The 1975 hit No. 1 on Billboard with second album

The 1975 scored their first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with just their second album. They knocked off Adele’s 25 from the top spot.

The incredibly long-titled I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It debuted with 108,000 total units, reports Billboard. Of that total, 98,000 came from actual album sales.

I Like It When You Sleep is already outperforming their first album, 2013’s The 975. That album debuted at No. 28 and never reached the Top 10. It did chart at No. 140 this week and, so far, their debut album has only sold 349,000 copies. It took the album 26 weeks just to reach the numbers I Like It When You Sleep has in one week.

Adele’s 25 dropped from No. 1 to No. 2 with 74,000 total units. ANTI by Rihanna came in at No. 3 with 71,000 units.

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ This Unruly Mess I’ve Made kicked off its run with 61,000 units and a start at No. 4. That’s less than their previous album, The Heist, which was powered by two big hits and sold 78,000 copies in its first week.

Kelly Clarkson’s Piece by Piece earned an astonishing jump thanks to her performance on American Idol last month. It jumped from No. 120 to No. 6 with 44,000 units. The album originally came out in March 2015 and debuted at No. 1.

The only other debut in the Top 10 was Anthrax’s For All Kings, which had 34,000 units and started at No. 9.

Here’s the full Top 10: (*new release)
The 1975, I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It* (108,000 units)
Adele, 25 (74,000)
Rihanna, ANTI (71,000)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, This Unruly Mess I’ve Made* (61,000)
Justin Bieber, Purpose (56,000)
Kelly Clarkson, Piece by Piece (44,000)
Chris Stapleton, Traveller (43,000)
Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (36,000)
Anthrax, For All Kings* (34,000)
Joey + Rory, Hymns (33,000)

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