New albums released the previous week by Justin Bieber and One Direction, which reached number one and two respectively, sold less than gold status (7,500 sales).
It still remains unavailable on streaming services such as as Spotify and Apple Music.
The album has sold more than 2.4 million copies in the US since it was released last week, beating the first-week sales record set by Nsync's No Strings Attached in 2000.