Shawn Mendes has graduated from ruling Vine to dominating the charts. The singer-songwriter’s debut full-length album, Handwritten, released April 14 through Island Records, arrives at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 119,000 units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music.
Traditional album sales made up the bulk of Mendes’ album launch, with 106,000 copies sold: The LP also bows at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart. That’s a fairly robust sales figure, considering he has yet to claim a radio hit; none of his songs have reached Billboard‘s airplay charts. Instead, the high-schooler, who first gained fame by posting six-second video loops to Vine, has been boosted by social media, making a splash on the Billboard + Twitter Top Tracks chart. On that tally, which measures the week’s most shared songs on Twitter, Mendes has logged three top 20 hits, with “Life of the Party” reaching No. 1. He also has climbed as high as No. 15 on the Social 50 chart, which tracks the most active artists on social networking sites.
Although Mendes hasn’t yet appeared on an airplay survey, radio stations haven’t ignored his songs entirely. His single “Something Big” was played on six mainstream top 40 stations in the most recent tracking week (for a total of 81 plays). Its video has done steady business on YouTube, garnering nearly 14 million global views since its release five months ago.
Mendes is the youngest artist to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 in nearly five years. The next-youngest artist with a No. 1 on the tally was none other than fellow social media sensation Justin Bieber, on May 29, 2010, when My World 2.0 spent its fourth and final week at the top. Bieber was 16 years and 2 months old at the time — just six months younger than Mendes, who joins a sizable list of teens to claim No. 1 albums, including Bobby Brown, Debbie Gibson, Britney Spears and Stevie Wonder.
Handwritten tops the Billboard 200 following the top five success of Mendes’ self-titled EP, which debuted and peaked at No. 5 in 2014. It moved 48,000 copies in its first week, and has sold 101,000 to date.