Adele‘s latest album, 30, was highly anticipated, and it breaking records already in the UK, positioning itself on the top of the charts.
If you haven’t listened to Adele’s latest album, grab a tissue and get on with it. The singer-songwriter debuted her fourth studio album on November 19, and it’s breaking records already.
Hardly surprising, after a six-year break, Adele’s album 30 is breaking records after debuting at #1 in the UK.
Her first week’s sales reached 261,000 copies, and it scores the biggest opening week of 2021 in the UK, overtaking ABBA’s album Voyage, which reached 204,000.
But that’s not all, because Adele reached another milestone, her album having the biggest first week for an album since Ed Sheeran’s Divide in 2017. It’s also the biggest opening week for a female solo album since her last album, 25, which she premiered in 2015.
Besides having 67% physical sales, her album 30 is also the most-streamed album of the week in the UK with a staggering 55.7 million streams across its 12 tracks.
Adele also reached the rare Official Chart Double as her official single “Easy On Me” sits at Number One on the Official Singles Chart for a sixth consecutive week. The track is now Adele’s longest-running Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, overpassing “Someone Like You,” who spent 5 weeks on the top.
Congratulations to Adele, and we hope it won’t be six more years until she decides to release an album again.
