Album Sales :Adele sets new record

Adele, whose latest album “25” has smashed sales records in its first week of release, announced on Thursday she would begin a 15-week concert tour of Britain, Ireland and continental Europe in February.

In an age when musicians are struggling to sell albums, 25 managed to sell more than 2.4 million copies in just over three days, smashing the single-week USA album sales record, previously held by NSYNC.

Adele’s 25 has now officially sold just over 3 million copies in the USA, according to Nielsen Music.

Adele has broken the record for biggest week one sales in the United Kingdom with third album 25. Adele, together with her advisers, implemented pragmatism by releasing her first single album for streaming to attract interest to the album.

In the coming days and weeks there will certainly be a lot of speculation around what would have happened if she had released 25 on music streaming services right out the gate.

Further, of that figure, 1.45 million are digital albums – by far a record haul for a digital set. I can never live up to that again and that’s fine.

So Pandora was able to secure Adele’s album even without her permission because of some technicalities. It makes him the first male artist to occupy three simultaneous spaces in the singles chart top five since John Lennon in 1981. It is shifting between fifty and sixty thousand copies a day, and if it keeps this momentum up, which I think it will, it’s likely to sell between 1.5 million and two million copies by the end of the year. The boy band’s No Strings Attached sold 2.416 million albums in its first week whereas she has sold 2.433 million.

Adele’s incredible success must be inspiring to Jack Garratt, who had his own good news today. The artist’s former choice to withhold free streaming for her latest tracks has helped her trigger more sales for the hard copy of her new album.

So what did Adele do exactly previous year instead of working herself off to build the empire she has now? Justin Bieber continued his record-breaking streak, appearing at No 1 with Sorry and No 2 with Love Yourself.