Music Industry Continue To Decline With Or Without Adele’s Sales

Adele’s hit album “25” has made headlines for its lack of availability on streaming services like Spotify, Apple Music and others. “I didn’t realise it was her until the second verse as I didn’t think anything like that would ever happen to me and I didn’t believe it for two days afterwards”.

The thing is, with or without Adele’s sales, the conventional music industry is still in trouble. New services like Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer, however, remain deeply disputed because critics say they don’t pay a fair share of their revenue to artists.

The ‘N Sync first-week record has held strong for 15 years, and has always been considered unbreakable because music sales have dropped dramatically in succeeding years as consumers have shifted away from traditional sales to file-sharing and, more recently, to streaming services.

Oasis’s Be Here Now in the year 1997 became number one after it sold 696,000 copies in 1997.

There was little doubt she’d storm to Number 1, but today the Official Charts Company can confirm that Adele’s 25 is the biggest Number 1 album ever. It sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. Adele’s 25 has sold 800,307.

Nielsen Music began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991.

Prior to Adele, the record-holder was Britain’s Got Talent contestant Susan Boyle, with her 2009 debut I Dreamed A Dream, which sold 17,435 here in New Zealand.

After processing the first sales reports from Monday, Nov. 23, that sum beats the single-week record for an album set by NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, which tallied 2,416,000 sales for the week ending on March 26, 2000.

Adele’s third album has also “has done the seemingly impossible”, according to Billboard magazine, and sold more than three million in one week in the US. “I think the lack of streaming is irrelevant”, Mr Talbot said.

It’s been a fantastic week for fans of the star, as not only have there been a series of fantastic performances from Adele – including this unbelievable rendition of “Hello” with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots – but she’s also announced a European tour, which will include a series of performances in the UK.