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Adele Sets New Record For Second Week Sales With 25

12/04/2015
. (Scoop) Adele's 25 has surpassed 1 million U.S. album sales in its second week of release, making it the only album in Nielsen SoundScan history (since 1991) to sell at least one million copies in two separate weeks, according to Nielsen Music.

Last week, 25 made history by becoming the fastest-selling album in a single week (3.38million for the week ending 11.26). 25 became just the 20th album to sell at least a million copies in a single week (in Nielsen history) when it arrived with 3.38 million sold in the week ending Nov. 26. Until this week, no album had ever sold a million copies in more than one week.

With just under one day of data still being processed for the week ending 12.3.2015, while sales of 25 in its first week almost evenly split between physical and digital formats, sales in the second week have been driven largely by the physical format with more than 75% of sales coming from CD purchases, buoyed by strong Black Friday and Small Business Saturday activity.

Billboard is scheduled to report 25's final second-week sales on Sunday, Dec. 6, once Nielsen has finished processing the full week of data.

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