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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.