The final first-week sales numbers are in for albums released on Friday, November 13th. According to Hits Daily Double, Justin Bieber's Purpose reigned supreme, with a whopping 649,000 units moved in terms of STS (sales-plus-streaming). British boy band One Direction moved 470K STS units, and Logic took home the number one rap album, as his sophomore album The Incredible True Story with 135,000 STS units sold, beating out projections in the 90K-95K range.
Jeezy's Church in These Streets outperformed projections by selling 107,000 units it's first week. Meanwhile, it was a rough opening for Ty Dolla Sign's debut Free TC, which clocked in at 18th on the charts with 22K STS units moved.
To summarize:
Justin Bieber's Purpose - 504K raw album sales / 649K sales-plus-streaming
Logic's The Incredible True Story -- 110K / 135K
Jeezy's Church in These Streets -- 83K / 107K
Ty Dolla $ign's Free TC - 16K / 22K
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[Edit: numbers have since been updated]
