Success: Adele’s 25 becomes the US’s biggest selling album of the year

We knew Adele had broken a sales record for her newest album, “25”, but her sales also far outpaced those of the band that previously sold the most records in a week. Some industry forecasters suggest the album could sell another million copies in its second week, making it the first album to sell a million copies in more than one week. Pandora has the album available and that gives the service an edge over its rivals.

Adele uses her powerful voice and talent to tell us an authentic story that we can relate to across her songs. Of course, over a million of the 3.38 million copies were downloaded via iTunes, but the majority were physical sales. The sales record was held by *NSYNC, which sold more than 2.4 million copies of No Strings Attached (the album that featured Bye Bye Bye) the first week it was out back in 2000.

As you will have already guessed, Adele’s album is the biggest selling album of 2015, but seeing as it’s the biggest selling album in U.S. History, that was a given, right?

In the United Kingdom, “25” has also become the fastest selling album ever, shifting a whooping 800,307 copies, beating Oasis’s previous record of selling 737,000 copies of “Be Here Now” in 1997 in its first week.

Other singers to sell more than a million copies of a record in the first week include Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, as well as Lady Gaga and Eminem. One Direction’s “Made in the A.M.”, which was released on the same day as the Biebs’ latest LP, slips to No. 3 with 108,000 units. Despite her evident success, Adele’s down-to-earth personality made her even more endearing that fans continued to love her despite getting off the radar for a couple of years. If the listener can put their understandably high expectations aside, it is easy to recognise 25 as another milestone in the indomitable rise of Adele.

Undeniably, the equivalent album unit figure for 25 comprising of 3.48 million. At the 2012 Grammy Awards the singer took home every award – all six – that she was nominated for that year while promoting her second album 21; a list that included Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Record of the Year, and Song of the Year. Rather than scrambling for a new sound and traveling into a creative danger zone of trying to be something that she is not, the 27-year-old musician has produced an album that stays true to her trademark sound.