Justin Bieber album smashes Spotify record

While Bieber may have missed out on top honours with his new album goal, it’s not all bad news for him either after he entered the charts at number two.

And it doesn’t stop there for Bieber’s takeover this week, with every track from the album charting inside the Top 100, eight of which cracked the Top 40 – the first time ever that a living act has achieved this many entries simultaneously in the Official Singles Chart Top 40.

The Canadian heartthrob dominates this week’s run down with three singles in the top five – the previously mentioned chart-topper Sorry, Love Yourself at number three and What Do You Mean? – now at number five.

“Lennon’s “Imagine” was top, “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” was third and “(Just Like) Starting Over” fifth in January 1981, the month after he was shot dead in NY.

The closest was Elvis Presley 58 years ago in 1957.

Justin Bieber’s new album has smashed the record for first week streaming on Spotify, the online music site said Friday, November 20.

Bieber barely trailed One Direction, raking in 90,000 sales, in the United Kingdom Per Billboard, if not for Made in the A.M.’s sales, goal would have been the fastest-selling album of the year across the pond.

Both albums beat the previous biggest debut of 2015, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, which shifted 89,000 copies of Chasing Yesterday in March (15). “Sorry” pushed Adele’s “Hello” slipped to second place from the top spot it had occupied for three weeks.

One Direction’s first album since the departure of Zayn Malik earlier this year is their fourth out of five albums to top the chart, following 2012’s Take Me Home, 2013’s Midnight Memories and 2014’s Four.

Former chart-topper If I Can Dream by Elvis Presley falls to number three.