Adele’s ‘30’ Becomes Years Top-Selling Album in Just Three Days

variety.com:

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorTo the surprise of absolutely no one, Adele’s “30” is now the top-selling album of 2021 — and it achieved that feat in just three days.According to initial reports to MRC Data via Billboard, the album, which was released at 12 a.m.

ET on Friday, passed the half-million mark on Sunday — topping the total sales of any album released over the past 11 months combined in three days.It squashed the year’s previous top-seller, Taylor Swift’s “Evermore,” which has 462,000 copies sold through the week ending Nov.

18. (While that album was released last December, it remains a top-seller this year.)It also topped the previous one-week sales for the year, which was also held by Swift with her “Red (Taylor’s Version),”.