[Iceman]

We had an inkling, but Adele's 25 now officially has the UK's highest opening-week sales for an album... ever.

The singer's first album in nearly five years has shifted a massive 800,307 copies this week alone to claim the top spot in tremendous style.

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In fact, 25's sold more than the last 19 No.1 albums put together, and more than the rest of this week's Top 75 combined.

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Bet those elusive friends will be answering Adele's calls now, eh?

On top of that, the album's already gone 2x Platinum and managed the most downloads in a week of all time.

Adele's also seemingly given the rest of the music market a generous boost, with sales across the remainder of the Top 40 climbing 21% compared to last week, and 145% compared to average sales across the last ten weeks.

[Liam-]

She's unstoppable

[Gstar]

I thought this was real *hides face*

[Iceman]

Originally Posted by Germyle

I thought this was real *hides face*

[EspeonBB]

All these records broken... I can't

[Pete.]

Queen Adele

[Denver]

Phenominal sales Adele has proven its all about qaulity not quantity

[Iceman]

Adele's official numbers are in, and they are historic.
Adele's new album, "25," sold 3.38 million copies during its first week in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music.

That number is unprecedented. Adele beat the previous single sales-week record, held by *NSYNC's "No Strings Attached" from 2000, by nearly a million copies.

Adele's "25" was released on November 20 and has taken the music industry by storm. It is already the top selling album of the year.

"Back in 2000 when *NSYNC set the record for album sales in a week, the album was the dominant form of music consumption," said David Bakula, senior vice president of insights at Nielsen Music. "In 2000, there were 785 million albums sold in the U.S. and in 2015 we will likely see around 250 Million albums sold

[Pete.]

That's astonishing

[EspeonBB]

Poor Brit never stood a chance

[Denver]

Adele has sold 1 million copies of '25' in just 10 days

[Denver]

Forget about everywhere else Adele has finally hit #1 in Burkino Faso

[Jordan.]

All I've heard about is sales not whether it's actually any good or not

[Jake.]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

All I've heard about is sales not whether it's actually any good or not

"25 received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 77"

[Jordan.]

generally positive

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Jordan.

All I've heard about is sales not whether it's actually any good or not

If you ask me its her best to date

[Pete.]

It's underrated because people are comparing it to 21 but it's still great music

[EspeonBB]

21 is a lot better sry

[Brother Leon]

19 is still her best album and Hometown Glory her best song tbh. Still a solid album though.

[Smithy]

Flopped in Japan only got to 18 ((

[Jordan.]

An Avril collab coming for the Japan re-release?

[LukeB]

Expensive tickets for her tour

[Iceman]

Got my presale tickets!

[Iceman]

As reported on Dec. 5, Adele’s 25 album rules the Billboard 200 chart for a second week. The set earned 1.16 million equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 3 (down 67 percent), according to Nielsen Music. Of that figure, 1.11 million were in pure album sales (dipping 67 percent as well).

Adele's '25' Sells 1.11 Million in Second Week in U.S.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Dec. 19-dated chart (where Adele is No. 1) will be posted in full to Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Dec. 8.

In its first two weeks on sale, 25 sold 4.49 million copies. A week ago, the set blasted onto the Billboard 200 chart with 3.48 million equivalent album units — with 3.38 million of those in pure album sales.

To put the 4.49 million sales figure in perspective: 30 percent of all albums sold in the U.S. in the last two weeks have been 25 (4.49 million of the 14.8 million total copies sold).

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Also, 25 remains No. 1 on the Digital Albums chart for a second frame, as it sold another 236,000 downloads for the week. Its two-week digital sales tally stands at 1.88 million. It is now the third-largest selling digital album ever (jumping ahead of the 1.77 million of Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More). Adele already has the top selling digital album ever: 21, with 3.19 million. Taylor Swift’s 1989 is the second biggest selling digital set, with 2.31 million.

At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200 chart is Justin Bieber’s former No. 1, Purpose. It holds at No. 2 for a second week, shifting 211,000 units (down 27 percent).

Pentatonix’s holiday effort That’s Christmas to Me jumps 6-3 with 94,000 units. The album was released in 2014, finished that year as the top selling Christmas set, and was recently reissued with bonus tracks in time for the 2015 holiday season.

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One Direction’s Made in the A.M. slips one rung to No. 4 (82,000 units; down 25 percent) while Swift’s 1989 climbs 11-5 with 60,000 units (up 56 percent). 1989’s jump is owed in part to a significant gain in digital sales for the set: up 154 percent to 23,000 downloads for the week. 1989 was one of a number of sale-priced titles promoted in the iTunes Store during the tracking week, capitalizing on the Black Friday shopping holiday (Nov. 27, which was also the first day of the most recent tracking week). 1989 and other titles (like Carrie Underwood’s Storyteller and Fetty Wap’s self-titled set) were discounted to $6.99 for a limited time.

The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness falls 5-6 on the new Billboard 200 with 60,000 units (down 6 percent), Underwood’s Storyteller vaults 14-7 (48,000 units; up 51 percent) and Fetty Wap’s eponymous album climbs 10-8 (47,000 units; up 21 percent).

Michael Buble’s former No. 1 album, Christmas, returns to the top 10, as it rises 28-9 (41,000 units; up 77 percent). The album, which was released in 2011 and spent five weeks atop the list, has returned to the top 10 in every subsequent holiday season.

The Now 56 compilation closes out the top 10, as it ascends 12-10 with 40,000 units (up 7 percent).

[Denver]

Adele is planning to debut a new song by the end of her tour but needs to write it 1st