'Beauty' - The Weeknd at No. 1
Thanks to some extent to a set of two huge summer singles and also a star-making performance on the MTV Video Music Awards, the Weeknd's new LP Beauty Behind the Madness cruised to Number One for the Billboard 200, compiling the second-bestselling week of 2015 returning to the top spot. Abel Tesfaye's latest sold 326,000 total albums rolling around in its debut week, giving the Weeknd his first Number One album. Only Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, which sold 535,000 copies rolling around in its first week, outsold Beauty Behind the Madness in 2010, Billboard reports. The Weeknd's third major label album was boosted with the success from the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack smash "Earned It" and " Can't Feel My Face ," the people receiving heavy airplay on Apple's new Beats 1 following the singer debuted the track for the Apple Music announcement at the begining of June. Since then, Beauty Behind the Madness has spawne...