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Adele sold 2.3 million copies of 25 in a single weekend
Posted On Nov 25 2015
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Adele’s latest album 25 sold 2.3 million copies in its first three days since being released on Friday, according to Nielsen Music.
In the United Kingdom, meanwhile, ’25” sold more than 300k copies in its first day, behind only Oasis’ “Be Here Now’ in first-day album sales in United Kingdom chart history.
Taylor Swift also will say good bye because before 25’s release, 1989 was still the best-selling album of 2015.
Adele’s 25 sold a scarcely believable 1.9m copies in its first two days on sale in the USA, according to early data from reliable local retail monitor BuzzAngle – and therefore obviously shifted more than 2m copies across the world in the same timeframe.
Adele did not allow her new album to be in streaming sites.
“There’s some smart analysis of What It All Means from Kobalt Label Services” David Emery, who worked on Adele’s last album “21” when he was at Beggars Group.
In addition, sources were forecasting its CD configuration to sell 1.5 million in its first week, while its digital edition could move another 1 million (meaning, its first week might be at least 2.5 million in total). By comparison, Adele’s last album, 21, sold 352,000 in its first week.
Worldwide singing and songwriting sensation Adele has just released her newest album, “25”, and it’s already on track to shatter records.
In an era of streaming music and video like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, this is a considerably huge achievement if Adele can make it happen when the final numbers are released. “I Miss You” and “Water Under The Bridge” trap the most pain on the album with such clarity.
They included 60 Minutes Australia, BBC’s Adele – Live in London which was hosted by Graham Norton and she also preformed on Saturday Night Live in the US. In contrast to the four albums that have topped one million in sales this year, there were 88 such discs in 2000, the year ‘N Sync had its big opening, Nielsen said (Sales records date to 1991, when then-SoundScan started keeping track of first-week sales).
