Adele makes United Kingdom chart history

Oasis’s Be Here Now previously held the record for biggest first-week sales, after shifting 696,000 copies in 1997.

Adele’s latest album “25” is hitting the charts as the lucky number one in such a short span of time. Nevertheless, it now stands as the fourth-biggest selling album in British history, having sold 4.8 million copies. However, according to the Billboard magazine’s estimation for its first week sales, 25 was initially expected to break more than one million sales in North America.

Her new album, 25, has managed to top the best releases of 2015. The album is the first position on apple’s iTunes chart in 110 countries and has had a minimum of 900,000 downloads so far.

In fact, 252,423 of the album’s 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD.

On Adele’s third album 25, which came out last Friday, the singer has little interest in gloating about fame or experimenting in style, instead returning to the emotional depths that have so resonated with her vast fan base.

Ed Sheeran held the previous record for weekly digital album sales, with 95,709. Forecasters said that “25” could finish the week with three million sales.

British pop singer Adele’s refusal to allow her new record to be released or streamed online has sparked confusion to the worldwide music industry.

Adele has broken the record for the highest first week sales figure for her album 25 after shifting more than 800,000 copies. The previous record holder being Susan Boyle’s 2009 debut “I Dreamed A Dream” that sold 17,435.

25 was released on November 20 through XL/Columbia Records. Her timing makes flawless sense because people love Adele and people love the holidays.

Despite the technicalities, Pandora is happy to announce that since putting up Adele’s album on their site, their listeners have increased in number and majority have been listening to Adele’s first single from the album titled “Hello”.

Adele’s new album, already a best-seller for 2015, won’t play on Spotify or Apple Music – but you can hear it on Pandora, much to the delight of Pandora’s investors.