Justin isn’t the only person celebrating a #1 song on iTunes this week. One Direction‘s newest release “Diana” has reached #1 on EVERY COUNTRY except Lithuania. Now that’s a lot of countries! Should we be worried that “PYD” didn’t do as well?
Justin might be sick and had to cancel his concert but things ain’t all bad (see what I did there? lol). The new single was just released earlier today and it’s already hit #1 in 42 countries at the moment. Is your country on the list?
Even without Def Jam’s help, Bad Day manages to hit #1 in 17 countries thanks to devoted fans everywhere. Not such a bad day after all.
Justin’s new collaboration with Tyga “Wait For A Minute” was just released on iTunes today and it’s already hit the top of the charts in Sweden. Yay! Congrats on another #1 on iTunes!
If you haven’t heard it listen to it here.
It’s official. Justin’s new album “Believe” has given JB his forth #1 album since his debut in December of 2009 with “My World” with sales of 374,000 in it’s first week. No other artists have had that many #1 albums in that span of time.
“Believe” is also the biggest album debut of 2012 so far, surpassing the 359,000 start of Madonna’s “MDNA.” (The last artist to earn a larger launch was Drake’s “Take Care” on Dec. 3, 2011. It debuted with 631,000 albums. Adele’s “21” sold 730,000 albums a week after the Grammy show this year after she won multiple awards but it was not a 2012 debut.)
Justin also notches his own personal best sales week, beating the 291,000 that “My World 2.0” sold in its second week back in April of 2010.
Believe’s original forecast of 410,000-440,000 albums was inflated by the huge first-day sales and significant number of pre-orders.
The four JB albums to hit the top of Billboard 200 charts are:
- My World 2.0
- Never Say Never: The Remixes
- Under The Mistletoe
- Believe
(“My World” debuted at #5 and “My World Accoustic” reached #7.)
Justin Bieber & Mariah Carey on the set of "All I Want For Christmas" 2011
The chart started this year and ranks holiday songs using airplay information from more than 1,200 radio stations, along with download sales and streaming data.
Justin actually has 3 songs on the chart. His duet with Mariah in a new version of “All I Want” jumped up to #24. JB also has another song on the chart, with his version of “Drummer Boy” at #9.
Non-Christmas songs made the list as well, like Adam Sandler’s “The Chanukah Song”, which came in at #20.
Here’s the top five:
1. Justin Bieber – “Mistletoe”
2. Mariah Carey – “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
3. Jose Feliciano – “Feliz Navidad”
4. Nat King Cole – “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)”
5. Brenda Lee – “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree”
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JB’s newest CD reached the top of the Billboard 100 albums this morning making “Never Say Never: The Remixes” his second official #1 album.
Bieber’s “Never Say Never: The Remixes” sold 161,000 copies during the week ended Feb. 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It’s the first time a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 has sold more than 160,000 units since Taylor Swift’s “Speak Now” sold 276,000 copies during the week ended Dec. 26.
Bieber debuted at No. 1 last April when his first full-length release “My World 2.0” sold 283,000 copies. More stunning: All four of Bieber’s albums are in the top 40 this week, the first time an artist has managed the feat since Garth Brooks in 1993. “My Worlds 2.0” is No. 8, “My Worlds Acoustic” is No. 18, and “My World” is No. 31.
In addition to the continued success of Bieber’s film of the same name, with sales to date of $48 million after two weekends of release across North America, the teen phenom’s big week was no doubt also fueled by the Feb. 13 Grammy Awards, where he performed on the show (but lost both his races).
CALGARY HERALD
