Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Adele’s latest blockbuster was responsible for 3% of all albums sold in 2015.

In 2015, Adele released her “25” album. It sold 3.38 million copies in its first week of release in the U.S., setting a record for first-week sales.

However, Adele's sales figures are significantly lower than those of her previous album 25, released in 2015. That album, her third, opened with 800,000 first-week sales, which means 30 has sold ...

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Adele and Céline Dion both burst into tears after seeing each other at the Brit's Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at ...

Following the success of her 2008 debut album “19,” she went on to release “21” in 2011, “25” in 2015 and “30” in 2021. During her speech Thursday, Adele said that she sometimes ...

"When We Were Young," which came off Adele's 2015 album, 25, was no different from the rest of her songs in that it was a ...

MUNICH, GERMANY - AUGUST 02: (Exclusive Coverage) Adele performs onstage at ... on the list comes that set’s follow-up. 25 is back on the U.K. albums tally at No. 74 this frame.

The pair next shared a sweet embrace, hugging one another as Adele continued to belt the tune from her 2015 album 25. "I love ...

To put things into perspective, first-week album sales for Taylor Swift's "1989," for example, were half of what Adele is expected to sell for "25." So what makes Adele so special? In short ...