“What the future holds for 25 will unfold over the coming weeks and months, of course – but we can all be absolutely sure that more records will be toppled as Adele fever grips the nation in the run-up to Christmas”.
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Her new release, 25, has sold more than 800,000 copies in its first week, shifting more copies than the next 86 albums combined.
The album beat the previous record-holder the Oasis album, Be Here Now which recorded 695,761 in its first week of release in August 2007, although due to a different chart period and its release on a Thursday only three days of sales were officially registered. The latest reports claim that it made about 2.8 million sales in the USA in just five days of its release.
Singer Adele attends the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. It is Adele’s third studio album.
25 – which Adele described as a “make up album” and comes four years after 2011’s 21 – is also the UK’s most downloaded Number One album in history, having sold 252,423 digital copies.
According to Forbes, Taylor Swift’s 1989 was 2015’s best-selling album before 25 arrived, it earned this title previous year.
“N Sync’s record of 2.42 million in one-week sales (for “No Strings Attached) has held since March 2000, and Spears” single-week sales record for a female artist of 1.32 million (for “Oops…I Did it Again”) was achieved in May 2000″.
“We love and respect Adele, as do her 24 million fans on Spotify”, a Spotify spokesman said in response to the news.
Adele just keeps breaking records. Statistics show that the United States sales of CDs have started to deteriorate from 767 million in 2004 to 141 million in 2014. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
Despite the technicalities, Pandora is happy to announce that since putting up Adele’s album on their site, their listeners have increased in number and a lot of them have been listening to Adele’s first single from the album titled “Hello”.
The Official Charts Company has modified the way it collects data over the past decade, to take account of the rise of digital music. “I think the lack of streaming is irrelevant”, Mr Talbot said. When asked about the possibility of streaming, she replied “Yeah, probably”. This strategy was demonstrated to drive up old music buyers to purchase CDs than to stream online.
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Justin Bieber completed a rare singles chart double, with Sorry and Love Yourself holding the top two places.
