Adele’s "25" made music sales history, earned a milestone debut on the Billboard 200 chart, and instantly became the year’s top selling album in the U.S. in just one week (with 3.38 million sold!). And that’s just three statistics behind "25’s" huge arrival. Here are some more fun facts and figures associated with "25’s" big bow

Adele’s "25" made music sales history, earned a milestone debut on the Billboard 200 chart, and instantly became the year’s top selling album in the U.S. in just one week (with 3.38 million sold!). And that’s just three statistics behind "25’s" huge arrival. Here are some more fun facts and figures associated with "25’s" big bow

3.38 Million Sold: Total number of copies 25 sold in the U.S. in its debut week (ending Nov. 26) according to Nielsen Music. That’s the largest sales week for an album since Nielsen began tracking point-of-sale music purchases in 1991. (It beats the previous record, held by *NSYNC’s No Strings Attached, when it debuted with 2.42 million sold in the week ending March 26, 2000.) 25 is also the only album to sell more than 3 million copies in a week.

41 Percent of All Albums Sold Last Week Were 25: In total for the week, there were 8.2 million albums sold in the U.S. Thus, 25’s 3.38 million represented 41 percent of all albums sold in America. Weekly U.S. album sales between late August and mid-November fluctuated between 3.5 million and 4.2 million per week. The lowest week in Nielsen history for album sales was the frame ending Sept. 17, when only 3.51 million albums were sold.
市场占比41% 本周美国市场专辑总销量820万
如果不是25发行 通常这个时候的专辑总销量在350-420万之间
Soundscan统计的专辑销量最低纪录 是今年9.17那周 总销量仅351万

335 Copies Sold Per Minute: With 10,080 minutes in a week, 25 sold about 335 copies per minute in the U.S. during its first week on sale.
在美国 本周平均每分钟售出335张25

25 Sold More than Twice the Combined Total of the Nos. 2-100 Titles on Top Album Sales Chart: 25 debuts at No. 1 on the Top Album Sales chart, and its enormous sales are more than double the rest of the chart combined. Nos. 2 (Justin Bieber’s Purpose, with 184,000) through 100 (the Descendants soundtrack, with 5,000) sold 1.48 million for the week.
25本周美国销量 比本周美国专辑榜第2到第100名专辑销量总和的两倍还多
第二名是B宝的18万4 第100名是Descendants电影原声 销量5000
第二到第100名 累计销量仅148万

1.71 Million CDs: Of its total 3.38 million sold, 25 moved 1.71 million copies on compact disc. To put that figure in perspective, 25 comprised 38 percent of all albums sold on CD in the week ending Nov. 26 (4.54 million).
25美国首周售出171万实体CD
占本周美国CD总销量的38% 本周美国CD总销量454万

1.64 Million Digital Albums: 25 opens with 1.64 million digital copies sold, a new single-week download sales record for an album. It beats the previous record-holder by nearly a million copies: Lady Gaga’s Born This Way, when it arrived with 662,000 digital copies sold in the week ending May 29, 2011.
25美国首周售出164万数字专辑 创下新的数字专单周销售纪录
之前的纪录是Lady Gaga的专辑Born This Way 首周数字专辑销量66万2

49 Percent of All Digital Albums Sold Last Week Were 25: In total for the week, there were 3.43 million digital albums sold. 25’s 1.64 million downloads equate to 49 percent of all digital albums for the week.
25美国数字专辑首周销量 占美国本周数字专辑总销量的49%
本周美国数字专辑总销量343万

22,000 Vinyl Albums Sold: 25 sold 22,000 copies on vinyl LP -- the third-largest sales week in Nielsen history for an album on vinyl. Only the debut weeks of Jack White’s Lazaretto (40,000) and Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy (34,000) were larger.
黑胶碟销量 美国首周2万2 史上上第三首周
仅次于Jake White专辑Lazaretto的4万 珍珠果酱乐队的3万4

exact US numbers:
ADELE|25 ( 1) 3377885 200936 17393 1289428 1870129