Female singer
Adele's new album sold more than eight-hundred thousand copies in its first
week of release - the highest ever figure for a single UK chart week.
The album
shifted more copies than the next 86 albums in the chart combined, and has
become the first album to sell more than 100,000 downloads in a week.
In fact,
252,423 of the album's 800,307 sales were digital with the rest on CD.
Official
Charts Company chief executive Martin Talbot said: "The statistics
surrounding the album are staggering."
He added:
"No album has ever sold 800,000 copies to reach number one in the history
of British music."
The previous
record was held by Oasis's Be Here Now, which reached number one with sales of
696,000 in 1997. However that album only went on sale three days before the end
of the chart week.
Shame on apple for rejecting Adele's music
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