Rules aren't retroactive. Otherwise, they would have had to go back and change things like past number ones, so that songs like "Torn" and "Don't Speak" would be at number one instead of whatever else there was at the time.
Rules aren't retroactive. Otherwise, they would have had to go back and change things like past number ones, so that songs like "Torn" and "Don't Speak" would be at number one instead of whatever else there was at the time.
In the United States, My World 2.0 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 selling 283,000 copies in its first week, at the age of sixteen, the charting made him the youngest solo male act to top the chart since 1963 when Stevie Wonder did with The 12 Year Old Genius, and the first artist to occupy two top five spots on the chart since Nelly in 2004. The album fell to number two in its second week in the U.S. but sales were up 3% to 291,000 totaling at 596,000 at that point. This feat made Bieber the first act since The Beatles to debut at number one, and sell more the following week.