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"American Beauty/American Psycho," the group's sixth studio
album, tallied 218,000 total sales units, according to figures
from Nielsen SoundScan for the week ended Jan. 25.
The reformulated Billboard 200 considers album sales, song
downloads and online streaming to compile an album's total sales
units.
The album sold 192,000 copies, 204,000 individual songs and was
streamed nearly 9 million times online. Billboard said it was
the second-biggest sales week for a rock album in the past two
years.
Swift's "1989" sold 119,000 units to hold onto the second spot
for the second consecutive week. Last week's top album,
Grammy-nominee Meghan Trainor's debut, "Title," dipped to third
with 86,000 sales units.
The first album from rapper Joey Bada$$, "B4.Da.$$," entered the
chart at No. 5 with 58,000 in sales.
Other new releases in the top 10 are indie rock group the
Decemberists' "What a Terrible World" at No. 7 and shock rocker
Marilyn Manson's "Pale Emperor" at No. 8.
Singer Bruno Mars and producer Mark Ronson's hit "Uptown Funk!"
was the top downloaded song for the fourth consecutive week with
341,000 in sales, a 15 percent decline from last week.
(Reporting by Eric Kelsey; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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