- Who
- Justin Bieber
- Where
- United States ()
- When
On 29 February 2020, one day before his 26th birthday, Justin Bieber (Canada, b. 1 March 1994) achieved his seventh chart-topping album on the US Billboard 200 chart with Changes.
By comparison, previous record holder Elvis Presley (USA, b. 8 January 1935) was 26 years 337 days old when Blue Hawaii - the soundtrack to the film of the same name - became his seventh US No.1 album on 11 December 1961. Overall, The Beatles scored their seventh US No.1 album - Rubber Soul, on 8 January 1966 - when all four members were aged between 22 and 25. Ringo Starr (b. 7 July 1940), the eldest, was 25 years 185 days old.
Bieber had previously topped the Billboard 200 with My World 2.0 (2010), Never Say Never - The Remixes (2011), Under the Mistletoe (2011), Believe (2012), Believe Acoustic (2013) and Purpose (2015).
Changes debuted at No.1 with first-week sales of 231,000 equivalent album units, leading a top three of new entries that also featured A Boogie Wit da Hoodie (Artist 2.0) and Tame Impala (The Slow Rush), with the previous week's best-seller, Roddy Ricch's Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial, at No.4.
Changes (Def Jam Recordings/RBMG), Bieber's fifth studio album but his first in more than four years, includes the singles "Yummy", "Intentions" and "Forever". He co-wrote every track on the album, which also went to No.1 in the UK, Sweden and his homeland.
