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Halsey, 22, who shot to international fame last year as the
featured singer on The Chainsmokers' hit summer single "Closer,"
sold 105,000 units of her second studio album.
The last woman to top the Billboard 200 was Lady Gaga in
November 2016 with "Joanne," Billboard said. Sales for Katy
Perry's heavily-promoted new album "Witness" will be tallied
next week.
Kendrick Lamar's "Damn." held onto second place on the Billboard
200 with 72,000 more units sold in its eighth week, while The
Beatles extended their chart comeback with a further 44,000
sales for 50th anniversary remastered "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band", which dipped from 3rd to the No.4 spot.
The Billboard 200 album chart tallies units from album sales,
song sales (10 songs equal one album) and streaming activity
(1,500 streams equal one album).
On the digital songs chart, which measures online single sales,
Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi's "Despacito" featuring Justin
Bieber held onto the top spot for a fifth week with another
140,0000 copies sold.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Grant McCool)
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