Sam Smith scored his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart with his sophomore effort, The Thrill of It All.
Smith's latest work earned 237,000 equivalent album units, according to Billboard. The 185,000 sold through traditional album sales far eclipses his previous best week mark by his debut album, In the Lonely Hour, which moved 166,000 units and peaked at No. 2. Lonely Hour went on to sell 2.4 million copies.
Maroon 5's Red Pill Blues pulled in a respectable 122,000 equivalent album units, 94,000 of which were in traditional album sales. It was enough to finish in second. Red Pill Blues wasn't able to outperform the band's previous effort, 2014's V, which debuted at the top spot after selling 164,000 copies.
For the second week in a row, Chris Brown's Heartbreak on a Full Moon finished in third. After moving 68,000 units in its first (much complained about shortened week), Brown's latest effort earned 73,000 units in its extended week on the Billboard 200 chart. On the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart (dated Nov. 18), Brown scored a seventh No. 1 with those numbers earned in the week ending Nov. 2.
Heartbreak has already experienced a decline in sales (20,000 sold) and track equivalent album units (3,000 units), down 22 percent and 11 percent, respectively. On the bright side, the streaming equivalent units were on the rise, pulling in 50,000 units, a 28 percent increase.
Meanwhile, Without Warning by 21 Savage, Offset, and Metro Boomin continues to perform admirably on Billboard 200 chart, slipping just one spot to No. 5 in its second week. The album moved 56,000 units, a four percent increase from the previous week.
