Justin Bieber vs One Direction In Album Sales: Who Won?

As per USA Today, this current album’s unit sales tops their previous one, “Four”, as it garnered only 387,000 copies in its maiden week a year ago. The album is already on track to break the all-time one-week US album sales record, previously held by *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached.

Justin Bieber dropped his new album’s cover on Instagram on October 9.

The Canadian superstar came out on top in a showdown with One Direction’s latest, “Made In The A.M.”, which debuts at No. 2 with 459,000 units including 402,000 in pure album sales. In February, Drake’s album collected a total of 535,000 units.

Next week will see Adele’s 25 hit the chart, which sold over 900,000 copies through the iTunes Store alone on just its first day of release.

One Direction, who will also hit the stage, is nominated for artist of the year, pitting the group against Grande, Bryan, Minaj and Taylor Swift.

Is there a bigger pop star that Justin Bieber in the world right now?

Though the Biebz couldn’t overcome Adele’s “Hello” for the No. 1 spot, his new songs “What Do You Mean“, “Love Yourself” and “Sorry” all fared well on the charts.

While Bieber’s show-closing performance was the No. 5 moment in conversation, he moved up to No. 2 when talking artists overall.

With the iconic sale, “Purpose” has become Bieber’s sixth consecutive number one album and his best-selling launch ever. The others are Logic’s The Incredible True Story, Jeezy‘s Church In These Streets and Chris Young’s I’m Comin’ Over.