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Adele has bestselling album of 2015 with over 3 million copies sold
Posted On Dec 02 2015
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The only album that has come close to competing with Adele’s new album is Justin Bieber’s “Purpose”.
Sales of Adele’s 25 made up 41% of all record sales in the US this past week, which included the Thanksgiving holiday.
Britons bought twice as many physical copies of the album as digital, with 25 shifting 548,000 physical units and 252,423 digital copies last week. In fact, in what might be a telling fact about the clout of major artists, the two biggest-selling albums of the past two years – Adele’s 25 and Taylor Swift’s 1989 – are both absent from services that offer free, ad-based, streaming. And that was when albums actually sold. Swift s album was released in October 2014.
Adele’s coup comes in a climate much less hospitable to blockbusters: at the turn of the millennium, retailers were selling about 700 million CDs a year, while last year just 247 million albums were sold in CDs and downloads combined, according to Nielsen.
The next album to debut in the top 10 is Jadakiss’ first studio installment in more than six years, “Top 5 Dead or Alive”, which opens at No. 4 with 66,000 units. The singer’s fifth album was released early Friday morning exclusively on iTunes. “It sold 828,773 internationally”, said the report. The powerhouse album shifted an unprecedented 3.48 million copies in its first tracking week, which is enough to secure the number one spot many, many times over. The current album follows the Grammy winning chart-topper 21.
People in the music industry are certainly excited, but the marketing machine that is Adele might not work for all artists. Up next was Adele again with 21, her smash album from 2011. NME has the news.
Starting with two nights at Belfast’s SSE Arena on February 29 and March 1, Adele will then go on to play in Dublin, Manchester, London, Birmingham and Glasgow before heading to Europe for appearances across the continent. Are you going to see Adele in concert? Let us know by sharing your opinions in the comments section below.
