Adele’s third album 25 becomes fastest-seller in British history

Adele has also broken the sales record in Canada according to People.

The “Hello” singer has also become the first artist to sell more than 100,000 digital albums in the first week of release.

The only thing that can outmatch Adele’s voice is her sales.

Fans applauded the tour, Adele’s first in four years, on Twitter while media sites noted that the 27-year-old singer appeared to have overcome her self-professed fear of performing before large crowds. Five complete songs-including TV and live versions of new songs, are available YouTube, including Hello, When We Were Young, Water Under the Bridge, Million Years Ago and You’ll Never See Me Again -just not the complete version of the album.

Be Here Now clocked up its 696,000 week one sales in just three days back in 1997, but as it was released on a Thursday – when the chart was announced on a Sunday – technically this counts as its opening “chart week”.

Adele has set a new sales record for number of units sold in a single week with her new “25” album.

Adele’s Hello takes the third spot, followed by Bieber’s What Do You Mean? and Fleur East’s Sax.

Nielsen Music has been tracking single-week album sales since 1991, and the title-holder for most record sales in a week was previously held by pop band *NSYNC, with their March 2000 release of “No Strings Attached”, which sold 2,416,000 during its first week.

Mr Talbot said: “This album has outsold 21 by more than three times, in its first week”. Nevertheless, it now stands as the fourth-biggest selling album in British history, having sold 4.8 million copies. When looked at over the longer term, it has already shifted more copies than the collective total of the last nineteen number one British albums.

The news seemed to upset the streaming services such as Spotify, Apple Music, and Deezer as well as its users.

“25” is the first full-length work in four years by Adele, whose last album “21” was the top-seller in the United States for two straight years and by far the biggest release this century in her native Britain.