Beautiful Trauma is the most highly sold album in America right now
Pink's new album, Beautiful Trauma has sold 384,000 CDs and downloads and has entered the Billboard 200 at the top, giving it the best pure album sales tally in an opening week since fellow Sony/ATV songwriter Drake’s Views sold 852,000 CDs and downloads in its opening week in the spring of 2016.
Once streams are taken into account, Beautiful Trauma achieved 408,000 album-equivalent units in its opening week in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music, giving Pink her second Billboard 200 chart-topper after 2012’s The Truth About Love. The new album also debuted at No. 1 in the U.K. where it achieved more than 70,000 equivalent sales across all formats and additionally starts at No. 1 in Australia and Canada. It begins at No. 2 in Germany and France.
Beautiful Trauma’s first single “What About Us” is one of Pink’s biggest hits to date, reaching No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in France and No. 3 in the U.K. and Germany. The album’s title track, which Pink co-wrote with Sony/ATV songwriter Jack Antonoff, has also become a hit in its own right as has the cut “Revenge”, which features Eminem.