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History is made! Adele manages to sell a massive 3.38 million albums in first week of sales in US

Adele has broken yet another record this week thanks to her new album 25. Back in October, t...
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14.30 29 Nov 2015


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History is made! Adele manages to sell a massive 3.38 million albums in first week of sales in US

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14.30 29 Nov 2015


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Adele has broken yet another record this week thanks to her new album 25.

Back in October, the album's first single "Hello" was watched a staggering 27.7 million times on Vivo in the space of only 24 hours, breaking the previous record holder, Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" by over seven million views.

Earlier this week, it was announced by U.S. music site Billboard that Adele's 25 album has sold 900,000 copies on iTunes on it's first day of sales alone.

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Last night, Billboard announced the singer sold a whopping 3.38 million copies in its first week in the U.S, the largest first week of sales ever in the States.

The record has held film since 2000, when boy-band 'NSync released No Strings Attached and sold 2.42 million copies in one week off the back of the hit singles "Bye Bye Bye" and "It's Gonna Be Me".

Since the Nielsen album sales tracking began in 2001, here are the Top Ten one-week album sales in the U.S. to date. Expect to see Adele's new one in there by the end of the week:

1. 'NSync No Strings Attached (2000) - 2,415,859

2. 'NSync Celebrity (2001) - 1,879,955

3. Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP (2000) - 1,760,049

4. Backstreet Boys Black & Blue (2000) - 1,591,191

5. Britney Spears Oops!.... I Did It Again (2000) - 1,319,193

6. Taylor Swift 1989 (2014) - 1,287,000

7. Taylor Swift Red (2012) - 1,208,000

8. 50 Cent The Massacre (2005) - 1,140,638

9. Backstreet Boys Millenium (1999) - 1,133,505

10. Lady Gaga Born This Way (2011) - 1,108,000


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