And the promo has just BEGUN
Seriously, who are people trying so hard to denigrate this success? There is NO ARTIST today pulling these numbers. Everyone's faves have been stomped into the ground. Most artists would be happy to pull a tenth of these sales in their first week, half in an album's lifetime. Just sit back and accept that Adele has tapped something in the culture's conscience that is so powerful that she is practically a music industry onto herself.