Stadiums

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful' sold 137,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release in the US, Billboard reports, over double the number sold by its nearest rival, Taylor Swift's '1989' album, which sold 66,000 equivalent album units.

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“I guess although I’ve always dealt in fantasy and metaphor when I came to writing, that meant the songs this time were dealing much more in reality. Ceremonials was so fixated on death and water, and the idea of escape or transcendence through death, but the new album became about trying to learn how live, and how to love in the world rather than trying to escape from it. Which is frightening because I’m not hiding behind anything but it felt like something I had to do.”