Adele’s album set to break records after first day sales

When Adele’s 21 was released in January 2011, it sold 208,000 copies in its first week and passed the 500,000 sales milestone by its fourth week on sale.

“25” is the first full-length work in four years by Adele, whose last album “21” was the top-seller in the United States for two straight years and by far the biggest release this century in her native Britain. “As music consumption has changed over the years, to be able to sell over 2 million albums in just a couple of days is unprecedented”.

Adele’s new record got a boost this weekend as she performed on “Saturday Night Live” and in a BBC TV special.

Sixty-two percent of these U.S. sales (around 1.18m) were digital downloads, says BuzzAngle – after Adele and her Stateside label Columbia (Sony) notoriously decided not to put the album on streaming services such as Spotify.

When Adele released her new album, “25,” on Friday, it was sure to be an instant hit.

Epic sales… Adele’s 25 has instantly broken chart records worldwide and will debut at No. 1 this week.

“Billboard has now predicted in that 25 ought to simply set the record for the highest-first week sales in music HISTORY by shifting ‘no less than” 2.5 million copies.

The release of the album has rekindled debate in the music industry over the role of streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. It will be Adele’s second number one.

However, a few well-respected music sites have thrown their support behind the Londoner, like the 405 who have stated that the album is a “saviour record for a quarter life crisis, a sing-a-long for one of life’s most hard stages”. Streaming music fans were disappointed to find out that Adele’s 25 would not be available on streaming music services just before it was set to be released.

Swift’s “1989” sold nearly 1.3 million copies during its first week in October 2014.

After all, Adele had won the best new artist Grammy in 2009, and such a blessing has proved to be more of a curse for other artists.