NSYNC have congratulated Adele on breaking their album sales record

“Hello”, the first song on 25, already broke the record for the biggest United States debut for a single since the advent of iTunes.

In the age of music piracy and streaming, Adele has done what was once thought to be the impossible, she’s sold more than 3 million copies of 25 in the first week of USA sales, shattering records, and that sales number could still grow yet.

The album shifted more copies than the next 86 albums in the chart combined, and has become the first album to sell more than 100,000 downloads in a week.

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”. 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. According to Nielsen Music reports, 25’s debut has managed to beat the record set by NSYNC in 2000 following its release of “No Strings Attached”. Of that, 1.45 million are digital albums. Her “1989” sold 1.3 million its first week on sale past year, the fastest seller in some time, and Bakula said Adele’s disc is likely to finish the week with more than twice that number sold.

Adele’s sales are reportedly fairly evenly split between CD sales and digital album sales. Adele’s 25 has sold 800,307. That’s why although Adele is not releasing “25” on Spotify, Apple Music and others, the album’s first single “Hello” was in fact featured on all of the largest streaming services.

Adele is as handsome and deep as the soulful ballads which made her famous.

Bosses had originally planned to keep royalties from any streams during the service’s three-month free trial, but they reversed their policy and agreed to pay during that period after reading Taylor’s letter. As her hot album already racked numerous recognitions even before it has dropped for sales, Adele is also expected to take home umpteenth amounts of cash for her new music. Any listener is promptly transported to an old European city with flowers blooming and the heat of warm coffee rising in the crisp air as soon as the chorus swoons, “I wish I could live a little more / Look up to the sky, not just the floor”.