Pink sold more copies of her album in Australia than the UK last week

How popular is Pink in Australia? Her latest album Beautiful Trauma sold more copies here than in the entire United Kingdom last week. But there’s still one act she hasn’t beaten ...

US singer-songwriter Pink for Hit. TV

PINK sold more copies of her new album in Australia than the UK last week.

Pink’s Beautiful Trauma sold 78,040 copies in Australia last week to easily become her fifth No.1.

By stark comparison, Ed Sheeran’s Divide at No. 2 sold just 4106 copies.

In the UK Beautiful Trauma sold 70,074 copies — meaning Pink sold more albums in Australia last week than the entire United Kingdom.

Australia is Pink’s most popular market in the world — she is now up to 30 shows on her 2018 Australian tour, spread out over almost two months.

Beautiful Trauma even reverses the declining trend in music sales — it sold more first week copies than 2012’s The Truth About Love which debuted at No.1 on 74,293 copies. Before that 2008’s Funhouse sold 86,273 copies in its first week of release.

Turns out people will still happily pay for new albums ... as long as they’re by Pink. Picture: Sony

Beautiful Trauma’s remarkable sales in a year when albums can reach No. 1 on around 4000 sales suggest people will still buy music if they have a connection to the artist.

However Pink’s first week sales are still behind Ed Sheeran’s Divide, which sold 97, 014 copies upon release in March.

Divide is now five times platinum — Beautiful Trauma went double platinum upon release.

Complicating things is the fact that when Divide was release ARIA did not factor listening on streaming sites into overall sales.

Beautiful Trauma’s 78,040 sales is made up of 49,616 physical CD sales, 26,824 digital downloads and just 1600 streams.

In the UK, 64,555 of Pink’s 70,074 sales came from physical sales or downloads.

While Pink’s audience prefer physical CDs to streaming, Sheeran is one of the most streamed artists in the world.

Had Divide been eligible for streaming in March he would have had closer to 110,000 first week sales when streams were calculated in.

Ed Sheeran may be incapacitated but still had the biggest first-week sales in Australia this year. Pic: AP

His success with streaming helped single Shape of You break ABBA’s record to be the longest-running No. 1 in Australian chart history this year — clocking up 15 weeks on top.

Pink’s first threat to staying at No. 1 comes this week with the first solo album by former One Direction member Niall Horan.

The album, Flicker, reached the No. 1 slot on iTunes upon release on Friday, but Beautiful Trauma has since dethroned it.

Horan will benefit from a 60 Minutes special last night.

Channel 7’s Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar saw INXS’ Greatest Hits jump to No. 12, although while his self-titled solo album sat in the iTunes Top 10 last week it did not make the ARIA Top 100.

The next album to legitimately challenge Pink and Ed Sheeran’s first week sales will be Taylor Swift’s Reputation, released on November 10.