Susan Boyle chilling with the elites.

I assume the 10th would be Leona Lewis - Spirit? Which sold 375,872 in the first week?

Be interesting if she can do another 100k and join that list 😮

1 minute ago, 777666jason said:

Be interesting if she can do another 100k and join that list 😮

She'll be the first non-Brit in that list!

Is Michael Jackson’s Bad is the US artist record? I think that did 350K here.

3 minutes ago, Jordanlee1402 said:

Is Michael Jackson’s Bad is the US artist record? I think that did 350K here.

According to Alan's sales report from when TTPD was released the biggest is the scissor sisters at 288k well American at least

Edited October 6Oct 6 by 777666jason

13 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

According to Alan's sales report from when TTPD was released the biggest is the scissor sisters at 288k well American at least

I think that’s 21st Century! Michael did in fact open with 350k apparently!

4 minutes ago, Tafty said:

I think that’s 21st Century! Michael did in fact open with 350k apparently!

Yeah in not disputing it 😅 just going by the commentary, but she should probably smash Michael's record anyway

On 05/10/2025 at 10:26, musicfan97 said:

Although it is inevitable I really don’t want Adele’s record to be broken because she did that with just good old-fashioned sales and no variants. I think it’s more impressive that 3.3m people bought one copy than much less people buying anywhere between 1 and 20 copies.

Same here 😕 poor Adele

Must admit I didn’t expect 300k initially, I don’t think it’ll break 400k though. It’ll be interesting to see how it holds up compared to TTPD and Midnights next week. I think it’ll take 2-3 weeks to get past Sabrina for the top selling album this year.

Tbf i expected TTPD size with 300k max so this is doing crazy numbers

I honestly doubted her managing more than ttpd cos to me that was when she was at her peak during the eras tour! So to see her almost 100k ahead in the mids is insane to see! I do wish it was a better album pulling these numbers but still very happy for her!

On 05/10/2025 at 09:26, musicfan97 said:

Although it is inevitable I really don’t want Adele’s record to be broken because she did that with just good old-fashioned sales and no variants. I think it’s more impressive that 3.3m people bought one copy than much less people buying anywhere between 1 and 20 copies.

As someone who worked in HMV when '25' came out, I can confirm that people did in fact buy more than 1 copy... (and people have done for years and years and years before that!) Buying more than one copy of an album isn't a new concept. Ofc it's still an impressive feat and I'm clearly not saying everybody bought more than one copy - just saying that there were more than a few people who did buy more than one copy of that album, whether they bought multiple for themselves I obviously don't know (I know people irl who bought duplicate copies of albums for various reasons like 1 for their car and 1 for their home etc..)

But anyway, it's insane that we are seeing these levels again. I was starting to doubt we ever would (variants or not) tbh. Physical media (for the most part) is just at a real low right now and the only way artists get to boost their numbers is by releasing different variants (hence why different albums get random chart boosts sometimes when a new variant drops), but even then I didn't think we'd see 400k (or thereabouts) first week again.

It's quite insane how she just gets bigger and bigger each time!

3 minutes ago, Jessie Where said:

It's quite insane how she just gets bigger and bigger each time!

This! and she's 20 years into her career, 12th album... something that never heard before. Can't be more happier for her!

so, what do I win for being the only one predicting closer to 500k

As for adeles record just read something it seems most of us forgot and that she purposely left it off streaming for the first few months so the only way you could hear it was to buy it 😮

44 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

As for adeles record just read something it seems most of us forgot and that she purposely left it off streaming for the first few months so the only way you could hear it was to buy it 😮

Source?

17 minutes ago, Bleedin Heck said:

Source?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-35158114.amp

So it wasn't so "you had to buy it" as your alluding but rather it was a service that she wasn't convinced about 10 years ago, I noticed that swift was doing the same thing at the time, though her reasons were purely monetry.

You really just need to accept that Swift's latest album, with almost as twice many variants as songs on the Album, isn't going to match Week 1, 2 or 5 of "25"