Justin Timberlake scores the fastest selling album of 2013 so far, and his third Number 1, with The 20/20 Experience.
How do you follow three consecutive weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart?
If you’re the unstoppable Justin Timberlake you simply go and bring home the fastest selling album of the year, too! Chart domination complete. Following three weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart, the US superstar now secures his third UK Number 1 album in a row with The 20/20 Experience.
Notching up sales of nearly 106,000 copies this week, the album which features two Top 5 singles (Suit & Tie and Number 1 Mirrors) today takes its place as the fastest selling album of 2013, toppling reigning title holder David Bowie’s The Next Day. The 20/20 Experience has outsold the rest of this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 5 combined.
David Bowie slips one place to Number 2 with The Next Day, while Emeli Sande holds steady at Number 3 with Our Version Of Events. The Motion Picture Cast Recording of Les Miserables bounces up six places to Number 4 following the release of a new deluxe edition earlier this week, and Bastille’s Bad Blood (Number 5) completes this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 5.
This is a good total, but not as spectacular as it is in the US. I really think coming out with a polarizing, non-pop friendly single like "Suit & Tie" hurt him outside of America....he should be easily outselling Bruno and Olly (although they did have the Holiday season). But this is a true comeback for him