the album opened at number one in 17 territories around the world, taking the top spot in countries including the us, the uk, canada, france, australia and brazil and shipped 4.7 million units worldwide in its first week. in its first week of release, 1.2 million units were shipped in europe: 300,000 units in the uk (where 115,000 were sold the first week) and more than 200,000 units were shipped in germany, france and spain. in australia it shipped 150,000 units the first week.