Adele’s new album sold a record 3.38 million

It also dethroned Oasis’ Be Here Now, breaking the United Kingdom record for first week album sales with 737,000 copies sold.

Adele is rolling in album sales with 3.4 million copies sold in a week, of her new album “25” in the US.

Adele’s 25 made music sales history, earned a milestone debut on the Billboard 200 chart, and instantly became the year’s top selling album in the U.S.in just one week.

The previous single-week sales record was held by Justin Timberlake s boy band NSYNC and their “No Strings Attached” album, which sold 2.42 million albums back in 2000.

The juggernaut known as ADELE’s “25” continues to rack up impressive sales figures. 25 is also just the 20th album to sell at least a million copies in a week.

As Noise11 reports, for the first time this year, the Number 1 single and album in the country both belong to the same artist, with Adele’s “Hello” topping the singles chart for a fifth straight week and 25 sitting atop the albums chart.

If you cast your minds back to last Monday, you’ll know that Adele opened the week with 300,000 copies of 25 being sold in its opening 3 days on sale, which was pretty impressive.

Move over Taylor Swift: British phenom Adele is, by far, the biggest thing in popular music. The lowest week in Nielsen history for album sales was the frame ending September 17, when only 3.51 million albums were sold.

In 2012, Adele’s “21” sold more copies in England than Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.

“It came down to the wire, but in the final week of 2014, Swift’s 1989 finishes as the year’s top selling album”.

Adele’s success may be due to a combination of factors: her vocal prowess shows her genuine talent, her songs have a retro mood that gives them a wide appeal, and her album not appearing on streaming services means consumers have fewer places where they can find it. As Adele and her label, XL Recordings, continue to work 25, the sales will hardly subside. This album produced the singles “Rolling in the Deep”, “Someone like You”, “Set Fire to the Rain”, “Rumour Has It” and “Turning Tables”.