After a week of rivalry between One Direction and Justin Bieber’s fan bases, Billboard revealed on November 22 that the Canadian pop star emerged victorious in the sales race the top of the albums chart.
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Justin Bieber is saying “Sorry” once again.
Justin Bieber dropped his new album’s cover on Instagram on October 9. “Love Yourself”, which is not an official single, reaches its massive high thanks to 17.4 million streams and a second-best digital songs spot with 141,000 copies sold.
He also broke a record by having 17 songs from goal score on the Hot 100 at the same time, beating the previous best of 14 which was held by The Beatles and Drake.
Bieber is now one of only three acts to chart at least three songs in the top five at once – the Beatles managed the feat in 1964 and 50 Cent also featured in the top flight for two weeks in 2005.
Adele’s “25”, released on Friday, won’t officially enter the Billboard charts until next week, but Billboard said Saturday that the album sold more than 900,000 copies on Apple Inc’s iTunes store in its first day. By comparison, One Direction’s fifth album, Made in the A.M., was (only) streamed 106 million times, reports Billboard. “I felt like I lost my objective for a while”. “In ‘I’ll Show You, ‘ for instance, he’s acknowledging that he’s not ideal while angrily pointing out that perfection is an unreasonable demand”.
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However, it’s not all doom and gloom for the English four-piece, as they reversed the position in the United Kingdom top 40, scoring the fastest selling album in the United Kingdom this year so far. Forbes shards that Bieber’s tracks, mostly dance pop music, has been charted in the top 10.
