Her third album, 25, smashed past 3m sales in its first week in the U.S. on Wednesday (November 25), destroying previous records.
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After a four year break between album releases, the Grammy Award-winning 21 and the now already-legendary 25, Adele fans can rejoice over the new album. Earlier this month, the lead single from the album, “Hello”, became the first single to sell more than one million downloads in a single week in the US. It is shifting between fifty and sixty thousand copies a day, and if it keeps this momentum up, which I think it will, it’s likely to sell between 1.5 million and two million copies by the end of the year.
The Guardian reports that Adele’s new album, “25” has broken records for its first-week sales. This is beautifully displayed in the cracking wails of “Sweetest Devotion” and “I Miss You”, and it is the album’s greatest strength – Adele’s voice can still surprise us after the technical perfection of past hits. It’s on Pandora because Adele and her label don’t have a say.
In a sign of confidence in 25, the album is not available on streaming sites such as Spotify, making Adele one of the rare artists along with Taylor Swift to resist the fast-growing sector of on-demand online music. That reached number one with sales of 696,000 in 1997. It is possible that another single and the holiday season will propel it past the 2 million sales mark in 2015. 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.
JC Chasez simply posted on Twitter: ‘Well done Adele’.
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Oasis lead singer Noel Gallagher can’t be too happy about the beating, especially since he recently remarked that “nobody cares” what Adele is up to, blasting her along with several other modern pop stars. While Adele’s team may have urged her to sign up with Apple Music or Spotify, it seems that the success of 25’s hard copies may not need these services going forward. “And I’m sorry it took so long but, you know, life happened”, Adele said about the album’s lyrical content according to Wikipedia.
