Congratulations to Adele, who makes a triumphant return to the Official Singles Chart with her new single Hello this week.
The track’s opening week combined sales are a staggering 333,000, making it the biggest Number 1 single in three years, since James Arthur’s X Factor winner’s single Impossible (490,000 sales) in December 2012.
The combined sales figure is made up of a huge 259,000 downloads plus a record-breaking, staggering 7.32 million streams, smashing the previous streaming record held by Justin Bieber’s What Do You Mean? by almost double. Bieber previously held the record with 3.87 million plays in a week last month.
Hello becomes Adele’s second Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, after 2011’s Someone Like You.
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Meanwhile, Justin Bieber is forced to settle for this week’s second highest new entry with his latest track Sorry. However the song shifted an impressive 102,000 combined sales in its opening week, including a massive 4.48 million streams, beating his own streaming record.
Further down this week’s tally, MNEK and Zara Larsson’s Never Forget You reaches a new peak at Number 11 for its fourth week in the Top 40, Macklemore jumps two spots to 14 with Downtown, and Little Mix’s Love Me Like You climbs four spots to 28.
01. 576,046 Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah [27 December 2008]
02. 571,992 Leona Lewis – A Moment Like This [30 December 2006]
03. 333,000 Adele - Hello [30 October 2015]
04. 311,887 Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah [03 January 2009]
05. 306,648 Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out of My Head [29 September 2001]
