Adele's new album, '25' is breaking sales records around the world. In the United States, the British singer's comeback album has sold more than three million copies in the first week of its release, according to the Nielsen SoundScan tracking system. With this new work, Adele has set a new record for copies sold in its first week of release, according to Nielsen records dating back to 1991. Also '25' is the first album to have sold more than three million copies. in a week, according to the Nielsen Holdings system.
With these numbers (3,48 million), Adele's album has surpassed top seller history, NSYNC's 'No String Attached', which reached 2,42 million copies sold in the first week of 2000. In this decade, the top seller had been Taylor Swift's album '1989'. which went on to sell 1,8 million copies in the first week and dominated the charts in the 2014 holiday season.
'25' represents Adele's return after a hiatus of almost five, since the release of '21' in January 2011, work that became the best-selling album in the United States for two years in a row and the most successful album. so far in the 20st century in the UK. Adele's third studio album was released worldwide on November 1 in physical format (CD) and digital download, and its sales follow-up (26st week) closed on November XNUMX, prior to the so-called Black Friday . In the UK it is also expected to break records, '25' has sold more than half a million copies in its first 3 days of sale. The best brand in this country was the album 'Be Here Now' by Oasis, which reached 700 thousand copies during the first week of sales in 1997.