Its opening puts “25” easily atop the Billboard 200 and makes it the best-selling album of 2015 so far, besting Taylor Swift’s “1989,” which was released in 2014 and has sold nearly 2 million albums this year. (Sales of “25” are expected to be split about evenly between digital and hard copy.) Only 20 albums have ever sold more than a million copies in a week. That’s nearly a million more than the previous high mark for first-week sales - ’N Sync sold 2.4 million copies of “No Strings Attached” in 2000 - and makes “25” the first release to sell three million copies in a week since Nielsen (and previously SoundScan) began tallying hard sales data in 1991.Īdele’s coup comes in a climate far less hospitable to blockbusters: At the turn of the millennium, retailers were selling about 700 million CDs a year, while last year just 247 million albums were sold in CDs and downloads combined, according to Nielsen. The final numbers are in, and they confirm expectations: Adele is a phenomenon.īillboard reports that the singer’s new album, “25” (XL/Columbia), sold a record-shattering 3.38 million copies in the United States through its first week, according to Nielsen Music.
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