(NEW YORK) — Is Adele’s album 25 still #1? Uh, “Hello?” Of course it is.
The record-smashing disc tops the Billboard album chart for a third straight week, selling an additional 728,000 album units this past week, according to Nielsen Music. Of those, 695,000 were actual physical albums sold. That makes 25 the first album since 1991 to sell more than 650,000 copies in each of its first three weeks of release. The video for the lead single, “Hello,” has already been viewed more than 714 million times on YouTube.
25 has now sold 5.19 million copies, making it the biggest-selling album since 2011, when Adele’s previous album, 21, ended the calendar year with 5.82 million in sales. 25 will likely reach six million or more sales by December 31. The last time an album sold that many copies in a calendar year was 2004, when R&B singer Usher’s Confessions moved 7.98 million.
With those kind of numbers, rock band Coldplay had no chance of toppling Adele’s 25 from the #1 position. Their new album, A Head Full of Dreams, debuts at #2 with 210,000 album units. Their last four discs all debuted at #1. And happy anniversary to frontman Chris Martin and the band: their debut album, Parachutes, arrived on the Billboard album chart exactly 15 years ago.
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