Adele: with 25
In its sixth week on sale, 25 moved 363,000 album equivalent units (307,000 of which were pure sales), Billboard reports. Though Adele took a 70 percent major sales dip following a pre-Christmas bump (where she moved over a million copies for the third non-consecutive week), she still managed to beat out other recent releases by 100,000 units.
Justin Bieber's new album Purpose is spending a third straight week at No. 2, just two months after debuting at No. 1 itself, with 217,000 units.
Unsurprisingly due to the Christmas holiday, there were no new debuts in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, though positions were shuffled around. For instance, One Direction's Made in the A.M. rose two spots to No. 4, The Weeknd's Beauty Behind the Madness jumped up three spots to No. 6, likely thanks to some redeemed iTunes gift cards from the holiday.
Other albums slipped in positions. Chris Brown's Royalty, which previously debuted at No. 3 on the charts, fell five positions to land at No. 8 with 55,000 units. Taylor Swift's always present sales juggernaut 1989 also fell one position this week, down to No. 9.
Though no new LPs debuted in the top 10 this week, a few 2015 favorites broke back into the highest portion of the chart thanks to year-end sales. Twenty One Pilots' breakout album Blurryface vaulted up eight spots to No. 3 with 79,000 units moved (46,000 of which are pure sales). Twenty One Pilots not only were helped out by an iTunes sale for $7.99 but also the continued rise of their single "Stressed Out."
Other albums that reemerged in the top 10 include Fetty Wap's self-titled debut at No. 5 (a 16 spot boost) and Selena Gomez's Revival which rose eight spots to No. 7, thanks largely in part to her new singles "Same Old Love" and "Hands to Myself."
The final album in this week's top 10 goes to Bryson Tiller, who sees a new high with Trapsoul at No. 10.
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