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Total sales for the album, released on Friday, have surpassed
2.43 million copies, smashing a 15-year-old record set by boy
band NSync's 2000 album "No Strings Attached," Nielsen said. The
NSync album sold 2.41 million copies in its first week.
The huge Adele sales figures come at a time when artists rarely
top 1 million in opening week sales because of the rise of
online streaming of music.
Taylor Swift's "1989" album was the last record to achieve the
milestone when it opened last year with nearly 1.3 million
copies for the week.
Like Swift, Adele and her independent record company XL
Recordings decided to withhold "25" from streaming platforms
such as Apple Inc's Apple Music service, privately owned Spotify
and Google Play.
"25" is Adele's first album since her 2011 release "21," which
won six Grammy awards and sold more than 30 million copies
worldwide.
The first single, "Hello," which debuted last month has sold
more than 2.5 million digital copies and has been on top of
Billboard's Digital Songs chart for four consecutive weeks.
"25" sales data for the first full week will be released by
Nielsen on Nov. 30.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Alan Crosby)
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