"25," the third album by Adele, sold 3,378,000 copies in the first week after its release — handily breaking a single-week record that was previously set by *NSYNC in 2000.
"25" went on to sell 1,160,000 copies in its second week and 1,190,000 in its fifth week.
It remains the only album in history to sell 1 million copies in at least two different weeks.