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The Weeknd has scored his fifth No. 1 album with \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow,<\/a>\u201d posting the biggest overall numbers on the Billboard chart since Taylor Swift nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n The release of \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow,\u201d which the poppy-yet-creepy Canadian star announced at a livestreamed concert in S\u00e3o Paulo in September, was delayed by a week<\/a> to Jan. 31 because of the Los Angeles wildfires. But then it got a prominent boost when the Weeknd performed a two-song medley<\/a> on the Grammy Awards broadcast last week, revealing that he had quashed his four-year boycott over the show\u2019s voting process.<\/p>\n \u201cHurry Up Tomorrow,\u201d the Weeknd\u2019s sixth studio album, had the equivalent of 490,500 sales in the United States, according to the tracking service Luminate. Although the Weeknd is a streaming heavyweight \u2014 more than 20 of his tracks have garnered at least a billion clicks<\/a> on Spotify \u2014 the album\u2019s opening-week numbers were driven by unit sales. It sold 183,000 digital downloads, 99,000 CDs and 77,000 copies on vinyl, the Weeknd\u2019s best week in that format. (There were even 1,000 on cassette.) Its 22 tracks were streamed 172 million times.<\/p>\n The album\u2019s total number of 490,500 \u2014 a composite derived from a formula used by Luminate and Billboard to reconcile the various music formats \u2014 was the biggest weekly take since last April, when Swift\u2019s \u201cTortured Poets\u201d burst out of the gate with 2.6 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n