Adele’s names her album with an age because she seals “each set of songs into a time capsule of every various Adele era.” (Photo : YouTube)
Adele's "Hello" may have been dislodged from the top position on the Official Chart for singles by Justin Bieber's "Sorry" which broke records with 5.35 million streams, but insofar as her album "25" is concerned, she also could break records.
Variety reports that Billboard expects the album to sell 2.5 million copies which would break NSYNC's one-week U.S. album sales record of 2.42 million. In iTunes Store alone, "25" sold 900,000 copies, according to Billboard.
The 2.42 million record is held by NSYNC's "No Strings Attached" when it was launched in 2000, according to Nielsen which started to monitor album sales since 1991. It is the only album that have sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S. on its first week of release.
If Billboard's forecast who happen, Adele's third studio album would also break the 1.7 million copies sold by Taylor Swift's "1989" album released in 2015.
Adele's second album, "21" was also a bestseller. When it was released in 2011 - a year before the Brit singer gave birth to son Angelo - it was number 1 on Nielsen's U.S. album sales chart for 24 straight weeks. It sold a total of 11.23 million copies in the U.S.
At the rate Adele is promoting "25" such as her guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" and the BBC special where she pranked her impersonators, chances of Adele breaking "21's" and "No Strings Attached" records are likely, music experts say.
