Adele's 'Hello' Broke Records after Selling 1 Million Tracks in Just a Week
Adele has just proven that her loyal fans did not abandon her, after her long break. Just after a week from releasing her latest single, which is titled "Hello," the British singer has now sold over 1 million digital copies.
According to Stuff New Zealand, Adele has now sold around 1.1 million digital songs, and has also broken the record on the Billboard charts, when her new song became the first single ever to break the 1 million download mark.
The website added that the 27-year-old singer has beaten Justin Bieber's record, who only had over 276,000 downloads for his single "Sorry." Adele's new digital download record was recently published according to Nielsen Music's data. The last best-selling digital song download in a single week, according to the outfit, was from rapper Flo Rida, whose song "Right Round" sold about 636,000 downloads in 2009.
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According to Reuters, "Hello" was now streamed for about 47.5 million times on Spotify, which also breaks the streaming website's record for the most streamed song over a week. Adele's accompanying music video for the single was also released on Vevo.com, and according to the report, it garnered 27 million views on the first day that it was released.
Billboard said that "Hello" is Adele's fourth "Billboard's Hot 100" number 1 song, and the first from her new album "25." Three of the singer's number 1 song on "Billboards' Hot 100" were from her last album, "21," and those are "Rolling in the Deep," "Someone Like You," and "Set Fire to the Rain."
According to the International Business Times, Adele's new album will be released this Nov. 20. The website also added that the British hitmaker may perform on next year's Brit Awards to celebrate the success of her new album. The Brit Awards is set to happen in London on Feb. 24, 2016.
