The British singer's 25 has sold 2.433 million copies in the USA since its Friday release, according to Nielsen Music. That
gives it the biggest sales week ever since Nielsen SoundScan started
tracking album sales in 1991. It bests the record previously set by
NSYNC's No Strings Attached, which debuted with 2.416 million copies in 2000, Billboard reports.
In just over three days, 25 is already the top-selling album of the year so far, outpacing the 1.8 million copies Taylor Swift's blockbuster 1989 has sold in 2015. (Swift's album, released last fall, has moved 5.4 million to date.) It's also sold nearly five times the copies of Justin Bieber's Purpose, which previously had the biggest first-week sales of any 2015 album with 522,000 albums sold since Nov. 13.
The numbers are even more impressive, considering that 25 does not have the added boost of streaming figures factored into its overall sales. (The album is not yet available on music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.)
Adele's sophomore effort 21 is also making a sales resurgence, having moved an additional 13,000 copies this past week for a grand total of 11.2 million in the USA since 2011. It was the top-selling album two years in a row, moving 5.8 million in 2011 and 4.4 million in 2012.
Adele's Hello is also the most-downloaded song of the past week, having sold an astounding 2.6 million copies since its late October release. She performed the single and new song When We Were Young on Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
In just over three days, 25 is already the top-selling album of the year so far, outpacing the 1.8 million copies Taylor Swift's blockbuster 1989 has sold in 2015. (Swift's album, released last fall, has moved 5.4 million to date.) It's also sold nearly five times the copies of Justin Bieber's Purpose, which previously had the biggest first-week sales of any 2015 album with 522,000 albums sold since Nov. 13.
The numbers are even more impressive, considering that 25 does not have the added boost of streaming figures factored into its overall sales. (The album is not yet available on music streaming services such as Spotify and Apple Music.)
Adele's sophomore effort 21 is also making a sales resurgence, having moved an additional 13,000 copies this past week for a grand total of 11.2 million in the USA since 2011. It was the top-selling album two years in a row, moving 5.8 million in 2011 and 4.4 million in 2012.
Adele's Hello is also the most-downloaded song of the past week, having sold an astounding 2.6 million copies since its late October release. She performed the single and new song When We Were Young on Saturday Night Live over the weekend.
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