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Yes they probably are. Either way, Hello is heading towards being Adele's 4th million seller in pure sales, as it will take it another couple of years to reach the mark.

No, I know what I meant. Sales+stream total for MYFML passed 1m in September 2015. I'm talking about sales alone. Make you feel my love had sold 955,055 pure sales just over a year ago, so if it has sold >800 copies per week since then, which having spent most of the year in the top 400 in the iTunes chart it should have, it will be over 1m in pure sales now.

Surely it should be Adele is heading for a 4th million seller- Someone Like You and Rolling have already been reported as having sold well over 1m downloads, and I'm absolutely sure Make You Feel My Love passed the mark in the last 6 months too.

Oh yes of course they are valid, but it still doesn't stop the frequently used prefix "poor" from seeming quite amusing. Nothing wrong with a little light banter :P

Hahaha, and poor Sean Paul couldn't give a monkeys what the OCC does or doesn't credit while he's swimming around in his pool of gold coins like Scrooge McDuck

Haha, yes I barely know anyone who would have heard of Tove Lo, especially people over the age of 30. Whereas Daniel O'Donnell is a name known by, I would say, every single adult in the whole island of Ireland, which has a population of 6.5 million people. Album sales from N.Ire go towards the UK chart, and there are many millions on mainland UK who know of him too.

Well firstly, your comment suggests that you think that Elvis only recorded a handful of songs in his life and that this album must therefore be essentially the same as last years. Elvis recorded and released about 45 original albums in his career, and hundreds and hundreds of songs. Last year's and this year's albums are tracks that have been recorded with a philharmonic orchestra, so they have quite a different sound to the original recordings of the songs. These orchestral albums could literally be released every year until the 2050s without repeating songs. As to why people are buying them- Elvis is the most iconic, most popular and most successful solo artist in history... that has a lot to do with it. CD albums are now Christmas presents more than anything else. About 20% of the UK's population (more than 10 million people) would have been teenagers when Elvis was alive, so for many people it would make an ideal Christmas present. Add to that there are many millions of people in their 20's, 30's and 40's who also love or at least enjoy the music of Elvis, there's no reason why they wouldn't enjoy this album. Radio 2 is the most listened to station in the UK by far, and they have heavily promoted and played both this and last year's album. Finally, it's a simple fact that people like shiny new things, and casual music fans who have a passing interest in Elvis or want to 'discover' Elvis, are much more likely to go out and buy a new CD that is on the front shelves of shops, has radio play and tv adverts, than try to choose from 1000's of online Elvis track options or root through a CD shop for a random Elvis greatest hits from years ago. Hope that's enough reasons as to why this album might sell a few hundred-thousand copies.

Doctor Blind- I believe you estimated "Hello" to be ~845k back at the start of May... It's sold ~150k sales+streams since then, would you estimate it therefore to be over 900k pure sales by now?

Hello by Adele was released less than a year ago, but I'm sure it must be very close to 900k paid for sales. It will surely be the last ever song (by release date) to sell 1 million copies

Update from OCC: Apologies for the confusion - the album has sold 2.26m.

Doesn't make any sense. It's not in the top 60 of all time list by the OCC, and therefore has sold <2.3m. Yet the OCC is saying the 2.62m figure *doesn't* include streaming. I don't get it.

Bound to sneak the #1 album then ahead of Adele.

^^ Well last year Bublé Christmas sold 143k (mostly at Christmas) Jackson #1s sold 92k Adele's 19 sold significantly less than both of those, so they will be ahead of her 19 album for the foreseeable future as they both will sell steadily this year again.

You would be 'seriously concerned'? I'm pretty sure neither my parents or brother would have ever heard of them, but I don't want you to worry, they're coping OK :P

Not quite, it's approaching 2.34m at the moment. Michael Jackson's #1's has sold 2.35m and didn't make the top 60. But I agree it did only miss out by a very fine margin. It should outsell 56-60 in the next year or so, but so will Bublé's Christmas and Jackson's #1s, so if nobody releases a new album selling more than 2.4m in the near future, it should *just* scrape into the next update of the top 60.

Adele misses out on being the only artist with 3 solo albums in the list by ~30k. 19 is in roughly 62nd position I believe.

Rolling in the Deep is known by almost everyone, young and old, and only reached #2 (Mind you, the average Joe in the street that doesn't follow charts would probably guess that "Set Fire to the Rain" was a #1, yet it didn't even break the top 10!)

All I Ask has already had a bit of promo and indeed would have spent a week at #13 in a paid for sales chart, so it's already had reasonable success as an album promo. I'd say Remedy or Water under the bridge seems likely to be a final single (if there is to be another single)

Depends how bad a stutter you might have.

The gap was 5k by end of Saturday too though, so it looks like it's not really closing. Certainly not quickly enough to overtake in the next 3 days.

Mintroyale just confirmed to me on Twitter that Zayn had only sold a few hundred more than James first DAY sales, so probably around 7-8k at best.

^^ At this point in time it is already past 2.8m

^^ Sorry no intention to be condescending, I just genuinely found it surprising. Also I live in Belfast, and there's enough Irish/British nationality confusion in this country without throwing Scottish into the mix hehehe :P

Oh my that geography is a tad worrying. Firstly the Belfast/Scotland part and secondly the is Scotland (2nd largest UK nation) part of UK sales. :huh:

Mintroyale has tweeted that Adele has now passed Jack Garrett to go to #1 in the UK midweeks.