The NPD sales results—tracking U.S. game sales on a monthly basis—have been released for the month of April 2017, and Persona 5 was the second best selling game of last month.

April 2017 Sales

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe* Persona 5* The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild* MLB 17: The Show Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands Grand Theft Auto V Mass Effect: Andromeda NBA 2K17 Overwatch** Call of Duty: Black Ops II Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Horizon Zero Dawn Lego City Undercover Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix Lego Worlds Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege Battlefield 1 For Honor Nier: Automata Minecraft

*Does not include digital sales

**Battle.net sales not includes

Additionally, according to NPD analyst Mat Piscatella, Persona 5 had the biggest debut for the Persona series by far in the United States:

Persona 5 experienced the strongest debut month for any title in Persona franchise history, with packaged dollar sales five times that of the previous best-selling debut, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4.

Persona 5 was the best selling PS4 game for the month of April 2017:

Persona 5* MLB 17: The Show Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands Horizon Zero Dawn Grand Theft Auto V Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix Mass Effect: Andromeda NBA 2K17 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Overwatch

Previously, it was reported that Persona 5 had debuted at the top of April 2017’s PlayStation Store downloads in North America, and that, as of April 5th, 2017, the game had shipped more than 1.5 million copies worldwide.

Persona 5 had topped the UK sales charts for its opening week, and it had also topped sales charts in Japan.

— VentureBeat