Adele’s ‘Easy On Me’ breaks chart record with highest first-week single sales in four years

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Adele‘s new single ‘Easy On Me‘ has shot straight to Number One in the UK singles chart.The singer’s third chart topping single clocked up a massive 217,300 chart sales in its first week – the highest week one figure since Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape Of You’, earned 226,800 back in January 2017.Adele also broke another chart record with the track racking up 24million streams in the UK this week – topping Ariana Grande’s record of 16.9million set back in January 2019 with ‘7 Rings’.‘Easy On Me’, her first single in five years, also earns the biggest week of digital download sales of 2021 so far, with 23,500 according to the Official Charts Company.The single also saw two of her earlier hits climb back into the Top 40 with ‘When We Were Young’ coming.