Adele's sensational new album '25' breaks all records and debuts selling a historic 5,7 million copies globally. Never before has an album sold so much in a single week! '25' has sold a whopping great 3,377,900 in the US in its first week, according to Nielsen Music, 800,300 in the UK according to Official Charts, 263,000 in Germany according to Medien Traffic, 169,700 in France according to SNEP, 305,900 in Canada according to Nielsen Music, 126,100 in Australia according to ARIA and 46,000 in Italy, according to FIMI. '25' is the best-selling Album of 2015, surpassing Taylor Swift's '1989', which sold 3,44 million copies this year so far. On the decade-chart (all album sales since January 2010) '25' rockets straight to no.18. Adele's monster LP sold more than all other albums of the current Top 40 together. The only part of the world where '25' is not selling like crazy is East Asia. In Japan, the second-biggest market in the world, '25' sold 'only' 13,000 copies. In comparison with that, in New Zealand, a very small market, the album moved 18,800 units, according to RIANZ.
Adele's former albums '21' and '19' both reenter the World's best-selling Albums chart with '21'back in the top 20 at no.8, with sales of 75,000, and '19'rising to no.20 after selling 44,000 copies this week, globally.
This week's second highest debut is the first best-of compilation by Japanese pop phenomenon AKB 48. '0 To 1 No Aida ~ Million Singles' sold 628,000 in its first week, enough for a no.2 entry. It's the second album release for the girl band this year. The studio set 'Koko Ga Rhodes Da, Koko De Tobe!' debuted with 747,000 copies in the week 6, 2015 and sold a total of nearly 800,000 so far. It ranks at no.34 on the year-to-date list.
Last week's no.1 debut, Justin Bieber's 'Purpose' slides from the top position to no.3 (down 58% to sales of 346,000) and One Direction's 'Made In The A.M.'slips from no.2 to no.4 (down 73% after selling 209,000 copies).
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