Justin Bieber's new album has smashed the record for first week streaming on Spotify, the online music site said.
Purpose, the Canadian pop star's first album in three years, was streamed 205 million times since its release a week earlier, with 77 million of the streams in the United States.
Justin Bieber released Purpose, on which the often-troubled 21-year-old reflects on life in the public eye, the same day that British boy band One Direction - whose fan base is seen as overlapping with Justin Bieber's - put out its own album Made in the A.M.
Spotify said that Made in the A.M. also beat The Weeknd's previous record but did not match Bieber.
Billboard, the pre-eminent US sales chart, also expects Bieber's Purpose to debut at number one and surpass Made in the A.M., which One Direction has said will be its last before a hiatus.
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