It has also sold more downloads than any other album in British history – 252,423.
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“I miss the air, I miss my friends / I miss my mother / I miss it when life was a party to be thrown / But that was a million years ago”.
Winning six Grammy Awards in 2012 including Album of the Year, equalling the record for most Grammy Awards won by a female artist in one night. After that feat seemed achievable, prognosticators started to aim much higher: Might it hit 2 million and perhaps surpass *NSYNC’s thought-to-be-unbreakable record of 2.42 million (set when its No Strings Attached debuted in the week ending March 26, 2000)? One Direction, whose net worth is estimated as a group, is nothing compared to Adele’s as the boy band’s assets are only a half of Adele’s. The artist’s former wish to secure a sponsorship from Apple for her next tour could be an easy way to negotiate a deal to exclusively debut 25 on Apple Music at some point. 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.
Adele’s “25” is now the talk of the town, and after breaking records within the first week of its release, the British songwriter’s newest album has added yet another feather in its cap. No album released this year has been all that close to Swift’s 1989. It’s a strategy pointedly aimed at boosting sales numbers to reach for NSYNC’s record, and 25 is uniquely positioned to do so.
On “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”, the second track of the album, the melodies contrast deeply to the usual Adele ballad as a attractive ensemble of voices join in for the upbeat chorus.
“All I Ask” was co-written by another star, Bruno Mars.
It’s Adele’s world and we all just live in it.
“You’re gonna wish you never had met me”, she sings in the background of “Deep”, turning her heartbreak into one of the iconic songs of the decade behind a foot-stomping, neo-soul groove.
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On “River Lea”, Adele sees the Greater London waterway as a metaphor for childhood insecurities, yet she struggles to break free.
