His bandmate Lance Bass added, “We officially say Bye Bye Bye as @Adele says Hello to the World Record of Most Albums Sold In a Single Week”.
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ADELE DESCRIBED 21 as a “break-up album”, but 25 as a “make-up album…making up with myself”, but the fall-out from break-up still haunts many of these, often melancholy, songs of regret for what has happened, what has gone, and what can never return.
“The statistics surrounding the album are staggering, album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history of British music.”, said Martin Talbot – the official charts company chief executive after the album’s 100,000 downloads in a week.
Adele has stormed to the top of the United Kingdom album charts with the biggest single-week sales ever. 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).
Apple also clarified to ET that Adele’s whole album won’t be released in Apple Music, but “25” will be available for purchase on iTunes.
Now 25 has done the seemingly impossible: It has sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S.in less than a week – and its first tracking week isn’t even over yet. That album has sold more than 30 million copies since its release in 2011, with more than one million in Australia alone.
For the record, Bieber’s new “Purpose” album sold 648,711 copies during its first week, surpassing the 535,000 figure posted in February by Drake’s “If You’re Reading This” album that had been the highest first-week figure of 2015 to date.
Now, the singer has stated that she is likely to offer the album on streaming services at some point in the future.
And Fatone revealed he was among the 2.4 million fans in America who bought 25 upon its release on Friday (20Nov15). The album is not set to appear on streaming sites like Spotify at present.
Adele, mother of one, also beat Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” for most YouTube views as her smash hit Hello has garnered over 490 million views thus far.
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The record is the Irish singer’s first studio album in seven years and matches the peak of her 1997 Best Of collection.
