Ed Sheeran scores fifth Number 1 on Official Albums Chart with Equals: “Thank you for listening”
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officialcharts.comEd Sheeran’s = (Equals) enters straight in at Number 1 with huge opening week numbers on the Official Albums Chart. The record is Ed’s fifth to top the chart, and opens with 139,000 chart sales, outperforming the rest of this week’s Top 30 combined.
It’s the biggest opening week for an album in the UK this year – and biggest since Ed’s third album Divide, just over four years ago in March 2017.
68% of Equals’ opening week number is physical sales, including 11,600 copies on vinyl (the week’s best-seller on wax), while 18% comes from streaming, and 14% on downloads.
Celebrating the news, Ed Sheeran told OfficialCharts.com: “Thank you so much for making Equals the Number 1 album in the UK this week.
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