All hail the new queen of the music industry- Adele.
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The British songbird – one of two chart-topping singers this year who pointedly snubbed streaming platforms by not releasing her new project on Spotify or Apple Music – is poised to set a new one week Nielsen era album sales record, Billboard reports.
The record for most album sales in an opening week previously belonged to boy band N-Sync, whose 2000 album, No Strings Attached, sold 2.41 million copies in its opening week.
We expected this. Didn’t we?
The first single, “Hello”, which debuted last month has sold more than 2.5 million digital copies and has been on top of Billboard s Digital Songs chart for four consecutive weeks.
In a statement provided by Pandora to EW, “Good news radio listeners, you can now hear all songs from Adele’s latest album 25 on Pandora”.
Singer Adele as she appears on the cover of her number 1 single Hello.
Adele’s officially broken NSYNC’s longstanding sales record.
Adele’s latest achievement comes as she announces European tour dates in 2016, which includes shows in Belfast, Manchester, London, Glasgow and Birmingham.
As of Tuesday morning, just over three day after hitting shelves, Adele’s 25 has sold more than 2,433,000 albums.
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Be Here Now, Oasis’s third album, from back in 1997 is the one to beat that sold 696,000 copies in its first week. Last year, Taylor Swift also skipped releasing her album, “1989”, on the service.
