On November 19, 2021, a clerk at a Lei Jie video store in downtown London held Adele's new album "30".
(CNN news) With the latest album "30" in the United Kingdom and the United States at the same time won the title of the best-selling album of 2021, the name of British female singer Adele once again appeared in the British and American best-selling album charts in a record-breaking way with album release.
The album 30, released on November 19, 2021, is the fourth studio album released by the British female singer. Billboard retweeted a report from MRC Data, a provider of data analytics services in the entertainment industry, that just three days after its release, the album topped the U.S. 2021 best-selling album charts.
Including audio, video and singles downloaded online for a fee, the album 30 sold more than 660,000 copies, surpassing other well-known albums released this year.
According to The Internet data information website Official Charts, the album "30" sold 261,000 copies in the first week after its launch. Adele also topped the UK Albums Chart for the first time. The site also said the album became the second album to record the record since Ed Sheeran's album Division (÷) in 2017, which sold the highest number of first weeks.
"You really changed my life," Adele said, crying as she reunited with her teacher.
In addition, after the album "30" broke the record and became the best-selling album in the first week after its launch, its title song "Easy on Me" topped the UK singles chart for six consecutive weeks.
Internet data information website Official Charts also said that Adele was once the only female singer to achieve three or more studio albums to reach the top of the album charts. And now, the new album "30" has achieved her fourth time to reach the top of the charts, making this title more deserved.
However, the album "30" has not yet surpassed his third studio album "25". Throughout 2015, the album 25 has been the best-selling album in the US and UK – selling 800,000 copies in the UK and 3.3 million copies respectively.
Although the US album charts for the week have not yet been released as of press time, it is almost certain that the album "30" will dominate the charts for the third consecutive week. Previously, the album's title song "Easy on Me" has occupied the top spot on the Billboard Top 100 singles chart for four consecutive weeks.
In the United States, 560,000 copies of the album were sold physically; in the United Kingdom, the number of albums sold physically accounted for 67% of album sales in the country. These data reflect Adele's love for the regular way of enjoying music.
Although now, as a singer, Adele is willing to release it through a music website even at risk of reduced physical sales of her personal albums, although it still requires that the music website Sportify remove the free-to-play option as the default setting. But once, she avoided this way.
The album "30" received critical acclaim. In an interview with American Fashion magazine in October, Adele said she wanted to explain her divorce to her son through the new album. At the same time, the new album expresses his true thoughts in his heart, saying that he "will not give up launching a new album".