With Adele’s 25 presently projecting to 2.7-2.9m in first-week sales, blowing past NSYNC to set a new record—indeed,
the record will fall today, with three days of sales still to come this week.
Just as remarkably,
roughly half of the first-week numbers are coming from physical retailers. Target, with its exclusive expanded version, is leading the way, with more than half a million CDs already sold.
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