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The way people say Adele is doing it, as if she herself gives a flying flart about dates of cd singles or midweek singles charts :D

Indeed, so strange to say Ed is bigger in a conversation about album sales when Adele clearly has been by far and away the biggest album artist in the world and the UK for the last 10 years

How do you figure? As far as album sales go, which is what the conversation is about, Adele is a bigger selling album artist in the UK, US and Worldwide than Ed ain't she?

I wonder what the chances are of '30' ultimately outselling '19'. It is extremely unlikely to do it on pure sales, but even with streaming sales added it will have to eventually reach 2.6 million to outsell '19' which seems like a very tough ask in today sales climate.

I presume that considering this is a pure sales only list that nobody is likely to ever get another album into this top 30? Even Adele's 30 surely isn't going to have 2m+ pure sales in today's streaming climate is it?

Would I be right in saying that no album released within the last 2 years (24 months) has reached 500k in total? I'm going to go conservative and say 300k first week.

To mark 10 years since Adele's first album release, 19, I have compiled the following list, which makes for impressive reading. UK'S BIGGEST SELLING ALBUMS OF THE LAST DECADE (2008-2018) (The Adele era) 1 21 ADELE 5.1m 2 25 ADELE 3.4m 3 X ED SHEERAN 3.3m 4 CRAZY LOVE MICHAEL BUBLE 3.1m 5 THE FAME LADY GAGA 3.0m 6 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON 3.0m 7 ÷ ED SHEERAN 2.8m 8 CHRISTMAS MICHAEL BUBLE 2.7m 9 IN THE LONELY HOUR SAM SMITH 2.4m 10 19 ADELE 2.4m In the last few weeks 19 has overtaken Take That's Progress in this list, and then subsequently been overtaken by Sam Smith's ITLH. Although technically at the exact point of 19's 10 year anniversary (28th Jan), it may still have been just slightly ahead of ITLH, which would make it the 9th best seller in the 10 years since it's release. However as ITLH is almost exactly the same sales but selling substantially more per week at the moment, I have given it the benefit of the doubt. So over the last decade, Adele has the 1st, 2nd and 10th best selling albums in the UK, and only 5 (potentially 4) other artists in that time have had albums selling more than 19- Adele's lowest selling album.

^^^ This all seems very odd when 21 and 19 have never been in the budget album chart, even though they've been out for years, and 25 was still in the top 50. I don't really understand the motive.

Why would that have happened?

It will be interesting to see, and I could well be very wrong, but I don't personally think he will outsell his 2nd album, never mind Adele's 25. I just feel album sales have dipped so dramatically in the last 3 years that reaching 3m is an incredibly tough ask. 25 had to break all-time sales records all over the place to pass that mark.

Haha, they're all albums that are sitting around the #60 position in the list of biggest sellers of all time, I was interested to see what order they might currently lie in. Thankyou!

Could I have sales for the following albums please: Take That- Never Forget Ultimate Collection Adele- 19 Take That- Progress Snow Patrol- Eyes Open I know the last two might be old figures, but thanks anyway!

As successful as Ed is, he is not in the same league as Adele when it comes to global success. She has sold >50m with her last 2 albums, Ed has sold about 10m with his 2. In the US, X & + have sold <2.2m each. 19, 21 and 25 have sold 3m, 11.8m and 9.2m respectively. Even in the UK, you can completely ignore Adele's mammoth 21, and her 2 lesser selling albums still significantly outsell Ed's 2. This is not to do Ed down, he's phenomenally successful and will no doubt have further great success with ÷, just presenting a few facts.

Worst.Limerick.Ever :D

What has Adele sold? Wondering how much of a boost the Grammys has given her in the UK

Set Fire To The Rain by Adele. Almost everyone would recognise it and I'd say the average person on the street would think it was a #1, but it didn't even reach the top 10.

I think it's unlikely that Ed will sell the 2.7m he needs this year to reach the top 4, but it seems certain that 50% of the top 12 will be Adele and Ed albums.

Adele's 19 should be about 30k (or one years sales) away from a place in the top 60 of all time then. The only risk to her being kept out that I can see is Ed's ÷

^^ Okidokes, I thought it would be something like that. The OCC make so so many errors on such a regular basis that I'd be more inclined to go with Gezza's figure.

No doubt about it. It took Queen and Abba both 20 years to sell 5m. Adele has done it in less than 6. 21 was 870 copies shy of 5m with the 30th & 31st Dec still to go. Considering it has sold 2,432 in the 5 days since then, we can say with near certainty that it passed the 5m mark before the end of the year... on the very last day of the year.

How did you come by 4,200,200 total sales? The OCC put it on ~3.5m and 16th on all time list. Maybe I'm missing something?

Yes, I think the great thing about the trickle sales means that reaching the accolade of "Best selling studio album of all time" might be achievable in a couple of years, it has much higher trickle sales than The Beatles and is <150k behind. I think realistically that is the furthest it can get as Abba and Queen are extremely consistent sellers.

I've got a pocket full of cheese and a garden full of trees. *yells* IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!

Here is my opinion on 19's chances of entering the UK top 60 selling albums of all time: When the OCC released the list of the top 60 earlier this year, Take That's Progress was at #57 with ~2.38m Now, even if Adele's 19 overtakes, there are, I believe, 3 albums that have/will also overtake it and will stay ahead of 19. These are: Michael Bublé's Christmas, MJ's No.1s, and Robbie's Greatest Hits. So therefore, I believe 19 must sell 2.39m to *just* reach #60 all time. It has currently sold 2.35m, and is therefore about 40k, or around 1 year away.

Yes Adele's 21 holds the record for fastest to 4m by a long way. It overtook 25 in terms of 'sales rate' a week after 25 hit 3m, i.e. 25 is the fastest to 3m, but 21 is the fastest to 3.01m :lol: It will also be the fastest to 5m by a long long way when it hits the mark in a few weeks time, just 6 years after release. So Adele will hold fastest to 1m, 2m and 3m with one album, and fastest to 4m and 5m with another album. Pretty impressive.