2 in October of that year with 74,000 copies sold in its first week. The act’s last release, 2014’s 747, flew in at No. 4, country trio Lady Antebellum notches its seventh top 10 album, as its new studio effort Heart Break launches with 53,000 units (47,000 in traditional album sales). SZA Strips Down to Delicate, Bare-Bone Vulnerability on 'CTRL'Īt No. Ctrl is SZA’s second top 40-charting effort, following the No. The remainder of its 60,000-start is comprised of TEA (2,000 units). The set was powered by streams, as the title earns 33,000 SEA units (equating to 49.52 million streams for the songs on the album). It bows with 60,000 units, of which 25,000 are in traditional album sales. 1 album has yet to leave the top three positions of the chart during its nine weeks on the list.īuzzed-about singer/songwriter SZA nets her first top 10 album with the arrival of her debut full-length studio effort, Ctrl, at No. is a non-mover with 69,000 units (down 5 percent). 2 on the new Billboard 200, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. (In that same span of time, 16 men and 10 male-dominated groups have topped the chart.)Īt No. Further, Perry is just the second woman to lead the Billboard 200 in 2017 (after Halsey), and the fifth woman to be No. It last happened on the April 2 and April 9, 2016-dated lists, when Rihanna’s Anti and Gwen Stefani’s This Is What the Truth Feels Like held court, respectively. 1s by women for the first time in more than a year. 1, the Billboard 200 has back-to-back No. The album’s sales also benefit from a concert ticket/album bundle sale redemption promotion in association with Perry’s upcoming Witness: The Tour. (She’s the latest artist to employ a ticket/album redemption offer, following acts ranging from Barbra Streisand and The Chainsmokers to Justin Bieber and Metallica.)Īs Perry’s Witness follows Halsey’s Hopeless Fountain Kingdom at No. In addition, Witness was available in a deluxe edition at Target (which came with two exclusive bonus songs). Witness was ushered in by a widely watched Big Brother-style multi-day livestream event that garnered 49 million global views. Witness also logs the largest sales week for an album by a woman since Joanne (170,000). 1 with 201,000 units on the chart dated Nov. Perry’s bow of 180,000 units is the biggest week for an album by a woman in 2017, and the largest since Lady Gaga’s Joanne started at No. Katy Perry's Witness World Wide Generated Over 49 Million Views
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