'' Pure Heroine '' had an 86-percent increase in sales after Lorde 's performance at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards , rising from number five back to number three on the '' Billboard '' 200 and selling 68,000 copies . After slipping to number eight for the week ending 19 February , " Pure Heroine " rose to number seven with 39,000 copies sold ( a nine-percent increase ) . It rose to number six the following week , selling 30,000 copies and passing the one-million mark with 1.01 million copies sold . '' Pure Heroine '' was the first debut album to reach the one-million mark since October 2013 ; Lorde was the first woman whose debut album sold a million copies since April 2011 and Adele 's '' 19 '' . According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry ( IFPI ) , the album sold 1.4 million copies in 2013 and two million copies in 2014 , with 3.4 million combined copies for both years
56th Annual Grammy Awards
56th Annual Grammy Awards
Pure Heroine