American heavy metal band Disturbed debuts at the top of the Global Album Chart. 'Immortalized' sold 159,000 copies in its first week, 93,100 of those in the USA alone. It's the band's third album to reach No.1. Their last LP 'Asylum' went to No.1 nearly five years ago in 2010 with 252,000 sales, and their debut Album 'Indestructible' topped the chart with sales of 301,000 in 2008.
'Burning Bridges', the 13th studio Album of the American pop/rock legendary Band Bon Jovi, is this week's second highest debut at No.3, having sold 105,000 copies. The biggest sales were in Germany with an estimated 25,000 units, 23,700 copies were sold in the US,14,500 in United Kingdom, and another 10,100 in Japan. Dr.Dre's new album 'Compton' is at No.2 this week with sales of 113,000. After the album was released on CD, it doubled its sales compared to the previous week. Luke Bryan's 'Kill The Lights' slips to no.4 with sales of 62,000. Jess Glynne's debut Album 'I Cry When I Laugh' is No.1 in the UK and No.5 on the global best-selling Albums chart with sales of 60,000.
The Weeknd remains atop the World's best Singles Chart for a second week!
The track was released on June 8, 2015, as the second single from his upcoming second studio album, 'Beauty Behind The Madness'. It was written by Ali Payami, Savan Kotecha, Max Martin, Abel Tesfaye and Peter Svensson.
The song has received commercial success, peaking at number one on both the Billboard US Hot 100 and the Canadian Hot 100. The single has also peaked at number-one in New Zealand, Denmark, Ireland and South Africa, and was a top-ten hit in other territories, such as Australia, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, to become Tesfaye's most successful single to date. The single has received positive reviews from critics, who noted similarities between the song and works by Michael Jackson!
Ed Sheeran's 'X' returns to the top of the World Album Chart for a third time with sales of 119.000 sales. 'X' debuted at No.1 after its release on June 20, 2014 with sales of 549,000. Two weeks later it went back to No.1 after selling 151,000 more copies. Now after 60 weeks on the chart 'X' returns to No.1, having sold 6,593,000 copies, 3,107,000 of which were sold in 2014. 'X' is the second best-selling Album of 2015, just 280,000 units behind Taylor Swift's '1989' chich has sold 3,387,000 units.
Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, rises atop the tally with 'Can't Feel My Face', his first no.1 smash! The song gets 275.000 points this week, an 8% boost compared to the previous week. Shy behind remains OMI's 'Cheerleader' a third week at no.2 with 272.000 points. Last week's chart leader, 'Drag Me Down' by One Direction slides down at no.7 after a massive 65% points decline to 152.000. 'Lean On' by Major Lazer feat. Mø & DJ Snake climbs back at no.3 in its 20th week on the tally with 250.000 points. Highest debut comes from Japanese male idol group Kanjani 8, their 'Maemuki Scream!' shoots at no.4 with 197.000 points. Rounds out the top five is Walk The Moon's 'Shut Up And Dance' with 168.000 points. Outside our weekly Top 40 waiting among other Fetty Wap's 'Again' at no.44, Adam Lambert's 'Ghost Town' at no.49, Fall Out Boy's 'Uma Thurman' at no.51 and Sam Feldt feat. Kimberley Anne's 'Show Me Love' at no.55 for their first appearance on the big list.
After the horrible global album sales last week, there are at least two big sellers this week: rapper and producer legend Dr. Dre is the big winner with his new effort 'Compton', followed by 'Kill The Lights' from American country star Luke Bryan. Both albums sold much more than 300.000 copies. 'Compton' starts with massive 414.000 sales, 276.000 of it in the USA alone, another 45.700 in United Kingdom. Dr. Dre released many albums during the last 25 years, but only three regular studio albums: 'The Chronic' (1992) sold around 7 million copies to date, the second effort '2001' (1999) was the most successful Dr. Dre album so far with more than 10 million sales. 'Compton' is now the third, and according to Dr. Dre, his final album. Country star Luke Bryan bows at the vice-position with his fifth studio effort 'Kill The Lights' and 340.000 sales. His former studio set 'Crash My Party', arrived at no.1 globally in the week 35, 2013 with 557.000 sales and reached a total of 2,7 million to become his best-selling album to date. Last week's chart-topper, 'Super Very Best' by Japanese popular idol group V6, which started with 152.000 sales, throws down at no.42 this week with 15.000 sales, according to Oricon. Rounding out the top five are Ed Sheeran's 'X' at no.4 with 54.000 sales and Taylor Swift's '1989' at no.5 with 43.000 sales. Some additional sales stats: the soundtrack to 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' sold 15.000 copies last week and reaches a total of 1.845.000 so far, 'My Everything' by Ariana Grande sold 7.000 units last week, 1.625.000 so far, 'Smoke+Mirrors' by Imagine Dragons sold 10.000 units last week and has a total of 899.000 copies so far, 'Drones' by Muse sold 793.000 copies so far, 'Chambre' by Louane 498.000, and 'Chaos And The Calm' by James Bay 638.000.
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