Seeing that Adele’s first single off her new album is doing remarkably well, it’s not farfetched to say that her third album will hit the sales projections industry experts are saying it will reach.
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The album is predicted to break the first week sales record held by *NSYNC since 2000. “As music consumption has changed over the years, to be able to sell over 2 million albums in just a couple of days is unprecedented”.
It is increasingly rare for an artist to top the one million opening week sales with a new album because fans are driven more and more to online streaming to consume music. She also wrote, “The last month has been a whirlwind, its literally taken my breath away”.
Take That’s Progress hit 217,500 sales on its first day, while Oasis’s Be Here Now sold 424,000 copies.
The music industry has placed enormous hopes in Adele with “25”. The album will be released on November 20.
However, a few well-respected music sites have thrown their support behind the Londoner, like the 405 who have stated that the album is a “saviour record for a quarter life crisis, a sing-a-long for one of life’s most hard stages”.
But how did a self-described “loud and bolshie” (British slang for unruly and clamorous) gal who reportedly never wanted to be famous dethrone Taylor Swift as the music industry’s savior?
Enya’s first album seven years, Dark Sky Island, starts at Number 4 on today’s Official Chart Update, and last week’s chart-toppers One Direction complete the Top 5 with Made In The A.M.
The video logged 27 million views in the first 24 hours – a record, as were the 1.1 million digital downloads of the song, obliterating the previous record of 636,000 copies for rapper Flo Rida’s 2009 single “Right Round”. “The idea that people might look back to my music in 50 years’ time was a real spur to doing this”.
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That would be the highest weekly sales for any album since at least 1991, when SoundScan – a tracking service now owned by Nielsen – began collecting reliable data from retailers.
