Adele’s super-selling 25 is now careening towards 10 million units sold worldwide, with the singer now comfortably crossing 8 million-mark. Just this (Friday) morning, Nielsen Soundscan revealed that 25 had sold 5 million units in the US alone, while UK sales rapidly close on 1.5 million.
Those are the heaviest-selling territories, though Canada and Germany are now crossing the 500,000- and 400,000-marks, respectively, for a combined total 7.5 million across the four countries alone. Separately, Australia is quickly approaching 300,000 units sold, a remarkably strong figure for a country of roughly 25 million inhabitants.
Here’s a quick country-by-country breakdown, rounding towards projected thresholds this weekend:
- United States: 5 million.
- United Kingdom: 1.5 million.
- Canada: 500,000
- Germany: 400,000
- Australia: 300,000
- Italy: 50,000
- Belgium: 50,000
- South Africa: 80,000
- Poland: 40,000
- Hungary, Japan, Korea, France, Spain: 100,000+ (estimated)
Running Total: 8.02 million
Looking ahead, 25 is likely to experience another surge ahead of Christmas, though unclear if how many consumers have already purchased the disc. Either way, this is solidly the best-selling album of the year, with 25 soon entering the pantheon of best-selling albums in history.
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I hope Adele feels at least a little bad about this. The middle-class in the music biz is gone.
Quite the contrary. Adele, Taylor Swift, Beyonce and others are leading the way to a market correction that is years overdue. Imagine the difference in artist earnings if artists had been windowing their releases on streaming services and services like Spotify and Pandora had been in the business of converting trial subscribers to paid subscribers.
I have to laugh at the guy from Pandora, blaming Jobs for the meltdown, although Pandora wasn’t creating the level of destruction of the unlimited ‘free’ music streaming sites.
“The Revenge of the One-percenters” is not a market correcting. It’s a market cratering.
Like the poor, 5-million selling titles have always been with us.
I actually agree with you. Maybe instead of her feeling bad, I hope she isn’t patting herself on the back too hard. She isn’t responsible for the fact that most people don’t want to pay for music anymore but she’s certainly lucky that she’s big enough that the one album a lot of people are willing to spend money on this year is hers.
Imagine how much less she would sell if it were streaming.