Shawn Mendes has a lot to celebrate this week – with the best sales week of his career so far!
He has also been pretty busy promoting this week. Sia praised him and there were even discussions of a Niall Horan collaboration.
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Shawn Mendes Nabs His Second #1 with Illuminate on the Billboard Charts
According to Billboard, Shawn Mendes took home the U.S. #1 on the Billboard 200 with Illuminate. In order to achieve this feat, he sold 145,000 copies (with streaming / SPS included) in the United States. In terms of pure sales, fans bought 121,000 copies of his album.
![Shawn.](https://superfame.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/shawn.jpg)
Despite overall traditional sales weakening in the music industry, Shawn still managed to have the best U.S. sales week in his career. His previous album, Handwritten, topped this chart at #1 last year with 119,000 sales (with streaming / SPS included).
![Shawn Mendes.](https://superfame.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/shawn-mendes-guitar.jpg)
This means he has nabbed two #1 albums by the age of 18 – an amazing feat. In fact, only Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Hillary Duff and LeAnn Rimes have done this.
The #2 charter this week was fellow Canadian Drake, who nabbed 50,000 units.