The Weeknd won his fifth No. 1 album with “Hurry Up Tomorrow,” and recorded the largest total on the Billboard charts since Taylor Swift almost a year ago.
The release of “Hoursh Up Tomorrow,” the Poppy-bending Canadian star announced at a live streaming concert in Sao Paulo in September, was a week late until January 31st due to a wildfire in Los Angeles. But then it got a noticeable boost last week when Weekund played a medley of two songs on the Grammy Awards broadcast.
According to The Tracking Service Luminate, Weeknd's sixth studio album, “Tomorrow,” amounted to 490,500 sales in the US. Weeknd is a streaming heavyweight, but over 20 of his tracks have clicked Spotify at least 1 billion times, but the album's opening week numbers were driven by unit sales. 183,000 digital downloads, 99,000 CDs and 77,000 copies were sold at Vinyl. (There were as many as 1,000 on the cassette.) Those 22 tracks were streamed 172 million times.
The total number of albums was a composite derived from the formula used by Luminate and Billboard to adjust various musical formats, but last year, when Swift's “tortured poet” exploded from the gate with 2.6 million people It was the biggest weekly take since the month.
Also, this week Bad Bunny's “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” (“I should have taken more photos”) fell to second place at the top three weeks later, while SZA's “SOS” reached third place.
The Grammys provided a modest boost to some of the big winners and nominees of the night. Kendrick Lamar, who filmed Record of the Year (“Not Like Us”), came in first place on “GNX”, but that number went up slightly. After performing but returning home empty-handed, Billy Eilish moved five spots to fifth place with her LP “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” “The Midwest Princess Ascends and Descends.”
