Adele's 21 sold 399,000 copies this past week, which is its biggest weekly total to date. The album sold 352K copies in its first week in February. This brings its total for the year-to-date to 5,679,000. 21 has sold more copies in a calendar year than any album since Usher's Confessions in 2004. (That blockbuster sold 7,979,000 copies that year.) 21 has sold more than twice as many copies as the #2 album for the year-to-date, Buble's Christmas. This will be only the second time in the Nielsen SoundScan era (which dates to 1991) that the #1 year's album has sold more than twice as many copies as the year's #2 album. In 2004, Confessions sold more than twice as many copies as the year's #2 album, Norah Jones' Feels Like Home (3,843,000).
Last week we knew 4 countries [520k] and she sold 706k, now we know 3 countries [657k] can she sell a Million?
Does anyone know when Canada's number are usually coming?
Diamond is based on shipments not sales so as '21' has actually sold 5.6 million so far the shipments will be over 6 million already. Definitely going diamond in 2012.
Diamond is based on shipments not sales so as '21' has actually sold 5.6 million so far the shipments will be over 6 million already. Definitely going diamond in 2012.