New album ’25’ is now on Pandora
The U.S. online radio service said all songs from Adele’s album, which broke records in first-week sales, are now available on its radio service, sending Pandora shares up on Wednesday.
The numbers also come one year after Taylor Swift’s “1989” – which some music industry observers argued could be the last platinum album ever.
Adele’s latest record, “25” is undoubtedly the most anticipated record this year, as sales continue to climb just mere days after the album was released on November 20.
In fact, 252,423 of the album’s 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD.
Adele’s new album has already sold 2,433,000 albums just three days after its release, Billboard reported.
Fans have been eagerly awaiting the announcement, as this will be the singer’s first tour in four years. I will say while this was not my favorite Adele album, “25” does contain my favorite Adele song, “River Lea”.
The full video on her Facebook page, made up of blunders and swearing, shows the singer standing in front of a map, pointing to countries such as the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and France with a wand, joking: “Oh my God, it’s hard work being Harry Potter”. “Rumor Has It” that the album is expected to reach about 2.9 million copies sold, by the end of its debut week.
The “25” album has already surpassed the “single-week album sales record” previously held by NSYNC’s “No Strings Attached” with 2.416 record sales in March 26, 2000.
Before Adele’s startling debut, “Purpose” had the highest first-week sales for an album in 2015.
Immediately, I fell in love with “Million Years Ago“, a dreamy harmony akin to the background music one would hear in a Parisian cafe in the spring. While 21 was a heartbreaking ode to a painful breakup, 25 comes after a career-threatening vocal cord surgery and the birth of her son with partner Simon Konecki.
Adele has said before that she isn’t that fond of touring because it’s lonely.
Justin Bieber completed a rare singles chart double, with Sorry and Love Yourself holding the top two places.
Adele invariably had her pick of the world’s songwriters for such an eagerly awaited album.