For the sixth consecutive week, Adele’s 25 is still at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It has become the biggest seller in a single calendar year since Usher’s Confessions was released over a decade ago.
25 took a huge tumble, but its 363,000 total units was just enough to keep Justin Bieber out of the top slot for the week ending on Dec. 31. Of its total, it sold 307,000 actual albums. Last week, 25 had its third million-selling week with 1.12 million actual albums sold.
According to Billboard, 25 is now up to 7.44 million copies sold in the U.S. alone, just since its release in November. That’s the biggest number for an album in a single calendar year since Usher’s Confessions sold 7.98 million copies in 2004.
Amazingly, 25 is also the first album to earn six straight weeks at No. 1 since Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream did it in December 2009 and January 2010. It is also the first album to sell at least 300,000 copies in its first six weeks since Creed’s Weathered did it in 2001.
There were no new releases in the Billboard 200 album chart’s Top 10.
Here’s the full Top 10:
Adele, 25 (363,000 units)
Justin Bieber, Purpose (217,000)
Twenty One Pilots, Blurryface (79,000)
One Direction, Made in the A.M. (75,000)
Fetty Wap, Fetty Wap (70,000)
The Weeknd, Beauty Behind The Madness (69,000)
Selena Gomez, Revival (57,000)
Chris Brown, Royalty (55,000)
Taylor Swift, 1989 (54,000)
Bryson Tiller, Trapsoul (53,000)