Released by Columbia Records, 25 has officially broken the single-week US album sales record.
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Adele just broke the record for selling 3.38 million copies of her latest album in only one week. (It beats the previous record, held by *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, when it debuted with 2.42 million sold in the week ending March 26, 2000.) 25 is also the only album to sell more than 3 million copies in a week. However, it should also be noted that her two previously released records – 21 and 19 – both re-entered the top 20 this week, despite being readily available across popular streaming services Spotify and Apple Music.
Similarly, 25 smashed US chart records as well, becoming the first album ever to hit over 3 million sales in a single week. It has also sold nearly three million in the USA since its release on Friday. That would make two times she has topped the lists two years in a row. “25” went straight to Number One on November 27 with sales of 800,000 Three days later and the Official Chart Company have today (November 30) confirmed that the album is now the biggest-selling album of 2015. She’s a talented musician who not only sings, but is a songwriter, plays the piano, keyboard, guitar, bass and percussion. As Billboard noted at the end of 2014, Taylor Swift had the year’s top selling album.
Billboard reported that her LP sold over 3.38 million copies in its first week.
Lady Gaga sold more than 1.1 million copies of her album Born This Way in May, 2011.
Britons bought twice as many physical copies of the album as digital, with 25 shifting 548,000 physical units and 252,423 digital copies last week. Billboard reports that 25 now claims that title, and if the album can maintain its momentum for just one more month, it will keep it. Slay Adele, slay. Chris Stapleton’s big return to the charts Traveller slipped down one spot to No. 7 and Fetty Wap’s self-titled album stuck around at No. 10.
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The next album to debut in the top 10 is Jadakiss’ first studio installment in more than six years, “Top 5 Dead or Alive”, which opens at No. 4 with 66,000 units.
