Adele’s 25 makes United Kingdom chart history with 800000 album sales

Adele has sold 2.6 million albums in the first five days of its release. Pandora is just a radio station, so it’s likely seen a bit more as a promotional tool than as something that will cannibalize album sales: You won’t be able to play 25 straight through on Pandora. That makes it by far the fastest-selling album in a decade and a half, and puts it on pace to surpass the longtime record holder, boy band ‘N Sync’s album “No Strings Attached”, which sold 2.4 million in 2000 during its first week of release.

After a four year break between album releases, the Grammy Award-winning 21 and the now already-legendary 25, Adele fans can rejoice over the new album.

Prior to 1991, there was no authoritative music sales tracking service in the U.S, thus it was mostly unknown how many copies of an album or song/single were sold in a single week.

Completing this week’s Top 5 are One Direction with their former Number 1 album, Made In The A.M.

British singer Adele’s “25” notched up the most sales in its opening week of any United Kingdom album, beating a record set in 1997 by Oasis, the Official Charts Company said on Friday.

He added: “No album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history of British music”. Labels don’t have a say in this type of licensing; so Adele’s new album, like Taylor Swift’s 1989 a year ago, still ends up streaming on Pandora. As expected, Adele delivered yet another remarkable performance that blew the audience away as she sang her new hit “When We Were Young”.

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”.

Prior to the release of Adele’s latest album, online streaming sites such as Spotify and Apple Music have been trying to get her to release her album on their sites.

NSYNC have congratulated Adele on breaking their album sales record.

Adele’s third album has also “has done the seemingly impossible”, according to Billboard magazine, and sold more than three million in one week in the US.