Adele’s 25 breaks week one sales record

Adele informed Spotify and Apple Music last Thursday – the day before the album’s actual release – that it would not be available on their on-demand services.

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. In fact, it might have made it there because there hasn’t been a single stream on Spotify: Adele and her label made the decision not to stream 25 anywhere online, encouraging people to actually buy the album or its songs outright.

By contrast, in 2000, that same ‘N Sync album, “No Strings Attached”, sold 9.9 million copies and Eminem’s “Slim” was behind that with 7.92 million.

Adele has broken the record for biggest week one sales in the United Kingdom with third album 25.

Adele has managed to shift 737,000 copies since Friday, which means she has overtaken Oasis’ Be Here Now record of 696,000 in 1997 by a considerable amount. An album from past these years doesn’t appear until Taylor Swift’s 2012 work “Red”.

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Streaming services have helped make over the album-sales landscape in 2015.

Another song inspired by the little man in Adele’s life-fans will even notice how her son’s voice was sampled in it. Adele is to be appreciated in the strong marketing strategy when she kept the albums from streaming services. With Saturday Night Live parodies, thousands of YouTube covers and Lionel Richie mashups, it quickly worked its way to the top of the charts in 28 countries, making it the first single ever to sell one million downloads in a release week in the US, according to Billboard Magazine.

She recently told NPR she takes it as a “huge compliment” that fans are so moved by her tunes.

“I’m certainly not one for, like, spicing things up, I’m just doing what I’ve always done”, she said on USA breakfast show Today.