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Adele's 2011 album "21" won six Grammy awards and sold more
than 30 million copies worldwide, and the new release is
expected to be the biggest selling album of 2015.
An Adele fan posted on Twitter a photo on Tuesday of what looked
like the CD of the new album, claiming it was obtained at a
Target store. The fan, with the Twitter handle @HausofFrancis,
invited followers to "retweet if you want me to leak it."
The fan later posted what appeared to be a tweet from Adele's
record label, XL Recordings, ordering the removal of the
"infringing material" and threatening legal action.
"25 leaked and it wasn't me," @HausofFrancis tweeted on
Wednesday.
Target Corp said it was not responsible. "This is not a Target
album," the retailer said in a statement. Representatives for
independent label XL and for Adele, who recorded a concert in
New York City on Tuesday night, did not return requests for
comment.
In a separate case, two-minute snippets of all 11 tracks from
the album were reported to have been briefly available online
late on Tuesday through a British online record store. The link
had been taken down on Wednesday.
Billboard magazine estimated last month that "25" could sell up
to 1.8 million units in North America alone its first week on
sale.
The first single and music video from the album, "Hello,"
smashed digital sales records and views when they were
officially released last month.
A second single, "When We Were Young," was released on Tuesday
and has already been viewed more than 7 million times on
streaming platform Vevo.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Richard Chang)
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