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Pink's Beautiful Trauma debuts atop albums chart
Written by . Published: October 23 2017
Pop star Pink has shot to the top of the albums chart with her first solo project in five years.
Beautiful Trauma, the follow up to 2012's The Truth About Love, sold 408,000 equivalent units to hit number one on the Billboard 200, earning her the biggest sales week for a female artist in 2017, and the fourth-largest overall this year. Only Kendrick Lamar's DAMN., Drake's More Life, and ÷ (Divide) by Ed Sheeran have sold more during their chart debuts in 2017.
Newlywed rapper Gucci Mane enters the countdown at two with Mr. Davis, ahead of Beck's Colors at three.
Hip-hop star Post Malone stays put at four with Stoney, while Lil Uzi Vert rises two places to five with Luv Is Rage 2.