Adele’s first LIVE performance of ‘Hello’

Official Charts Company data shows that “Hello” has already sold in excess of 165,000 combined sales and streams since last week and has been downloaded 156,000 times.

Hello is set to take the crown and would be the star’s second Number 1 single on the Official Singles Chart, after Someone Like You, which was at the top for five weeks in 2011.

Adele has been busy promoting new single Hello, which has already smashed the Vevo record to become the video with the most views in a 24-hour period.

Directed the video by Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan, sees Adele raking the coals of a relationship that is attenuated.

Reviews for the single have been overwhelmingly positive.

The track that teases Adele’s forthcoming third album, 25, is now sitting at the top of the iTunes chart in 102 different countries – bare in mind that there are only 196 counties in the world, that’s a clear majority which makes Adele a bona fide global superstar.

In the United Kingdom, Hello is predicted to possess the largest opening week of the entire year, defeating Ellie Goulding’s Love Me Do, which reached flows and 173,000 united sales in February.

Such figures emphasise the need for Adele’s livelihood within an ailing music business.

If so, it could help reverse figures from the first half of this year, which showed that sales of both CDs and digital albums had fallen in the UK.

But, last Friday, talking, Adele told that she had not been feeling the weight of expectancy.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the 46-year-old, who also co-wrote the hit, said: ‘I’m not going to lie – it’s not easy to hold that information in for that long’. She said: “No matter what this album does, my next record’s going to be following 21”. “I can’t really include it in any expectations of anything I ever do again”.