British singer, Adele has broken the single-week U.S. album sales record in just four days with her new release “25,” Nielsen Music said on Tuesday.
Total sales for the album, released on Fri­day, have surpassed 2.43 million copies, smashing a 15-year-old record set by boy band NSync’s 2000 album “No Strings At­tached,” Nielsen said. The NSync album sold 2.41 million copies in its first week.
The huge Adele sales figures come at a time when artists rarely top 1 million in open­ing week sales because of the rise of online streaming of music.
Taylor Swift’s “1989” album was the last re­cord to achieve the milestone when it opened last year with nearly 1.3 million copies for the week.
Like Swift, Adele and her independent record company, XL Recordings decided to withhold “25” from streaming platforms such as Apple Inc’s Apple Music service, privately owned Spotify and Google Play.
“25” is Adele’s first album since her 2011 release “21,” which won six Grammy awards and sold more than 30 million copies world­wide.
The first single, “Hello,” which debuted last month has sold more than 2.5 million digital copies and has been on top of Billboard’s Dig­ital Songs chart for four consecutive weeks.
Source: THE SUN