After processing the first sales reports from Monday, Nov. 23, that sum beats the single-week record for an album set by NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, which tallied 2,416,000 sales for the week ending on March 26, 2000.
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The album is the first by the singer since releasing “21” in 2011, which sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
The Official Charts Company confirmed the numbers and notes that “Be Here Now” was released on a Thursday so only had three days of sales registering towards its first chart week.
One Direction came closest when their LP Made in the AM sold 93,000 last month – including more than 7,000 from streaming data, which Adele does not have because 25 is not available on streaming services.
If you have a television or even very occasional access to the internet, you are probably aware that Adele released a new album on November 20. That’s 41,000 more than the previous record-holder, Oasis’ Be Here Now, sold in its first week. Part of 25’s massive sales could be attributed to the fact that the album is not available to stream in full on any streaming services.
The biggest hit from her 2008 debut album was “Chasing Pavements”, giving listeners a curious, teenage Adele aiming to make sense of pursuing her romantic ideals and navigating potential partners.
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.
But just because “25” is on Pandora it doesn’t mean that Adele chose them over the others.
His bandmate Lance Bass added, “We officially say Bye Bye Bye as @Adele says Hello to the World Record of Most Albums Sold In a Single Week”.
So what did Adele do exactly a year ago instead of working herself off to build the empire she has now?
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To put it striaght, “25” is huge in all sense, breaking records and impressing not just fans, but even Billboard itself that sets the pedestal for music artists.
