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Adele's record-setting "25" album sold another 728,000 copies,
297,000 songs and was streamed 8.4 million times in the past week,
totaling 825,000 units according to figures from Nielsen SoundScan.
Adele's 2011 album "21," with which the singer swept six Grammy
awards, climbed four spots to No. 10 this week with sales of 49,000
units.
The soaring popularity for the 27-year-old singer's music comes as
tickets for her 56-date North America tour, her first in five years,
sold out in minutes when they went on sale last week.
No new entries cracked into the top 10 of the Billboard 200 albums
chart this week, as Adele's "25" outsold other artists including
Justin Bieber's "Purpose," which climbed one spot to No. 2, and
Coldplay's "A Head Full of Dreams," which dropped from No. 2 to No.
7.
On the Digital Songs chart, which measures online sales of singles,
"Mary Did You Know" by Jordan Smith, the winner of NBC's reality
singing show "The Voice," topped the chart with 161,000 downloads,
pushing Adele's ballad "Hello" to No. 2.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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