However, to compare the two albums would be unfair, as sales figures were judged using different metrics.
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Britons bought 548,000 physical copies and 252,423 digital copies of 25. Five complete songs-including TV and live versions of new songs, are available YouTube, including Hello, When We Were Young, Water Under the Bridge, Million Years Ago and You’ll Never See Me Again -just not the complete version of the album.
Total sales for the album, released on Friday, have surpassed 2.43 million copies, smashing a 15-year-old record set by boy band NSync s 2000 album “No Strings Attached”, Nielsen said.
The Official Charts Company confirmed today that Adele has scored the biggest UK No. 1 album ever.
As album sales have dropped drastically due to the rise in online streaming, it’s increasingly rare for an artist to top 1 million copies sold in the first week.
Even more breath-taking is the insane chart fact that 25 has sold more than the ENTIRE next 86 albums on teh charts, combined.
In other Adele news sure to send fans into a frenzy, she confirmed on Thursday that she will indeed tour in 2016 and announced a set of sporadic dates in the United Kingdom and Europe between the end of February and June.
The promotional window for Adele’s new record still has a month of the buoyant pre-Christmas sale period to run, as well as next year’s Mother’s Day and the Brit Awards.
The first milestone she hit was beating Britney Spears’ record setting 1.3 million albums sold in the first week for a female artist.
Adele kept 25 off streaming sites because she did the same for her previous albums, but she is open to making it available in the future.
The first sales reports from Adele’s 25 landed with a ceremonious wallop, for the pop singer with the mightiest voice absolutely killed the sales charts. The previous record was held by Ed Sheeran’s x, which has 95,709 sales in summer 2014.
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That being said, over 5 million Adele fans worldwide are disappointed.
