Florence + The Machine Take Top of Billboard 200; Taylor Swift + A$AP Rocky Stick Around

Florence + The Machine booked its first no. 1 effort on the Billboard 200 as mouthful How Big How Blue How Beautiful took the top spot with more than 137,000 equivalent album sales. Although only pure album sales were tracked at the time of the band's last release, Ceremonials, Billboard suggests that this was also the band's biggest sales weeks in terms of pure records as well.

Taylor Swift continues to fight, spending her third consecutive week at no. 2 (well on her way to being the next Wilson Phillips). Her album 1989 has spent its first 32 weeks within the Top 10 now...selling 66,000 equivalent copies last week (more than half actual records)...she's still got a while before she matches Adele's record of 81 weeks.

Last week's no. 1 drops a few spaces to no. 3 this week, as A$AP Rocky's At.Long.Last.A$AP moves another 50,000 copies. He was followed by Jason Derulo, who came in at no. 4, appropriately, with Everything Is 4. That album moved 37,000 equivalent copies....but only 22,500 were actual record sales. Much of his total is thanks to high streaming and download totals for his hit single "Want to Want Me." If it weren't for that song, three other new releases would have been ahead of him on the Billboard 200 this week. You'll see one of those albums later and two more on tomorrow's album sales tally.

Ed Sheeran bounces back up to no. 5 with x, which moved another 36,000 copies. The Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack spends its fourth week in the Top 10, placing sixth with 34,000 copies sold.

The aforementioned third new album to debut in the Top 10 this week comes from Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, whose Django and Jimmie collaboration placed no. 7 with more than 31,000 copies sold. Unbelievably, after a music career spanning nearly 50 years, this is Haggard's first time in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200.

Meghan Trainor stayed at no. 8 this week, moving another 30,000 copies of Title. Two performers jump back into the Top 10 this week, as The Zac Brown Band and Jekyll + Hyde take no. 9 with just less than 30,000 copies sold, and Maroon 5's V rounds off the list with 29,000 copies moved.

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Maroon 5, The zac brown band, Meghan Trainor, Pitch Perfect 2, Ed Sheeran, Jason Derulo, A$AP Rocky, Taylor Swift, Florence + The Machine