Adele’s ’30’ scores biggest opening sales of 2021 in US
Adele‘s new album ’30’ has opened at the top of the US charts, with 839,000 equivalent album units sold, according to MRC Data.This marks the biggest opening sales of 2021, landing ahead of Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy‘, which opened with 613,000 units in September.The US figures comprise 692,000 album sales (487,000 physical albums and 205,000 digital albums), as well as 141,000 SEA units (based on 185.4 million streams) and 6,000 TEA (track equivalent albums). This makes ’30’ the biggest selling album of the year to date in the US.Last week, Adele also shot straight to the top spot in the UK with her fourth LP, which became the fastest selling record of 2021 so far after clocking up 261,000 sales.