Adele's 25 outselling the rest of the Top 200 COMBINED
25, the third album from Adele, is currently out-selling the rest of the Top 200 combined this week by a comfortable margin of more than 100,000.
Music Week has looked at the data in today's midweeks, as the singer's latest LP becomes the second fastest-selling album in the UK since records began, overtaking Take That's Progress with four days yet to go in the chart week.
Adele has now sold 537,575 copies of 25 in three days. Not counting the No.1 spot, the rest of this week's Top 200 has a combined tally of 423,304 sales.
In comparison, Progess sold 519,000 in its first week of release in 2010. Oasis' Be Here Now still holds on to the title of fastest-selling album, with week one sales standing at 696,000. Adele now has to sell around 158,000 more copies to overtake the Britpop band and take the top spot.
The singer has already become the fastest-selling female solo artist, a title previously held by Susan Boyle after I Dreamed A Dream shifted 412,000 in its first week in 2009.