Adele smashes single-week US album sales record in four days

The much-anticipated album 25 was not available for streaming on any other digital music services, including Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.

Nielsen Music, the authority on tracking music sales in the United States, has declared Adele’s “25” the single-week top-selling album in the USA just days after its release on November 20.

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”. Adele joins a small list of artists including Taylor Swift, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Garth Brooks, Eminem, *NSYNC, and the Backstreet Boys with this feat. With Saturday Night Live parodies, thousands of YouTube covers and Lionel Richie mashups, it quickly worked its way to the top of the charts in 28 countries, making it the first single ever to sell one million downloads in a release week in the us, according to Billboard Magazine.

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Earlier today, it was confirmed that “25” has broken the record for the UK’s fastest selling album of all time.

“25”, Adele’s latest album has been released and it is breaking records after records.

Be Here Now, Oasis’s third album, from back in 1997 is the one to beat. The artist seems determined to hold her side of the bargain, now that her new album has already managed to set a new record with 25.

Her last tour in 2011 was cut short when she needed surgery on her vocal cords.

The 27 year old, who was educated at the Brit School in south London, the same stage school as Amy Winehouse and Leona Lewis, sold more than 30m copies of her last album, “21” which won multiple Grammys including Album of the Year.

The same news portal added that Spotify also issued a statement wishing Adele would allow her fans an opportunity to listen to her latest collections via Spotify.