Senjutsu Iron Maiden 's seventeenth album , continues to achieve incredible numbers for the band. After reaching number one on major digital platforms in several countries, the band has now reached the Top 3 of the Billboard 200.
The third position is the best of Maiden's career. Previously, The Final Frontier (2010) and The Book of Souls (2015) had reached fourth place on the album charts in the United States.
According to Billboard , Senjutsu is the band's fourth album to reach the Top 10 best-selling albums. Including album sales, streaming platforms, and digital track sales, this week's sales are equivalent to 64,000 copies.
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Of this total, 61,000 are traditional sales of the entire album, making Senjutsu the best-selling album of the week in the United States. During the same period, Maiden had 3.5 million streams on streaming platforms, equivalent to 3,000 units sold.
Sales figures place Iron Maiden second among the best debuts of 2021 for rock bands, behind only Foo Fighters ' Medicine at Midnight , with 64,000 traditional sales and 70,000 combined units in one week.
Already in the UK's Top 40 rock and metal albums chart, maintained by the Official Charts , Senjutsu is in first place. Last week, Iron Maiden took first place on the chart of best-selling albums in the country after a close competition with Drake, with Iron Maiden in physical copy sales and downloads, while the rapper had the lead in streaming.
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