Singing superstar Adele is heading to the SSE Hydro for her first tour in five years.
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Oasis previously held the record with their 1997 album Be Here Now.
Since each album title corresponds to the age at which its songs were written, “19”, “21” and “25” are the beginnings of what could be an unconscious project on Adele’s part to chronicle the different peaks, valleys, milestones and challenges of one woman’s life as she ages.
The first milestone she hit was beating Britney Spears’ record setting 1.3 million albums sold in the first week for a female artist. “Be Here Now” sold 696,000 copies in its first week of release.
Adele made news last week when the singer and her record labels Columbia and XL made the strategic decision to restrict the album from being streamed on any streaming service including Apple Music and Spotify. It’s a stark, slow building barn burner where Adele turns the table on her usual heartbreak topic, singing as if to say sorry for her own misgivings rather than opening her heart about how she was treated.
Yet however much Adele wants in 25 to return to the world of memories, she knows she can not.
It comes as her album 25, which features the number one single Hello, took over Oasis’ 18-year sales record and claimed a new chart victory. It is shifting between fifty and sixty thousand copies a day, and if it keeps this momentum up, which I think it will, it’s likely to sell between 1.5 million and two million copies by the end of the year.
The UK vocal talent’s album sales are now sitting at 2,433,000 copies, the highest total since Nielsen began tracking album sales in 1991.
Within just a week of its release, 25 has already broken multiple records, both overseas and here on home soil.
Adele’s 25 creating history with over 800,000 copies sold in first week of its release.
She was signed at 16, just three days after finishing school, all because one of her friends posted one of her performances on MySpace.
“I can’t go back”, she sings, “but the reeds are growing out of my fingertips”.
Having her second album, “21” certified 16 times platinum in the UK.
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Adele is as lovely and deep as the soulful ballads which made her famous.
