Adele's "Hello' is No.1 globally for a 3rd week! The Song was released on 23 October as the lead single off Adele's album '25'. Upon its release, "Hello" received a triumphant response from music critics and the record buying public alike, going straight to number one in nearly every country and staying there for a 3rd week!
In the US, "Hello" entered at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on 2 November 2015. The Song also topped the Digital Songs chart with sales of 1,112,000, the first track to sell one million digital copies in a single week. "Hello" is the third highest weekly sales total since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991. Only Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight" has sold more in a single week, selling 3.446 million copies in its opening week and 1.212 million copies in its second week. "Hello" stayed at number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 for a second week, selling another 635,000 digital copies marking the third-best digital sales week and the highest for a non-debut week. "Hello" also held atop Streaming Songs with 47.4 million U.S. streams. The track also stayed atop the On-Demand Songs with 18.1 million streams. This third week, the song is still at the top of the Hot 100 and Digital Songs chart, selling 480,000 downloads and becoming just the third song to sell over 400,000 copies for three straight weeks.
"Hello" entered at the top of the UK Singles Chart on 30 October 2015 for the week dated 5 November 2015, with 333,000 combined sales, of which 259,000 were downloads, making it the biggest selling number-one single on the chart in three years. It marked Adele's second UK number-one single, after 2011's "Someone like You". Additionally, "Hello" was streamed 7.32 million times in its first week, breaking the streaming record previously held by Justin Bieber's "What Do You Mean?". Including streaming sales and excluding The X Factor and Pop Idol winners' singles, major charity campaign records and Christmas number ones, "Hello" is the second biggest selling number one of the 21st century in the UK, beaten only by Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me", which sold 345,000 copies in a week in February 2001. The following week the song remained at number one on the UK Singles Charts, selling a further 121,000 downloads and was streamed 5.78 million times, the same week the song was certified Gold by the BPI. The song also debuted at number one in Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Slovakia and Switzerland.
In Australia, "Hello" entered at the top of the ARIA Singles Chart on 31 October 2015, selling over 59,075 units, which earned the song a gold certification in its first week. "Hello" is still top of the ARIA Singles chart and is the second fastest-selling single of the year, behind Wiz Khalifa's "See You Again." "Hello' marks Adele's second number-one single on the ARIA Singles Chart following 2011's "Someone like You". In New Zealand, the song debuted at number one on the New Zealand singles chart, and has been certified platinum.
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