Adele has overtaken Oasis’s 18-year sales record with her latest album 25, as she claimed a new United Kingdom chart victory.
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Fans applauded the tour, Adele’s first in four years, on Twitter while media sites noted that the 27-year-old singer appeared to have overcome her self-professed fear of performing before large crowds. Those deals give artists and labels the ability to withhold specific songs and albums when they choose to, which is why you see major names like Adele and Taylor Swift withholding albums to boost physical sales or for use as a bargaining chip.
Industry forecasters suggest the album could finish the week with 2.9 million sold, because Adele can shatter even numbers by the power of her voice alone.
“I feel like my life is flashing by / And all I can do is watch and cry”, she sings to a delicate, Spanish-tinged guitar on “Million Years Ago“.
In the age of music piracy and streaming, Adele has done what was once thought to be the impossible, she’s sold more than 3 million copies of 25 in the first week of US sales, shattering records, and that sales number could still grow yet.
Despite Martin’s status as pop’s most prolific mastermind, Adele says she had never heard of him.
“Hello, it’s me, Adele”, she said before bursting into laughter. In another time-out-of-joint example, “25 ” is projected to break first-week CD sales records set by NSync’s “No Strings Attached” in 2000 (you know, one of the last years you still had something to play CDs in).
There are slightly more than two days left in the sales tracking week to be tabulated (as it ends at the close of business on Thursday, Nov. 26).
The hitmaker waxes nostalgic with this particular song, which was a last minute addition to her album.
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This one talks about a serious relationship that is moving on to the next level and getting frightened by it, Adele explains. “It is on course to match 21, and becoming the biggest selling studio album of all time is within its grasp”. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. It makes him the first male artist to occupy three simultaneous spaces in the singles chart top five since John Lennon in 1981.
