The Weeknd: hit singles
Beauty Behind the Madness crowns the Billboard 200 for the third week, Billboard reports, with 99,000 album equivalent units moved (incorporating album sales, track sales and streams). It's a 32 percent decrease for the album, and for the second week in a row, streams and individual single sales helped to carry BBTM to the top spot on the Billboard 200.
The actual top-selling album of the week goes to British rockers Bring Me the Horizon and its new LP That's the Spirit. The band's first top 10 album moved 62,000 album equivalent units, with 55,000 of those copies (88 percent) coming from raw album sales. However, the lack of streaming numbers bumped the record to No. 2.
It's a major spread of genres in the top three. Following an R&B album and a rock record, country star Brett Eldredge's new album Illinois marks his best week on the charts with a No. 3 start and 51,000 album units moved. It's then back to rock - albeit a hardcore version - as Slayer's latest album Repentless moved 50,000 units (49,000 of which are raw album sales) and marks the band's highest chart debut at No. 4.
The top five is rounded out by a familiar album, Taylor Swift's 1989 with 41,000 copies sold. She is followed by other Billboard 200 familiars Luke Bryan's Kill the Lights at No. 6 and Five Finger Death Punch's Got Your Six, which slides down five spots to No. 7. Ed Sheeran's x also brings a familiar sound to the top 10 with its No. 9 position.
However, Sheeran sits between two new releases from rock. Gary Clark Jr's latest record The Story of Sonny Boy Slim kicks off its chart run at No. 8 with 28,000 units moved. The top 10 is then rounded out by '80s legends Duran Duran, whose Paper Gods moved 25,000 units and landed at No. 10.
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