Adele’s 25 becomes the fastest 2 million-selling album in UK chart history
Adele’s 25 is today set to become the fastest 2 million-selling album in UK music history, smashing all previous records.
By last night (December 17), the singer’s third album had reached 1.970 million sales, having sold between 46,000 and 61,000 copies a day for the past week. Barring a massive (and highly unlikely) collapse in sales, it will hit the 2 million mark sometime this afternoon – just its 29th day on sale.
MORE: See this week's Top 100 Official Albums Chart in full
In comparison, Adele’s 21 (the second biggest selling studio album in history) took 13 weeks to reach the 2 million mark.
At its current rate of sales, 21 is likely to pass the 2.5 million sales by the end of the year – also in record time and putting it into the Top 40 biggest selling studio albums of all time in the UK.
Chart records indicate that the closest rival to Adele is Robson & Jerome’s 1995 debut album. Records from the time indicate that it took 42 days to reach the 2 million landmark.
Unsurprisingly, 25 continues to lead this week’s Official Albums Chart, logging a fourth consecutive week at Number 1.
MORE: See where all of Adele's singles and albums have charted in the UK
Elsewhere on this week’s tally, Elvis Presley scores his strongest sales week yet with his If I Can Dream Album, notching up combined sales of 121,000 for its seventh week on the tally, climbing a place to Number 2 this week.
Coldplay’s A Head Full Of Dreams slips to 3, Justin Bieber’s Purpose holds at 4 and Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh completes this week’s Top 5.
With few new releases out this week, there are no new entries in this week’s Top 40, though a number of albums have re-entered: Hozier’s self-titled debut (up 20 places to 30), Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott’s Wisdom Laughter And Lines (up 19 spots to 35), ELO’s All Over The World (up 5 to 37), and Ben Haenow’s self-titled (up 4 to 40).
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etin
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agnusdeitr
Elvis beating Coldplay, and next to Adele as a dead person for 38 years? Ok... That's the success!!!
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Mats
Jesus - I´m not a huge Elvis fan but the man has been dead for 38 years!! Climbs to no 2 passing Coldplay! Well I guess there´s a reason they call him the king - the man has sold over one billion!! records worlwide. Coldplay is my favourite though.
Johnny McVey
1 billion? I think it's closer to 600 million
Lloyd Boon
if you go to Graceland and walk through the building that has all of his silver/gold and platinum awards on the walls there is one from the RIAA acknowledging world wide album sales passing the one billion mark sometime around 2002.
MrRamyon74
Who could have predicted this level of success? It has sold 6 million in the US and over 1 million in Germany already too...
omeri
Disque de diamant en France avec plus de 500 000 exemplaires vendus en 4 semaines.
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Seb
that'd be 25 which is going to pass 2.5 million, not 21
BABY DOLLARD
Oh God, she is so overrated !! She has a great voice ...fair enough but no tune...all of her songs are forgettable...with no great chorus....like the best female vocals: CELINE DION, WHITNEY OR MARIAH CAREY!!...2015: people will buy any nowadays!!
MusicFan2017
forgettable for you. But clearly alot of people disagree with your view of her music.
MrRamyon74
Is that you Noel?
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Anthony Brennan
Lol Noel, don't you have other women to be making fun of?
etin
you are right. she is just a fashion nowadays
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Frigorifero Romano
No one remembers songs from Mariah Carey, besides the Christmas one!
You know you're gonna listen to autotune or playback when Mariah Carey is on stage in 2015.