NEW YORK –  Justin Bieber's "IMAGINE" is the year's top-selling debut album.

Nielsen SoundScan experiences gross sales of 374,000 copies following its unlock final week, giving the 18-year-old Canadian pop singer the fourth Number 1. album and the most efficient gross sales week of his younger profession. "IMAGINE" additionally debuted at Number one. in 29 different countries.

The album crowned Madonna's "MDNA" because the year's most sensible debut up to now and is the best-selling first-week unlock because Drake's "Take Care" got here out in December. Kenny Chesney's "Welcome to the Fishbowl" adopted Bieber remaining week with 193,000 albums bought.

Bieber has sold greater than 15 million albums on account that he placed out his first report in 2009.

Fans has been impatiently expecting the discharge of "Believe," viewing the video for the name unmarried 86 million occasions on YouTube and hanging 4 songs within the Best FORTY of Billboard's Sizzling ONE HUNDRED chart simultaneously.