(CNN)Adele has made different record-breaking instrumentality to the charts, arsenic her latest medium "30" claims the rubric of fastest-selling medium of 2021 successful some the US and the UK.
Released connected November 19, the British singer's 4th workplace medium besides became the astir palmy medium of the twelvemonth successful the US conscionable 3 days aft release, according to MRC information reported by Billboard.
Selling much than 660,000 equivalent medium units -- which includes audio and video streaming and idiosyncratic way income -- "30" has already triumphed implicit the different large releases of 2021.
In the UK, Adele debuted astatine the apical spot successful the albums chart, with first-week income of 261,000 according to the Official Charts, which said it was the biggest archetypal week for an medium since Ed Sheeran's "Divide" (÷) successful 2017.
The album's pb azygous "Easy connected Me" besides claimed a sixth consecutive week astatine fig 1 connected the UK singles chart, aft breaking the record for astir streams successful a azygous week aft its release.
The Official Charts said Adele was the only pistillate enactment with 3 oregon much workplace albums to scope fig 1 with each her records -- a rubric she has present cemented further with "30," which marks her 4th fig one.
However, "30" has not rather deed the heights of Adele's 3rd workplace album, "25," which became the fastest-selling medium of each clip successful some the US and the UK successful 2015 -- selling 800,000 copies successful the UK and 3.3 cardinal successful the US.
Although this week's medium illustration is yet to beryllium released successful the US, it is each but guaranteed that Adele volition assertion her 3rd consecutive fig 1 album, and "Easy connected Me" antecedently spent 4 weeks successful the apical spot of the Hot 100 singles chart.
The income figures bespeak Adele's emotion of accepted methods of listening to music, with 560,000 of the equivalent medium units sold successful the US being accepted medium sales, portion 67% of her income successful the UK were carnal sales.
The vocalist has shunned streaming successful the past, though she appears to person present embraced it astatine the hazard of little carnal income -- adjacent getting Spotify to region the shuffle button arsenic a default enactment for albums connected their platform.
"30" has received wide acclaim from critics, and Adele told American Vogue successful October that the medium was her mode of explaining her divorcement to her lad and was precise adjacent to her heart, saying she was "not letting spell of this one."
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