{"id":173055,"date":"2025-09-27T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173055\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T15:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:18:07","slug":"chart-check-ed-sheerans-play-enters-the-billboard-200-with-his-lowest-first-week-sales-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/173055\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart Check: Ed Sheeran&#8217;s &#8216;Play&#8217; Enters the Billboard 200 with His Lowest First-Week Sales to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/chart-check-ed-sheerans-play-enters-the-billboard-200-with-his-lowest-first-week-sales-to-date\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ed-sheeran-thatgrapejuice-2025-stream-album-tidal-spotify-apple-music-play-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"316\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/ed-sheeran\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Sheeran<\/a>\u2018s Billboard 200 top 5 streak may still be in tact thanks to the lukewarm opening of his latest album, the September 12-released \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/09\/stream-ed-sheerans-play-album\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Play<\/a>,\u2019 but the project\u2019s debut marks a career low for the 4-time GRAMMY winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Details inside.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">First-Week Sales (SPS):\u00a0 71,000 units<\/p>\n<p>First-Week Sales (Pure): 51,000 units<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Billboard 200 Debut:\u00a0 #5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2018Play\u2019 premiered on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/twenty-one-pilots-breach-number-one-billboard-200-chart-1236071465\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">updated Billboard 200<\/a> in the #5 slot to total first-week sales of 71,000, the lowest Stateside opening figures of his career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sum was aided by its availability across a deluxe CD boxed set containing a T-shirt and a signed CD, a standard streaming and digital download album, more than 10 vinyl variants, four standard CD variants, two deluxe CD editions, and a deluxe streaming and digital download album with five bonus tracks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite the valiant effort, the LP\u2019s premiere position still comes as his lowest arrival since his inaugural album \u2018Plus\u2018 debuted and peaked at #5 in 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Led to Billboard battle by singles \u2018Camera,\u2019 \u2018A Little More,\u2019 \u2018Sapphire,\u2019 \u2018Old Phone,\u2019 and \u2018Azizam,\u2019\u00a0the September 12-released project also comes as his first without a Hot 100 top 20 hit preceding its release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Look below to see who joins him in the top 10 of this week\u2019s Billboard 200.<\/p>\n<p>See the full chart <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/2025-09-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran\u2018s Billboard 200 top 5 streak may still be in tact thanks to the lukewarm opening 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