Over the course of a single week, the song has been downloaded 1.1m times, according to Billboard. Though women have produced 20% of the songs to hit number one so far this year, they’ve only claimed the top spot for 6% of the weeks counted.
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It is also, unsurprisingly, the No. 1 track on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart right now. Elton John’s “Candle In The Wind 1997” sold 3.4 million copies in its first week in September 1997. The old record was held by “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth, which sold 464K copies in its peak week in April. Justin Bieber’s “Sorry”, the other, starts at #2. It enters Radio Songs at No. 37 with 34 million in all-format audience (up 99 percent in its first full week of airplay).
Adele continues to break records with “Hello”, the debut single from her upcoming album 25. Talk about a great return for Adele, are you loving her new song? More record-setting numbers could be on the way, too. After first hitting the internet just over a week ago, it’s been viewed close to 200m times on Vevo. “It’s awesome what power, passion and emotion Adele can convey in a single note”, Russ Borris, WFUV New York music director, told Billboard the same day. “She is one of the very few artists that make you feel what she feels in a four-minute song”.
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“Hello” is the second single by Adele to reach No. 1 on the United States’ leading pop chart. The Hot 100 and other charts will also appear in the next issue of Billboard magazine, on sale Friday (Nov. 6).
