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Adele’s 25 is the biggest selling album in the UK – EVER
Posted On Nov 28 2015
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It comes as her album 25, which features the number one single Hello, took over Oasis’ 18-year sales record and claimed a new chart victory.
The company’s chief executive, Martin Talbot, said: “No album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach No 1 in the history of British music”.
Nielsen Music said Monday that Adele will nearly certainly break the one-week record for album sales, set by ‘NSYNC in 2000 with 2.4 million for “No Strings Attached”.
But three days after the British singer released new album “25” on Friday, it had already clocked over 2.433 million sales in downloads and physical copies in the US.
In fact, 252,423 of the album’s 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD.
“25” is Adele’s third studio album, which followed other numerical named albums “19” and “21”. The initial album sale numbers for Adele’s “25” has already surpassed the previous highest single week album sale that was recorded by Nielsen Music since it first started tracking album movements in 1991.
Adele – 25 is on United Kingdom independent label XL Recordings, part of the Beggars Group, and proudly represented and distributed in New Zealand by NZ owned independent companies The Label and Rhythmethod.
The phenomenally popular Millennium became one of the best-selling records of all time, staying at the No 1 spot on the Billboard charts for 10 consecutive weeks and selling 1,133,505 in the first week – and 28 million copies worldwide. “Be Here Now” sold 696,000 copies in its first week of release.
Adele has also just announced a world arena tour – even though she could clearly fill stadiums – which include four nights at the O2 Arena in London in March 2016.
25 isn’t on Pandora because Adele specifically wanted it there.
Adele’s series of shows is said to have increased the sales of her CD and digital albums. A number of artists have had especially impressive years in terms of album sales although none of them are likely to have serious play for second place on the year-end list.
