By Chris Willman Music Writer To probably no one’s surprise, the blockbuster release from the Weeknd tops the albums chart for a second week, even with big names like 5 Seconds of Summer, Dua Lipa and Pearl Jam crashing into the top 10.
The Rolling Stone chart shows the star’s “After Hours” accumulating 146,500 album units in week 2, down from 460,000 the previous week, which represented the best opening figure for the year to date.
This week’s tally for the Weeknd includes 48,500 actual whole-album sales, 42,700 individual song sales and 113.9 million streams.
The Weeknd — subject of the cover story in this week’s print issue of Variety — also has the top song of the week with “Blinding Lights,” which racked up 22.7 million song streams
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