As expected, Justin Bieber's Believe owned the charts in its first week of release in a very big way: It hit number one in 30 countries. Still, the Biebs' numbers are paltry in comparison to what boybands 'N Sync and Backstreet Boys pulled in the early aughts, and were less than half Adele's biggest sales week this year. Also in music news, Katy Perry can't wait to let her real hair grow back, Adam Levine says he and Christina Aguilera have no beef, and Muse's "Survival" is the official song of the London Olympics. Justin Bieber scored the biggest debut of the year with his new album Believe, narrowly edging out Madonna's MDNA with 374,000 copies sold. That's still less than half the number Adele sold after her Grammy performance in February, but still a worthy achievement for Bieber, who can now celebrate his fourth No. 1 album. There's also the fact that he replicated this success in the U.K., Canada, Australia, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, and a number of other countries. Everybody wants a piece of the Biebs.
Still, Justin's sales are a far cry from the numbers that his teen pop predecessors used to pull in the late '90s and early '00s. The biggest sales week ever still belongs to 'N Sync's No Strings Attached, which sold a staggering 2.4 million copies in the U.S. during its first week of release in March 2000.
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