Her last album, 2011’s “21”, yielded massive hits “Rolling in the Deep” and “Someone Like You” on the way to selling more than 30 million copies globally. Nevertheless, it now stands as the fourth-biggest selling album in British history, having sold 4.8 million copies.
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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. Still, listeners can see growth and change in Adele from “19” to “25” and three of her singles demonstrate it.
Thomas Mesa from Ticketbis, who compiled the figures, has warned fans to be prepared when tickets go on sale.
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.
In more technical terms, the band’s “No Strings Attached” album sold 2,416,000 copies back in 2000, which was (and remained) the most sales any single album made during its debut week…until now.
Merely crossing the 1 million sales threshold in a single week, something that happened regularly at the end of the 1990s and early in the new millennium, has become an event in itself.
Like pop star Taylor Swift and a handful of others, Adele had made 25 unavailable for streaming on Spotify and other services, in a bid to boost sales of the physical album and downloads. “She was already closing in on their record (Tuesday) night but as of (Wednesday) morning she edged ahead”, a source tells Britain’s The Sun newspaper. “What’s interesting with Adele, she’s mastered this thing of being hip enough for NME and Hot Press, she’ll also do the Sunday supplements and the womens” magazines.
Adele’s new album has already sold 2,433,000 albums just three days after its release, Billboard reported.
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ADELE has announced a 2016 European tour. The hotly-anticipated set of new songs from the Tottenham chanteuse recorded 800,307 units giving her the highest opening week sales in United Kingdom chart history. A number of artists have had especially impressive years in terms of album sales although none of them are likely to have serious play for second place on the year-end list.
