Australian pop rock group 5 Seconds of Summer scored one of the year’s biggest debuts on the weekly Billboard 200 chart on Wednesday, cementing its status as the latest boy band to conquer the United States.
5 Seconds of Summer’s debut self-titled album sold 259,000 copies in its first week, according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan. It became the third most-streamed album on music platform Spotify, with more than 4.4 million streams last week according to the platform.
For 2014, the album’s first-week sales trailed only Coldplay’s “Ghost Stories,” which debuted with 383,000 copies in May and Eric Church’s “The Outsiders,” which opened with 288,000 in February.
