Shawn Mendes Breaks Billboard 200 Chart Record Mendes’ self-titled third studio album makes him the third-youngest solo artist to achieve three No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. The 19-year-old debuted at No. 1 on the chart with his past full-length albums, ‘Illuminate’ (2016) and ‘Handwritten’ (2015). ‘Shawn Mendes’ was released on May 25 and launched with 182,000 equivalent album units by the week of May 31, according to Nielsen Music. 142,000 units were traditional
album sales. ‘Billboard’ reported that the album earned 50.3 million streams for its tracks during its opening week, marking the second-largest streaming week of 2018 for a Pop Album.