Sales of Adele’s ’25’ are poised to break record in first week

The album “25” marks a great comeback from Adele following her previous album “21” which sold more than 30 million copies and purchased seven Grammy awards five years ago.

Adele’s last album, 21, was led by the raw intimacy of the heartache song “Someone Like You”.

By contrast, Ms Adkins’s latest offering sold more discs and downloads than that in its first day alone.

Her third album, 25, sold a staggering 800,307 copies this week, giving her the highest opening week sales in Official Chart history. The Oasis figure comes from only three days’ sales, because Be Here Now was released on a Thursday in its debut chart week; and Adele’s figure includes digital as well as physical sales.

“Hello it’s me, Adele” she said with a laugh in a video.

In the United Kingdom, The Guardian reports, the British singer’s “25” is also making headway toward being the fastest-selling album, having sold over 538,000 copies.

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 has been at the center of the streaming music debate when she held “25, which was released last Friday, from streaming music services like Apple Music and Spotify”.

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.

Adele’s “25” is now the talk of the town, and after breaking records within the first week of its release, the British songwriter’s newest album has added yet another feather in its cap. A number of artists have had especially impressive years in terms of album sales although none of them are likely to have serious play for second place on the year-end list.

If you have a television or even very occasional access to the internet, you are probably aware that Adele released a new album on November 20.

Adele, mother of one, also beat Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” for most YouTube views as her smash hit Hello has garnered over 490 million views thus far.