{"id":65902,"date":"2015-11-29T22:48:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=65902"},"modified":"2015-11-29T22:48:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T04:48:02","slug":"adeles-25-sells-record-breaking-3-38-million-copies-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/11\/29\/adeles-25-sells-record-breaking-3-38-million-copies-in-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Adele\u2019s \u201825\u2019 sells record breaking 3.38 million copies in first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_64121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64121\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64121\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot.jpg\" alt=\"Adele (Photo from Adele's website)\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/adele-25-packshot-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-64121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adele (Photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/adele.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adele&#8217;s website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Adele\u2019s new album \u201c25\u201d has sold 3.38 million copies in its first week, smashing single week sales records, according to Nielsen Music.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by Billboard, \u201c25\u201d is the first album to sell more than 3 million copies in one week in Nielsen\u2019s history, which has been tracking first week purchases since 1991. The previous record was held by \u2018NSYNC whose 2000 album \u201cNo Strings Attached\u201d sold 2.4 million copies in its first week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c25\u201d has also become the bestselling album of the year, flying past the 1.8 million copies sold of Taylor Swift&#8217;s \u201c1989.\u201d Adele did not allow streaming services like Spotify to make \u201c25\u201d available.<\/p>\n<p>Her previous album, \u201c21\u201d has sold 11.24 million copies in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 Adele\u2019s new album \u201c25\u201d has sold 3.38 million copies in its first week, smashing single week sales &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":64121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-65902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}