Oasis’s Be Here Now in the year 1997 became number one after it sold 696,000 copies in 1997.
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What’s more, the album is on course to be the fastest-selling of all time in the UK.
There was little doubt she’d storm to Number 1, but today the Official Charts Company can confirm that Adele’s 25 is the biggest Number 1 album ever.
“The statistics surrounding the album are staggering, topped by the simple fact that no album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history of British music”.
Adele made her comeback earlier this year as she released “Hello”, her first single in four years.
Adele’s new album, already a best-seller for 2015, won’t play on Spotify or Apple Music – but you can hear it on Pandora, much to the delight of Pandora’s investors. Just like her albums 19 and 21, she said that after some time had passed, the album would be made available to the fans to stream. While Adele’s team may have urged her to sign up with Apple Music or Spotify, it seems that the success of 25’s hard copies may not need these services going forward.
The ‘N Sync first-week record has held strong for 15 years, and has always been considered unbreakable because music sales have dropped dramatically in succeeding years as consumers have shifted away from traditional sales to file-sharing and, more recently, to streaming services.
Nielsen Music said Monday that Adele will nearly certainly break the one-week record for album sales, set by ‘NSYNC in 2000 with 2.4 million for “No Strings Attached”. It is Adele’s third studio album. Adele’s first single “Hello” also managed to rocket to the top on iTunes Chart in nearly 106 countries. It makes him the first male artist to occupy three simultaneous spaces in the singles chart top five since John Lennon in 1981.
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Eminem might have slagged them off, but the turn of the century was the reign of the boy bands and Backstreet Boys’ Black and Blue sold 1.591,000 in its first week – and broke the global sales record selling more than 5 million worldwide.
