Adele will absolutely smash sales and would be shocked to see her do less than 550k in her opening week - I know the market is 'different' to what it was but so is Adele different to everyone else out there and totally cuts through generations and genres. The fact that the single alone has sent her previous 4.7 million selling album back into the Top 15 goes some way in showing how much excitement there is for this - Monster sales and will be #1 well into the new year.

Definitely more than 500k...and also I don't get how the most of you people are predicting this to sell more than 500k first week and 'only' 1-1.25 until the end of the year?

 

Aren't sales HUGE Nov-Dec (especially 3 weeks before Xmas)?!!! I think she will finish the year with 2.15 million copies

Awful predictions as usual but 99 billion 250-300k, 750-1000k and a never ending run of 9 weeks at #1 initially (although I'm guessing it'll be a lot more as it'll keep returning to #1)

I'm going for.... First week sales of 670k! And i think it will sell around 2 million copies this year alone... I also think in two years time this will be the highest selling uk album of all time.

It sounds crazy but I think it's time to stop underestimating everything adele releases.

I can see this maybe grabbing 3-4 weeks at #1 initially and her performing something else from it on a big primetime slot in December to send it back to #1 for a few weeks over Christmas.

She has the YE #1 on lock, it will probably take just 3 weeks...

Predictions:

 

Around 550,000 opening sales

Around 1,450,000 by end of the year

14+ weeks at #1. Can see it being #1 for a lot of 2016.

BBC special coming.

 

From BBC News.

 

Pop star Adele is to be grilled by Graham Norton in a special, hour-long BBC One show as she prepares to release her third album, 25.

 

The singer, who is following up the 30 million-selling 21, will also play some of her new songs for the first time.

 

"Adele at the BBC" will be her first television appearance since performing Skyfall at the 2013 Oscar ceremony.

 

"I can't wait," said the star. "Graham and I get on great so it's going to be a laugh."

 

Calling Adele's new album "the music event of the year," Norton added: "This opportunity to spend an hour with Adele, her music and her stories is a truly rare treat.

 

"If I wasn't hosting this special I'd be sat at home watching it."

 

The show will be taped in front of a live audience on 2 November. Tickets will be allocated via a ballot, and applications are open now on the BBC Music website.

 

A transmission date for the show has yet to confirmed.

Her last album opened with 205,000 and that was in February. There is such a buzz about her at the moment surely she will pass 400-450k within first week and by year end if not before she will surpass one million sales ! Hello is probably gonna sell 300k pass today , that's a crazy amount for a single that's just dropped fromnowhere!

Edited October 30, 20159 yr by Mart123

333,000 for hello! And over seven million streams and that's just the single! This album is gonna go wild when it's out!!

Am I alone in now wondering if Adele could do the unthinkable - sell 1 million copies on her first week? :unsure:

Am I alone in now wondering if Adele could do the unthinkable - sell 1 million copies on her first week? :unsure:

 

Wonder that be amazing ! I don't think it will do it in just a week though ! It will in the US!

Am I alone in now wondering if Adele could do the unthinkable - sell 1 million copies on her first week? :unsure:

 

 

We are polar opposites - I am thinking between 200-300k first week.

333,000 for hello! And over seven million streams and that's just the single! This album is gonna go wild when it's out!!

 

 

Hope the big supermarkets have ordered enough in for first week's sales. Don't want to pay the extra postage for Amazon, unless a Deluxe is announced before 20th.

I'll say a minimum of 500k; with a good chance of surpassing Progress for the fastest selling album of the decade. Her hype is enormous right now.

I don't believe there will be a middle ground with Adele on opening week. 25 will either sell far less than most people expect (200,000-250,000) or she will sell something crazy in the lines of 1 million.

 

It is great to see such anticipation around sales, its been a while since the anticipation was so high for a new release relating to how big it will sell.

Edited October 30, 20159 yr by pippa

I can see her doing at least 500k. If the single has done 333k and she's such a huge album sales, this will be stratospheric!

I'm gonna say 520k first week for this!

If the reviews are positive it could be really bolster sales from the music fans who follow the music press a bit more.

I've said before around the 710-730k mark for the opening week sales,

It won't be under 500k I'm sure... 1 million is just crazy but the fact it's been mentioned in a serious discussion is a credit to adele, but its out of reach I think.

I think it may break n sync's no strings attached album sales record in the US... 2.1 million I think.