Shawn Mendes hits No 1 on Billboard album chart

The rap feud of the moment was not a threat to Shawn Mendes.

Mendes, the genial 19-year-old pop singer who got his start on Vine, easily scored his third straight No 1 album on the Billboard chart this week with his self-titled third LP, topping the first-week results for ASAP Rocky and Pusha-T, whose back-and-forth with Drake generated plenty of chatter.

Shawn Mendes earned a total of 182,000 album units, including 142,000 in sales and 50 million digital streams, according to Nielsen Music. (The album sales were helped along by a ticket-bundle deal that included the new release with tickets to Mendes’ tour.) The singer’s latest, which includes the current radio hit In My Blood, topped the first-week sales totals for his previous No 1 albums, Illuminate in 2016 and Handwritten in 2015.

Pusha-T’s Daytona came in at No 3 in its first week, falling short of Post Malone’s streaming smash Beerbongs & Bentleys, which was No 2 in its fifth week out. Daytona, the Kanye West-produced album that included the lines that rekindled an increasingly personal battle with Drake, sold 39,000 albums and had 54 million streams, according to Nielsen, for a total of 77,000 album units.

ASAP Rocky’s Testing, which dropped without a hit single or hip-hop drama but had an accompanying art installation, landed at No 4 with 75,000 units (bolstered by 89 million streams), while Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy held at No 5 in its eighth week.