5 Seconds of Summer hit half million in the US

The debut self-titled LP from Sydney’s 5 Seconds of Summer has hit the half million mark in the United States.

With total sales this week at 507,000, it is the 17^th album to hit silver in the US in 2014. A year ago at this point 26 albums had surpassed the same threshold, although Taylor Swift’s new 1989 is expected to do 1 million first week.

Released in the US on Capitol in July, 5 Seconds of Summer debuted at #1 with first week sales of 259,000. They are the first Australian-based act to debut at #1 in the US with their debut album (Men At Work’s debut album Business As Usual reached #1 in the US in 1982 where it stayed 15 weeks but did not debut at top spot).

5 Seconds of Summer also topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, NZ, Portugal and Spain. In the US, the She Looks So Perfect EP sold 316,000.