There was little doubt she’d storm to Number 1, but today the Official Charts Company can confirm that Adele’s 25 is the biggest Number 1 album ever.
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After processing the first sales reports through November 25, Nielsen Music reports the set has sold just over 3 million copies in the US 25 was released on November 20 through XL/Columbia Records. “Rumor Has It” that the album is expected to reach about 2.9 million copies sold, by the end of its debut week. Adele’s carrier single, “Hello”, has also gone platinum and became the U.K.’s fastest-selling song of the year.
The LP shifted more than 800,000 copies in its first week on sale, eclipsing the previous title holder – Oasis’s Be Here Now, which sold 696,000 units in one week of August 1997.
Adele’s comeback single Hello rocketed straight to number one when it was first aired last month.
Adele further made the decision of not releasing her album to streaming outlets such as Apple Music, Tidel and Spotify.
Adele’s “25” is the follow up after her hit album “21”, which was released in 2011 and proved to be a blockbuster. It could – and it did, two days ago.
Withholding her album from streaming music sites obviously hasn’t hurt her image, popularity or sales too much in the same way some of those things were damaging for Taylor Swift, when she chose to deny music streaming sites access to 1989.
The Hello hitmaker announced her first tour in four years via Instagram on Thursday night (local time).
Adele – 25 is on United Kingdom independent label XL Recordings, part of the Beggars Group, and proudly represented and distributed in New Zealand by NZ owned independent companies The Label and Rhythmethod. Forecasters said that “25” could finish the week with three million sales.
“Well done Adele”, JC Chasez chimed in. It came out in October 2014 and has since sold over 5.3 million copies.
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Meanwhile, many Adele fans are flocking to music stores to buy the British singer’s latest album.
