Baby boy Justin Bieber to make history again

Teen dream Justin Bieber this week becomes the youngest male solo artist to land a #1 album sinces Stevie Wonder cored in August 1963, at age 13, with Little Stevie Wonder: The 12 Year Old Genius. (Wonder was 12 when he recorded the album, 13 when it was released.) Bieber, who turned 16 on March 1, scores with My World 2.0.

Bieber’s album sold 283,000 copies in its first week, which constitutes the best showing for an album by a teen act since Taylor Swift’s Fearless, which sold even better in two of its first six weeks in November and December 2008. It’s the best showing by a teen heartthrob type of act since Jonas Brother’s A Little Bit Longer started with sales of 525,000 in August 2008. (JoBros’ subsequent Lines, Vines And Trying Times sold 247,000 copies when it was released in June. I think the teen torch has been passed.)
Bieber’s previous release, My World, jumps from #10 to #5 in its 19th week. This is its highest ranking to date, topping its #6 debut. Bieber is the first artist to have two albums in the top five simultaneously since Nelly scored with Suit and Sweat in October 2004. Impressively, Bieber got to this point without the tremendous promotional muscle of the Disney empire, which has boosted such past and present teen stars as JoBros, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Hilary Duff.

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