Adele album on track for record sales

Topping off at 900,000 sales after just one day of releasing her newest album, “25,” on Friday, Adele is breaking mainstream music records by refusing the streaming of her album on sites like Spotify, Apple Music or Tidal for an entire week.

When Adele’s 21 was released in January 2011, it sold 208,000 copies in its first week and passed the 500,000 sales milestone by its fourth week on sale.

What all of this means: it is now starting to look like a foregone conclusion that 25 will shatter the official all-time first week record for album sales in America.

“25” is expected to outpace the competition for the last 15 years and could set a precedent for Nielsen-era chart records, which so far hasn’t been done since NYSNC sold 2.42 million copies of “No Strings Attached” back in 2000. As a result, they chose to ship 3.6 million copies to retail stores in the U.S. “Billboard has now predicted in that 25 ought to simply set the record for the highest-first week sales in music HISTORY by shifting ‘no less than” 2.5 million copies. That’s somewhere around 2.5 million units at a very fat, very old-school margin relative to digital. Can it hit 3 million? This album, however, shows a whole new Adele when compared to “21”.

If “25” is going to sale as stated, it will become the 20th album that reaches a million sale copies in a single week in the Nielsen era.

After taking a four year break between albums and with such an outstanding achievement within her sights, this is a ideal time to take a moment to get to know Adele, the woman behind the album, and what fuels her. Fortunately for her fans, Adele has been happy to open up about the inspiration behind her 25 album, spilling details about one song in particular.

Every person who has listened to her album, 25, has gone through a few of the emotional stages listed below. Her second album, 21, was her first time leading the list and Adele ended up spending 24 wonderful weeks (nonconsecutive) at number 1 then and was the first female to have an album accomplish such a goal.

While ’21′ stands as the tenth-largest selling album of all time, it sounds like ’25′ could storm past that mark.