Adele’s 25 makes USA chart history with first week sales

Adele’s Grammy-winning 2011 album, “21”, also saw a boost, rising to ninth place on the Billboard 200 from 25th the week before. She had stayed out of public appearances and even social media. Making up for everything I ever did and never did. Adele’s voice is like a white, less soulful or interesting version of Aretha’s, or a straighter and less audacious Barbra Streisand – she’s safer, blander, broader in sound and appeal, and all of those qualities mix perfectly with her ginormous sound on 25.

It makes Adele the first person to notch two albums in the top ten since Prince’s simultaneous releases of Art Official Age and Plectrumelectrum in October of previous year.

It is also the first album in Nielsen history to sell more than three million copies in a week.

“[Streaming] probably is the future, but, eh”, she said. But with “25”, there is a different kind of appreciation for the music that she puts forth. Everywhere you look, people are singing it, dancing to it, or parodying it. Many songs that take off this swiftly quickly die down because they aren’t that great; they are a short-lived phenomenon. It was just a slow drift that started when I upgraded to a pro Spotify account a few years ago.

“That means that Sony and Adele have the flexibility to be essentially market makers”, said music industry consultant Eric Blackerby.

It’s nearly become a joke these days that if someone’s having a hard time, going through a break-up and trying to get over someone, you advise them to open a bottle of wine and listen to Adele… and this album lives up to that theme.

Meanwhile, the BBC reported that fans buying tickets for Adele’s tour were shown the address and credit card details of customers other than themselves. She isn’t overpowered by the piano or drums on most her tracks.

Since “25” album’s first single, “Hello”, was released to the big streamers, together with Adele’s famous flip phone-featuring video on YouTube, Web streams are included along with digital sales of the single and considered as the album sales, although technically, they should not.

“Hello” is not the only song on the album that boasts Adele’s impeccable talent.

“I make time for him like I always have”.