1.9 billion streams.
Taylor Swift's 198, meanwhile, drops to No. 2 staying on the top spot for three weeks, with 214,000 records sold.
A cappella group Pentatonix zoomed to No. 3 with 99,000 copies of their album That's Christmas to Me was sold.
Nickelback's latest, No Fixed Address debuted at No. 4 with 80,000 sales.
Over a decade after making his last album, Garth Brooks make a comeback with Man Against Machine opening drop from fourth to No. 5 with 62,000 sales.
This week's data for those who made it to the Billboard 200 is the last time that the magazine is use album sales as the only source of data for its rankings.
Billboard and SoundScan already announced that they will include data from streaming services, including Spotify, Rdio, Rhapsody, and downloads in counting chart positions.
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