Adele 25 on Billboard 200:Week 1: 3,480,000Week 2: 4,590,000 (+1.11M)Week 3: 5,285,000 (+695K)Week 4: 6,075,000 (+790K)Week 5: 7,235,000 (+1.16M)Week 6: 7,542,000 (+307K)Week 7: 7,736,000 (+194K)Week 8: 7,879,000 (+143K)Week 9: 8,026,000 (+147K) pic.twitter.com/kd11HgSSkR https://t.co/Yxq9lFG1YH
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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl will take over a 90% drop in sales during its second week according to Hits Daily Double. The album opened with an impressive 4 million copies, but will do 345K during its second week. That’s still a respectable and solid number, however coming from an artist that just opened with a historic opening week in the US…
For comparison, Adele’s 25 sold over a million copies during its second week in the US. The Tortured Poets Department opened with 2.61 million and did 439k during its second week, a 93% drop.
25 remains the biggest opening week for any album in UWC history, with 5.7 million copies sold worldwide.
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