As reported here, Adele‘s massive comeback album, ’25,’ was expected to move 750,000 units by end of tallying last week. If such feat was accomplished, the powerhouse diva would have crossed the 6 million sold threshold.
Now, on this side of tallying, we should’ve known better than to put any “ifs” in the equation.
Moving a whopping 825,000 units in its 4th week of availability (790,000 of which were pure sales), the project not only skipped right over that “6 million sold” mark, but now lays claim to a new sales record: ” first album to sell over 695,000 copies in four different weeks.” With the added sales boost, ’25’ also claims the title of “second best-selling album” of the decade, an honor that sees her eclipsed only by the sales of the top titleholder – herself with ’21’ (which re-entered the Billboard 200’s top 10 this week). Even its predecessor, ’19,’ has re-entered the top 40 this week.
Elsewhere on the Billboard 200, thanks to a few holiday-themed albums and reignited sales of some of the year’s favorite cuts, August Alsina and R. Kelly missed out on the top 10 completely (as we reported here). Get into the top 20 below:
Your thoughts?
Enough Adele ENOUGH!!! I can’t take this anymore!!! I can’t take the depression!!! I need uptempo on these charts!! Anti-Release/Anti-Multiplat needs to hurry and give us something
Ugh!!! This SLAYAGE is beyond anything we thought we could comprehend!!!
Trick it’s winter. Let these bums cry.
Your mother raised a real faggoott. If your father had cared enough to stick around for longer than it took for him to put his 2.5″ back inside his zipper he would probably be mortified at what flaming homo loser he created.
Comments has a sexuality. You my friend need to educate yourself. Now I’ll let your drown in your stupidity.
when will Beyonce bitvh? the self drag!!!!!!! hahahahaahahahahaha
Bitxh you are so desperate to get me for all those times i scalped your ass and threw you back into the abyss! Honey what self-drag!?!?! Did i ever say Bey was a blockbuster album seller!?!?! More like when will Moo Moo give us Adele numbers without her LABELS EXTREME INFLATIONS KIII!!!! Bye Linda don’t try it you already know how this plays out.
your fave could neva
I see Twenty One Pilots are still doing well. Glad Stressed Out is getting airplay.
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As for Adele, how can the pest say she’s over rated when 21 never left billboad? I haven’t seen someone kill the game like this since Usher’s Confessions.
Geez, the slay is unbelievable
The real winners are the record label execs.
But she wrote those songs and if I’m not mistaken, she’s on an inde label, Sony is the distributor.But I bet she’s making MORE money off the singles.
She’s on Columbia. The same label as Beyonce
I guess that one direction kid left at the right time, they seem to be….fading
Congratz Adele BTW I love to know who she was shading the other day. I see you Adele you ain’t slick
Ohhh are you talking about her saying if you’re going to tease an album for endless months or a year i won’t be checking for on release day. hmmm i wonder who she was talking about…
I actually think she was talking about Frank O. who she’s said she’s been waitin his album to drop
Has Frank Ocean been teasing music or hinting to new music if so please point me in the right direction i loved his album! Thank You!
Adele is humbling slaying all of the competition and breaking her own records in the process! Her next album should be called “The Queen!”
I wonder if this album will beat Shania Twains “Up” sales as the best selling album by a female artist of the 2000’s thus far?
Probably.
Also, we have 5 more years until the decade is over…
I wonder if an album will come out by then and beat her?
Who knows?
“Adele also states that her mother, who is very close to her, exposed her to the music of Aaliyah, Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, and Alicia Keys, all of whom inspired her as well.
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I’ll just leave this here.
I thought she was “Giselle-Hive” according to the hive, why is she missing on that list?
Well she did say DESTINY’S Children. So Beyonce AND Kelly, Michael, Ferret, Lasagna and LeToya was an influence. But I thought Aaliyah wasn’t a factor? In this big girl is British, so how did the “local, unknown” R&B act name making across the pond?
She has credited Beyonce as an influence for her. Y’all are so desperate to drag Adele on over to TheThotSide but she ain’t having it! She is happily in a relationship with her man and with child! She doesn’t need to be acting like some 16 year old child rebel b******* (rihanna) or be emotionally or mentally stuck in high school (T-Swizzle) hahahaha
Umm a big percentage of 25-30 year olds r&b/soul lovers grew up listening to Aaliyah, MJB, Lauryn Hill and A.Keys…. Your point? and please don’t let it have to do with Beyonce…. Please
Of course it has to do why Beyonce they’re obsessed. Theyre the same people who say ” people always checking for Rihanna when they don’t like her” I canttt
I didn’t mention that has been. So you lose.
25 deserves its success its a great album
Crazy af
Why is everybody so surprised that Adele grew up listening to R&B and Soul Music?
Adele is a cockney chick from North London; Tottenham. That is my area too. The majority of White Cockney Londoners LOVE R&B and Soul Music… Started in the 50s, 60s and 70s especially with jazz, motown and Reggae when the Black Caribbeans started migrating to the country in droves. Their are parts of London of which still has a LARGE CARIBBEAN/REGGAE culture. I’m White and my FAMILY love Soul music especially old soul and 90s r&b. Go to many English pubs and they still play the old soul and blues styles… LMAO.
i really appreciate that you acknowledge the influence. white people in america dont do that. they feel entitled to everything we do in our culture.
the slaying is unbelievable.
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unlike Beyonce, Adele doesnt have to put out rerelease after rerelease to get a multiplatinum albumm. she such a flop that relies on her rereleases to go multiplatinum. kiiii. SLAY Adele.
Why must you bitter bums always come for Bey? Damn go listen to that ancient christmas album by the bloated whale sis.
why do u care molly? dont u stan for Ciara the transgender ghost whisperer?
Merry Christmas re-entered and has a higher ranking on Billboard hot 200. So the Mariah Carey reads are not really a read. She is winning! Oh and the “bloated cow” is snatched in that waist, so yet another failed attempt at reading someone who is winning.
Now back to that self titled album that is getting slayed by “25”
6x platinum in a month. she makes beyonces self-titled look like a current ciara album sales. kiiiiiiiii
Hahaha ?
No one would be bringing Giselle up if you fleas didn’t go around screaming “QUEEN”, “ALBUM SELLER” and “WHEN WILL YOUR BASIC FAV” everywhere all the damn time.
hunny beyonce has to put out rereleases for every damn album out just to go multiplatinum unlike Adele but shes supposed to be an album seller? LMFAOOOOOO
“Queen” B lmao
https://media.giphy.com/media/xTiTnCAfGae3Uj3ec8/giphy.gif
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHaH
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girl that was hilarious. I caint!!!! BAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
Beyonce went from being “LOCAL” to being the STANDARD!! If you have to compare everyone to BEYONCE then she is the f****** QUEEN. BOW DOWN
Oh @LB but no on was talking about Beyonce in this post you brought her up as always. You and Mark bring up Beyonce in everyyy postt. I thought y’all said she was “LOCAL” now y’all singing ” she’s suppose to be the Queen song”. Lmao what happened?
Sorry…
But Adele is still a WHITE – ADULT CONTEMPORARY ARTIST whose fans mainly range between 25 – 45 and they buy albums (always have), along the younger crowd have very much gotten into her too because of the social media/digital world we live in and she is CONSTANTLY OVEREXPOSED by both the national and global media.
Beyonce is a BLACK Urban-R&B artist, fundamentally, with pop overtones and her fans mainly range between 18 – 35. She’s had to work EXTREMELY hard to get where she is and for her to be at a HIGHER popularity rate than Adele as she’s been in the industry longer and STILL as much as she does is amazing… and especially for a BLACK WOMAN.
TWO COMPLETELY DEMOGRAPHICS. You can’t compare.
Why does everyone feel the need to bring Beyonce or Rihanna down? They’re both a success.
I never hear of COUNTRY music fans debating about sales and whose better. I never hear if Carrie underwood fans constantly attacking and shading miranda lambert fans so why are Black fans doing it, or the idiotic ones at least?
Beyonce may never do Adele numbers of even Whitney and Michaels numbers (they were more Pop than Beyonce ever was and still is) but she’s still an icon and budding legend regardless.
bey has nothing to prove. shes been here over 20 years and hasnt scanned less than platinum yet! we’ll see if adele is relevant 20 years from now.
beyonce is local hunny. she goes multiplitinum in America but sells 4-5 milli WW? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
Most of her sales are in the US. So she sells LESS WW. Now that’s local. A fraction of Rihanna sales comes from the US. THAT’S why she’s an international super star.
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“It’s more important to sell worldwide and to have most of your sales come from around the world” -Matthew Knowles
hunny beyonce receipts are basic as f***. i die everytime they call her an album seller when she puts out rerelease to boost her flop album sales. most like gaga and rihaana sell millions with ONE ORIGINAL ALBUM. kiiii
But america is the NUMBER 1 market – everyone comes to the USA TO A MOVIE, MUSIC, TV AND EVEN SUPERMODEL. EVEN soccer players like Messi, Zlatan and beckham and ronaldo have tried to make it BIG in the USA, to no avail.
Gurl i keep scrolling down but you have so many stupid ass comments. You stay getting Aaliyah and Rihanna dragged! First Rihanna has re-releases as well. You lessers stay saying Bey needs to re-release to get millions! Girl Beyonce’s re-release are always a year after the album dropped which by then has already sold a minority of its numbers off the first album! Also beyonce has sold 31.5 milliin albums and 15 million of those sold are right here in the states! So how exactly is she local!?!?! Also out of her 118 million singles sold 49 million are sold right here kiii n the states Leaving over 60 million singles purchased else where. So one time Markeisha! HOW….EXACTLY….IS….THE….QUEEN….LOCAL!?!?!?!?
The mothafuckin EPIC SELF DRAG ON THESE FUXKING LESSERS KIIIIIIIIIII
LOL minority that should be Majority ? anyway y’all get it
“Time Magazine interview”…
Adele says …
She also chatted about the rumor about turning down a duet from fellow pop queen Beyonce. “Whoever started that rumor must have been having a laugh because anyone who knows me knows that my main priority in life outside of my child is Beyonce. I really wanted to do a duet on this album,” Adele revealed. “I spoke to someone about it who I wanted to do it with, and we got on like a house on fire, and then we just couldn’t logistically really get it to work. I can’t say who it is because I want to do it in the future. That’s the only reason. It wasn’t Beyonce!
Weren’t you guys doing the same thing when Gaga was popping, only to drag her a couple of eras later, we’ve seen this type of propaganda pieces before.
25 already sold 11 million cds WW. there goes Dangerously in Love down the drain. BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA. Oh i live.
LMAO stop
Lmao gurl you can throw all Moo Moos Cassette tapes down the drain as well because 21 outsold all her albums as well! Kiii this people is a self drag^^^ not this noob continuing and effortlessly scalping these alum thots ????
im just wondering when will the QUEEN OF POP/RNB and MUSIC according to beyhive will do these numbers. hunny she wont even do mileys bangerz numbers, unlike she put out ANOTHER RERELEASE. kiiiii
unless*******
Gurl stfu already the Hive nor Beyonce dubbed her The Queen of Pop and R&B. The WORLD MYSIC AWARDS DID!! They introduced her as The Queen during her performance and guess what she is!! What other R&B act is giving us Beyonce numbers/Tours/accolades???? What other R&B act has been consistent with relevancy since 1998???
” A fraction of Rihanna sales comes from the US. THAT’S why she’s an international super star”
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So why hasn’t the INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR manage to outsell Adele? I mean BEYONCE is LOCAL as you said so shouldn’t the INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR be outselling Adele? Lmaooo I can’t with the Navy
shouldnt the beyonce the “QUEEN” and “ALBUM SELLER” be outselling Adele? LMFAOOOOOOOOO
No one calls Rihanna a Queen, a god, Beyus or whatever you pest little brain can think of. She IS a IN SS because her hits are worldwide HITS and her album sales come from all over. No single market, if IF she flops in the states, she’ll still sell 3.5 million WW. Take Beyonce US sales away and let’s see how her sales would be.
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She sold out a stadium by her damn self, she didn’t step off a group’s success, she did it solo from jump. Bey could never.
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Have a nice day.
Chile.. If rihanna was as big as you thought she was she wouldn’t have been scared of releasing all year because of no major hit single. Your fave relies on hit ingles to sell her albums. She has only sold 26 mill albums with 7 releases yet she has sold 150mill singles. That’s what makes her a SINGLES artist. Yall claim that Adele and Taylor are slaying Beyonce yet all three artists outsold Rihanna’s last album. By the way how is Beyonce “local”? DIL sold 4.9mil in the u.s. and 11 mil ww. Bday sold 3 mil in the u.s. and 7 mil ww. IASF sold 3 mil in the u.s. and 8 mil ww. 4 sold 1.4 mil in the u.s. and 3.8 mil ww. Beyonce sold 2.3mil in the u.s. and 5 mil ww. She has sold 62 mil records in the u.s. and 150 mill records ww since her solo debut.
but I thought beyonce was an album seller tho.
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*pats the new wig and goes to rob the neighbors*
lol
Let me get this straight so according to the navy Beyonce is “LOCAL” and she can’t outsell Adele. Now their fav is the INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR with all the hits and yet she still can’t outsell Adele. I mean Rihanna should be the one outselling Adele ya know cause she’s a INTERNATIONAL SUPERSTAR! THE F****** SELF DRAG IM SCREAMINGGGGGG??????
LMFAOOOOOOO
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girl u is doing way tooo much. them laughs are NOT GENUINE and u isnt fooling anyone
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shouldnt beyonce the “QUEEN” and “ALBUM SELLER” be outselling Adele? LMFAOOOOOOOOO
@Mariah the legend
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February 1, 2015 at 12:36 am
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Picture full of ALBUM SELLERS! Lol
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2015/01/justin-timberlake-celebrates-birthday-beyonce-jay-z-taylor-swift/#ixzz3v62Oe7hh
bish where????????? I only see album seller taylor who goes multiplitinum WITHOUT a rerelease. them other h*** are basic as f***.
February 1, 2015 at 1:24 am
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B.S. First of all, Beyonce was still a bigger name than Taylor.
And the point is, you’re talking bullshyt if you say Beyonce is kissing Taylor’s ass to suck her up dry for her success
http://thatgrapejuice.net/2015/01/justin-timberlake-celebrates-birthday-beyonce-jay-z-taylor-swift/#ixzz3v62ufZoQ
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^^You say sh!t like this and then get mad when people call you out, you try for the gawds to prove an artist doing better than Giselle is kissing Giselle a$s, did it with Gags, did it with Taylor, did it with Drake, tried it with Rihanna but the navy wasn’t having any of it.
Just know that The Pink Brick sold less than Music Of The Sun.
QUEEN!!!!!
“Britney Spears and Mariah been out sold by Beyonce since her solo album.” -Pest
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Well Beyonce been outsold by Taylor and Adele since 2008.
DEATH!!!!
LMFAOOOO!!!!
Dangerously in love – released 2003, “Beyonce is black singing RnB, she has to work extra hard” – Pest
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Confessions – released 2004, crickets and tumbleweed from the pest
Anyway I sometimes think I’m way too hard on Giselle, she has songs I f*** with and remember I did buy every Beyonce album with the exception of B’day, though that album has a song I f*** with, such a tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbqVg_23otg
Oop! And I made the mistake of buying B0Day. Eww. Worst album of that year. MIND you, A Girl Like Me and The Evolution came out that same year.
B’Day was absolutely horrible, Irreplaceable saved that mess. The most generic album to come out that year.
@Mark Girl they’ve been calling Beyonce Queen for YEARSS and for MANY different reasons. Why are you so upset now by them calling her Queen now? You’re claiming Beyonce is “LOCAL” as hell and Rihanna is the international superstar (and her sales come from all over). Yet you’re dragging “LOCAL” Beyonce for not outselling Adele but no your fav Who’s international bwhahahahshsh.. Don’t y’all call Rihanna the New Queen Of Pop? Im dead at you trying to act like y’all don’t call her that????. Digital Queen ???
girl why is u dodging questions? You scared of me or something? kiiii
hunny its Christmas time and im feeling generous. imma give bitvh ass Sam a hit thread
CRYING!!!!!
death at this basic asss b**** recycling its tired ass read. LMAOOOO. I CAINT!!!!!
“No one calls Rihanna a Queen” Don’t yall call her the New Queen of POP?
” No one calls Rihanna a legend or compare her to them” weren’t y’all saying just the other day when those billboard all time charts came out that she was sitting with legends lamokslsododoo?????. The backtracking I’m screaming ???????
girl u is doing way tooo much. them laughs are NOT GENUINE and u aint fooling anyone.
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FOR THE THIRD TIME…….. shouldnt beyonce the “QUEEN” and “ALBUM SELLER” be outselling Adele? LMFAOOOOOOOOO
Anyways I’m done the backtracking is too much
death!!!!! this MsYonce b**** is dodging me. she clearly scared of me. BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA
“weren’t y’all saying just the other day when those billboard all time charts came out that she was sitting with legends lamokslsododoo?????. The backtracking I’m screaming
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But where was the lie, 13 #1s, up there with other legends who also have more than 10 #1s, over 150 million records sold, just like other legends with over 150 million record sales, I’m looking for a lie.
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Seated with legends, but not called a legend, there is a difference.
Most records sold, only under Madonna. Oh and those are certified record sales. 200 Million.
Find your fave on this list.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists
but Rihanna is up there with legends. i dont see any backtracking from King Mark111. death!!!!! this b**** is delusional as f***. LMAOOOO
http://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-hot-100-artists
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Look where Beyonce the “QUEEN” the “ALBUM SELLER” with her “LONGIVITY” is……. LMFAOOOOOOOO. I CAINT!!!!!
Mariah the REIGNING QUEEN OF THE SCAN ERA is #5
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http://www.billboard.com/charts/greatest-hot-100-artists
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WOOP WOOP
Lol, the navy clinging to Adele sales, yet she’s the one that made rihanna scared to release in “rihvember” you people are a joke. Mark and LB are beys #1 Stans. She stays on your mind more than any hive member I know.
Congrats to adele!
white people always have to have their own representation of something that another culture has. black people have jay z wayne and ice cube so they need eminem. we have kim and nicki so they needed iggy. we have janet so they needed madonna. we have prince so they needed boy george. we had mc hammer so they needed vanilla ice. we have aretha and patti so they need adele. we have maxwell and luther vandross so they needed justin and sam smith. the list goes on. They are trying to erase us! they are literally attempting jack our culture!
DEATH at that sacred ass Aaliyah stan who wants to come to another post and claim to.clock some tea! Gurl bye take your argument on over to Speaks and Danza who actually gave an intellectual point of view on things.
Good for Adele and she has good music song on her album 25
Sorry hive but Self tittled’s ww sales have been stuck at 5 million for a year now why haven’t they been updated? Hmmmm
Congratulations Adele! Get that copyright coin, get that Indie label royalty check, get all that money from just your voice and songwriting only! No endorsement, no theft of credit, no stripper pole, no music videos for all songs. Congrats. Get that SECOND Grammy AOTY to go along with your Oscar. 2016 is yours, no snippets.
1989 still dong well at number 9, even though the album is 60 plus weeks old, and still outselling new releases!!